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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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.…
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…
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…
