Category: Education
30 Universities, Polytechnics, Competes For 900 Million Naira
30 Universities, Polytechnics, Competes For 900 Million Naira
Universities Gets Grant Of Over 172 Million Naira
13 Universities in the country have been presented with grants worth over 172 Million Naira for various professorial endowments and telecom based innovation research efforts by the Nigeria Communications Commission, NCC. Presenting the cheques, the Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Professor Umar Danbatta said the grants were in consonance with the Strategic Vision plan of the NCC to ensure the advancement of emerging and indigenous technologies. Professor Danbatta said the academia represents the future of the nation’s march towards technological re-engineering; therefore there is the need to ensure synergy with the industry. Professor Danbatta said the global telecom sector…
NIDCOM: Fleeing Nigerian Students To Poland, Hungary, Now In Detention
07-04-2022 The Chairman Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NiDCOM, Mrs. Abike Dabiri-Erewa says some Nigerian students who fled War torn Ukraine to neighboring countries of Poland and Hungary are now in detention. A development she said was unacceptable by the Federal Government. She made this known in Abuja at the commencement of a two day Psychosocial Trauma Clinic For Ukraine returnees organized by the National Commission For Refugees Migrants and Internally Displaced Persons, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission and Project Victory Call Initiative, PVC Naija. Mrs Dabiri-Erewa explained that the psychosocial support programme would be extended to other parts of the country…
ASUU: SSANIP Threatened To Cripple Academic Activities
The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics, SSANIP, has threatened to join forces with the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, to cripple academic activities in their institutions if the government fails to fulfill the promises made to them. SSANIP disclosed a letter to the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Ad am I and signed by it’s national Secretary, Hussaini Gwandu. The association in the letter wondered why the Federal Government would sign an agreement it knew it would not fulfil. SSANIP in the letter listed the contentious issues with the government such as the non-release of their Schemes of…
Court Sentences Two Secondary School Students To Prison
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…
Wow! Three Children Disappear From School – How?
Men of the FCT Police Command, have arrested teachers and the proprietor of Star Child Academy in Kabusa, Abuja over the sudden disappearance of three pupils in the school. According to reports, the mother of the children identified as Marvelous, Alex and Rehoboth Sunday, had gone to their school on Tuesday March 22, to pick them up but they were nowhere in sight. A search was conducted and there was no trace of the children in the school vicinity. The woman called her husband, got to the school and immediately lodged a complaint at the nearest police station. Confirming the…
NAAT Directs Branches To Commence Two Week Strike
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,…