Category: Education
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ASUU Rejects NASS Push For More Varsities
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…
HOR Wants Automatic Employment For First Class Graduates
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…