A Lagos High Court sitting at Tafawa Balewa Square, TBS, has sentenced two Senior Secondary School (SSS 3) leavers Udochukwu Anyanwu and Udo Chibike (also known as Lasis), to seven years imprisonment each for breaking into a church and stealing a piano. Justice Yetunde Adesanya sentenced them after they pleaded guilty to a plea bargain agreement. The judge held that the term of the imprisonment will start from the day they were first remanded in prison on January 19, 2017. The convicts were first remanded in prison on January 19, 2017, by a Lagos Magistrates Court and were later charged…

20/3/2022.          NAAT /StrikeThe National Association of Academic TechnologistsNAAT,  has directed all its branches to commence a two week warning strike with effect from tomorrow 21st, March, 2022, over alleged failure of the Federal Government to implement the 2009 agreement.A statement by the. association’ s President, Comrade Ibeji Nwokoma explains that the decision to embark on a two-week warning strike was taken after a virtual National Executive Council meeting where it said about 97.8 per cent of its branches voted in favour of a strike.The statement accused Federal Government of failing to honour the Memorandum of Anderstanding,…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has rejected the initiation of new bills for the creation of new universities in Nigeria.ASUU National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, told Newsmen that the government was yet to meet up with the needs of existing universities, yet it was pushing for the creation of new ones. Prof. Osodeke, said that most Universities were in dilapidated states, lecturers were not well catered for and kicked against more Universities.He said Nigeria does not have up to one hundred thousand lecturers as there exist brain drain.The ASUU President pointed out that lecturers were leaving the country because of unfair…

The House of Representatives has urged the federal ministry of education to liaise with relevant government agencies to ensure automatic employment of first class graduates of Nigerian institutions. This was sequel to a motion by a member from Imo State, Mr Emeka Chinedu at plenary. The lawmaker expressed concern with the growing rate at which employable first class graduates of universities in Nigeria are going jobless or leaving the country in droves. This according to him was despite the fact that graduates with lower grades get the option of first refusal in getting jobs due to their connections. Chinedu observed…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete branchhas expressed its support for the ongoing warning strike declared by the union’s national body. The branch, however, attributed the inability of its members to participate in the industrial action to some challenges facing the state owned university. The KWASU ASUU’s chairman, Dr Shehu Salahu, in a statement sought the understanding of national leadership of the union on the predicament of the institution’s lecturers. The union called on the federal government to do the needful and bring to an end the lecturers’ strike in the over all interest…

President Muhammadu Buhari has charged the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, to go into online examination and Marking system in the next few years to conform with the global best practices in the world of examinining candidates in twenty-first century. The President gave the charge in a message to the opening of the Seventieth Annual Council Meeting of WAEC held at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja. Represented by the Vice Presisent, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, President Buhari said that with the advance in technology in the world today, every service delivery organisation must look beyond its traditional way of reaching out…

A Ukraine-trained resident nurse of Dowen College, Ms Omobola Kayode, has revealed that the late 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni Jnr., who was allegedly beaten up by some senior students had a minor injury on his thigh when she came in contact with him. The nurse who holds a Bachelor of Science (BSc), in Nursing from Ukraine University, joined Dowen College three weeks before the death of Oromoni Jnr. Testifying before an Ikeja Coroner’s Court, the nurse while responding to questions from the Coroner, Mr Mikhail Kadiri, said that she came in contact with the deceased on Nov. 22, 2021 when he…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB says the ongoing 2022 UTME/DE registration exercise scheduled to end on 26th March, will not be extended. A statement by JAMB’s head of Public Relations Dr Fabian Benjamin says the time scheduled for the registration exercise from 19th February to 26th March, 2022, is the only window allotted by relevant authorities to the Board to conduct the exercise. It noted that registration and examination dates are not fixed arbitrarily but through a consensus of opinions of the Federal Ministry of Education and examination agencies. Hence, before the commencement of registration or examination for…