The Federal Ministry of Education has set up a 31-man panel to renegotiate the agreement entered into between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities. According to reports, the committee will be inaugurated next Wednesday. This move by the government is part of plans to avert a potential disruption in the academic calendar of universities, following a fresh strike threat issued by ASUU. Speaking to newsmen in […]
The Oyo State Government has announced the release of the 2024 screening and placement results for primary six pupils transitioning into Junior Secondary Schools and Schools of Science. In a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Salihu Adelabu, in Ibadan on Tuesday, it was stated: “Head Teachers/Principals should visit their respective Local Inspector of Education offices to collect the screening/placement results.” The statement further noted […]
Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, has frowned at the recent hike in school fees by the Federal and Lagos State governments, describing it as illegal. It will be recalled that the federal government had in July 2023 increased fees for Unity Schools from N45,000 to N100,000 per term, an increase of over 120 percent. Similarly, the Lagos State Government, during the weekend announced N100,000 as the new fee for the […]
As the September 20 deadline for the payment of school fees approaches at the University of Ibadan, many student groups in the institution have reached out to the public to crowdfund to pay for the tuition fees of their members. The University of Ibadan Student Union along with the Faculties of Pharmacy and Nursing, and the Departments of Agronomy, Physiology, and Nutrition Science, have solicited funds to ensure that no […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has uncovered 3,000 Nigerian fake graduates. JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede made this announcement in a meeting with the delegation of the Committee of Pro-Chancellors of State Universities in Nigeria, COPSUN, in Abuja. In the details of the meeting published in the board’s bulletin, Oloyede also condemned the illegal admissions practice in some universities across the country. He said that the board has […]
Officers of the Nigerian Army have reportedly arrested and detained four individuals amid a protest against fee hikes at the University of Ibadan. Report says that the detained protesters, identified as Aduwo Ayodele, Made Gbadegesin, Olorunfemi Adeyeye, and Nice Linus, were apprehended and bundled into an Army van during a demonstration earlier today. In a circulating video made by the National Secretary of the African Action Congress, Adeyeye, a man […]
President Bola Tinubu has signed the Student Loans Act into law. The development follows individual reviews by both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the report from the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund. President Tinubu stated that the main aim of the new law was ensure that Nigerian children are not denied the right to education which he described as the tool to effectively fight poverty. He […]
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, have declared a 7-day warning strike to demand the payment of four months of withheld salaries of their members, following the 2022 nationwide strike. The decision was part of the resolution of the joint action committee of the two unions, after a meeting which held in Akure at the weekend. President of SSANU, Mohammed Ibrahim, made […]
