The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Comrade Umar Faruk, has vowed that there will be no going back on the plan to shut down Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos beginning from tomorrow, Monday, Read more…
As preparations for the 2023 general election are fast approaching, the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State-Owned Universities (COPSUN) has called on the political class to give greater attention to education with a substantial increase in the budgetary allocation saying education Read more…
Indication that the on going strike by University teachers would soon be called off emerged this evening of a proposed meeting of leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the governing council of Universities and the Vice Chancelors. Read more…
Three students of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University (COOU), Igbariam campus, Anambra State were on Saturday found dead in the hostel. A source identified the students as Obidiaso Chidera (200-level Political Science student), Mercy (200-level Pharmacy student), and Emmanuella (200-level Business Read more…
The protracted dispute between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that has kept all public universities shut for more than seven months has taken a new turn as FG files a case against the union Read more…
Over 40 per cent of teachers in the North East have lost their lives to insurgency-related attacks, the Managing Director of the North East Development Commission (NEDC), Mohammed Alkali, has revealed. Appearing at the Ministerial Media Briefing organised by the Read more…
The back and forth between the striking university lecturers under the umbrella of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government continued on Wednesday when the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, maintained that the Federal Government has Read more…
A global Non -Governmental education support organization, Scholarship Aid Initiative (SAI) on Friday, counselled management of Federal Universities in Nigeria to consider the option of charging tuition fees to enable them meet up with financial obligations in their respective institutions. Read more…
Former president, Goodluck Jonathan, has given insight into how he resolved a four-month strike during his administration. Jonathan spoke during the 70th birthday celebration of the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Most Revd (Dr) Matthew Hassan Kukah in Abuja, yesterday. Read more…
The West African Education, Economic and Social Advancement Forum has stated that Nigeria’s education standard is greatly hampered by the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ ongoing industrial action and increasing cases of certificate forgery by politicians. WAESAF Nigeria District President, Read more…
The lecturers of the Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze, Anambra State, on Monday, protested over six years of unpaid allowances. They alleged that the Provost and management of the institution were intimidating them not to protest. They, therefore, warned Read more…
The striking lecturers in Nigeria have demanded a review of their conditions of service; students’ education plans disrupted Adenekan Ayomide had been attending the University of Abuja for two years when the lecturers went on strike in February. The 27-year-old Read more…