The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Wednesday suspended its nine-month-old strike. Announcing the development, ASUU president, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi stated the action followed a consensus of the Union’s National Executive Committee. The suspension took effect starting Wednesday 23, 2020. The Federal Government on Monday had claimed to have […]
Education
The Kano State Government on Monday said it had commenced plans to recruit and deploy 2,000 teachers to teach in all girls’ schools across the state. The state’s Commissioner of Education, Malam Sanusi Kiru said this while declaring open, the 2020 Adolescent Girls Initiative and Empowerment (AGILE) meeting in Kano. […]
Lagos State Government says that 181 students and staff of a private boarding school in Lekki area of the state have tested positive to COVID-19 infection. Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi, disclosed this in a statement on Friday in Lagos. Abayomi said that the cases were detected […]
“… we discovered payments to some federal colleges (secondary schools) for school feeding in the sum of N2.67b during the lockdown when the children were not in school, and some of the money ended up in personal accounts. We have commenced investigations into these findings’’ The above was the statement made by […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is set to prosecute some staff of the National Examination Council (NECO) for allegedly possessing fake certificates. The move to prosecute the affected staff followed a request by the Registrar of NECO, Professor Godswill Obioma during a recent courtesy visit […]
The Minister of Environment, Muhammad Mahmood has stated that the decontamination of schools against the spread of COVID-19 ahead of resumption of class activities will begin on Tuesday. He disclosed this in Abuja at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19. Mahmood also assured that it had enough […]
The Office of the Accountant General of the Federation (OAGF) has debunked claims by tertiary institutions unions that the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) was deducting their salaries and allowances. The OAGF noted in a press statement that the “the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) Tax is a […]
The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari before leaving Daura, Katsina State on Monday said Nigeria’s socio-economic and political salvation would come from education. This was made known in a press statement signed and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and […]
Ekiti State in southwest Nigeria has adopted a policy to ban the expulsion of girls from schools during and after pregnancy, an important step in ending the longstanding discriminatory practice. Although Nigeria’s Child Rights Act protects the rights of girls to education during and after pregnancy, many continue to face […]
The US News & World Report has released its 2020 Global University ranking. In the African segment of the rank, the Nigerian University of Ibadan ranks #17 in Africa. South African based Universities dominated the Top 10 in the African ranking with no lesser than six SA Universities featuring in […]
