Prof. Kingsley Moghalu, the President of the African School of Governance, has joined the Board of Directors of the International Security Conference on Africa – ISCA. Moghalu’s nomination to the Board of the continental African Security Conference came during the ISCA’s inaugural conference at Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. The ISCA board is chaired by Clotilde Mbaranga Gasarabwe, who had served as an Assistant Secretary-General for Security Services, at the United Nations. Other members of...

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has issued a directive to all Nigerian universities, ordering an immediate stop to the practice of multiple accreditations of academic programmes by various professional bodies. This move follows a formal notification from the Federal Ministry of Education, which raised concerns over the increasing trend of independent accreditations by professional bodies, separate from the NUC’s oversight. In a circular dated 20th May 2025 and signed by Jubril Abu Momoh, Acting Director,...

The Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) has rejected the sharing formula of the recently approved N50 billion Earned Allowances for both teaching and non-teaching staff in the institutions. It was gathered that the N50 billion is to be shared among the university-based unions, which include SSANU, NASU, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), and the National...

Professor Chris Piwuna, a consultant psychiatrist at the University of Jos Teaching Hospital, and current Dean of Student Affairs at the University of Jos, Plateau State, has emerged as the new President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Professor Piwuna defeated his opponent, Professor Adamu Babayo from Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, thereby succeeding Professor Victor Osodeke, a soil science expert from Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State. Piwuna assumes office...