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The federal government has stated that going by the discussion and meetings had with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the past few weeks, the ongoing strike action by the union which has paralyzed academic activities in the universities nationwide will soon be called off. This was disclosed by the Minister of Labour and employment, Dr Chris Ngige.

According to him, this is due to the fact that the Federal Government has put into consideration some of ASUU’s demands, including the submission of the ...

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Rufai Salim from the department of Business Administration, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, UDUS, has reportedly been declared the first ever student to graduate with First-class Honours in the Department of Business Administration since 2001...

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Daughter of the Vice President of Nigeria, Yemi Osinbajo, and Kiki took to Instagram to celebrate herself and her nephew Laolu as they complete their one year National Youth Service Corps...

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In order to reduce the problem of abandoned certificates, the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) is planning to deploy an Electronic Certificate Management System to facilitate the issuance of certificates.

The council’s Head, Public Affairs, Mr Demianus Ojijeogu disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday, December 13, 2018, in Lagos.

According to him, the online system will enable the...

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The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, (ASUP) chapter of the Lagos State Polytechnic (LASPOTECH) has defied the ongoing nationwide strike declared by the National leadership of the union. According to the Vice-Chairman, ASUP, LASPOTECH, Mr. Salami Olugbenga, the polytechnic could not join the strike because there was no organ of the union on ground in the polytechnic since December 2017.

Olugbenga said this was as a result of an internal crisis between the union and the polytechnic’s management which had yet to be resolved by the court.



“We are not on strike because we have...

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Two female graduates of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) have reportedly broken the 21-yr-old jinx of no first class graduate at the institution’s English Department.

The graduates, Kehinde Lawal and Roheemah Arogundade finished with 4.56 CGPA.

According to Premium Times, Akinmade Akande, who is now a professor of English, is the last person to graduate from the department with a first class degree in 1997.

The university on Wednesday, December 12, 2018, at its 43rd joint convocation ceremony announced Arogunadade and Lawal, both of whom...

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A final year student of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, FUNAAB, identified as Olaniyi Ashimi, has reportedly died due to lack of oxygen and ambulance at FMC Abeokuta, Ogun State.

According to Twitter user @sammiee_oj95, the deceased was rushed to the hospital following an accident that occurred on their way back from a conference along Abeokuta-Ibadan road. On getting to the hospital, there was no one to attend to them even after 24hrs, he further explained that there was no functioning X-ray machines at the hospital to properly scan the accident victims. It was the following day they detected that the deceased had an internal bleeding and was ...

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The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has disclosed that it will still go ahead with the planned nationwide strike tomorrow December 12th, 2018. This was made known by the National President of the union, Usman Dutse,during an interview with newsmen in Lagos. Mr Dutse said the strike became necessary following the failure of the federal government to implement the 2009 and 2017 agreements reached with the union.

According to him, we are commencing our strike tomorrow as scheduled. Everything is set and there is no going back. He mentioned that there is an...

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The Chukwu Emeka Odumegwu University (COOU) formerly Anambra State University (ANSU) academic calendar for the 2018/2019 academic session is out. The academic Calendar shows a breakdown of events for the 2018/2019 academic session. See the breakdown of the academic calendar...

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Following the news that emerged this morning about the dilapidated state of Madonna University, the Institution has allegedly banned the use of “Tablet” within the university premises.

Over the weekend a Facebook user shared disturbing photos of how shabby Madonna university hostel looks, As the post goes viral, instead of the institution to try and improve their standard and make the environment conducive for the students, they are finding every means to conceal their inadequacies.



Although, the institution has banned the use of...

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The latest meeting between ASUU and FG, held on Monday Night (10th Dec, 2018) has ended without any resolution at sight. The Federal Government, once again, promised that they are “taking all necessary steps” to ensure that ASUU demands are met. The Union on the other hand said they would wait until after the next meeting on 17th Dec, 2018 to decide whether or not to call off the strike.

The meeting was presided by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige since the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, and the...

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A media company has caused a stir on social media after rejecting a male corps member deployed to their firm for his one year service. The media company rejected the male corps member and stated in the letter addressed to NYSC that they specifically need 2 gorgeous ladies to work in their company and not a male.

The viral photo is raising eye brows on social media.





As seen in the letter;

“Our reason for the rejection was his...

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB disclosed that the reason it had to extend the sales of 2019 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME form was for the federal government to formally approve the N3, 500 it has reduced it to. The board further explained that it picked next year for registration of UTME candidates because it wanted the reduction in the cost of selling its forms approved by the Federal Government to take effect.

The Chairman, JAMB Governing Board, Dr. Emmanuel Ndukwe, disclosed these at an event to celebrate some staff of the board who...

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The federal government will again meet with the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) on Monday December 10 by 4pm, over the ongoing nationwide strike. This was disclosed by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Niggle, in a statement signed by the Director of Press in the Ministry, Samuel Olowookere, in Abuja.

The minister also condemned a statement credited to a lawyer, Femi Falana, who was alleged to have described the enforcement of section 43:1 of the Trade Dispute Act 2004 on the’’ No Work No Pay’’ on ASUU as illegal.



According to the Minister, the law of ...

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The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu has reportedly said that there are 60 million illiterate youths and adults in Nigeria.

The minister, represented by the Deputy Director, Basic and Secondary Education, Ministry of Education, Prinzo James made this remark at the 2018 International Literacy Day Celebration.

60 per cent of the population according to the Minister are females while a total of 11 million children were out of school, Daily Trust report.

Adamu said, ‘‘with these unwholesome statistics in our hands, it becomes evident that concerted efforts are required in order to accelerate the...

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A lecturer was reportedly seen dressed in a “Spider Man” costume to attend to his student in other not to go against ASUU directives which required lecturers to stay away from academic work while the strike was still on.

According to reports, the lecturer is a member of the Academic Staff Union (ASUU) of the institution hence, if caught will be seriously dealt with. The lecturer was supposed to meet with some of his M.Sc students regarding their Dissertation defends which will be coming up immediately after the strike. It was gathered, that the lecturer ignored all greetings as he ...

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The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Biodun Ogunyemi has called on the striking lecturers to prepare for a long strike. This was contained in a Bulletin number 5 sent to all members of the union. According to him, the Government is not ready to resolve any of the demands of ASUU.

”Members are to be on the watch and prepare for a long drawn out struggle to salvage the university system.” The Bulletin reads.



He urged members to remain steadfast and...

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The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has declared that it would begin an indefinite strike from December 12. This implies that the polytechnic lecturers will join their university colleagues who have been on strike for a month now. The National President of ASUP, Usman Dutse, said the federal government had failed to meet the demands of the polytechnic lecturers which borders on need for increased funding of polytechnics.

ASUP had earlier in October 2 issued a 21-day ultimatum to the government before it extended it to November. But even then, it did not commence the strike.



Mr Dutse also said the roles of state government and the...

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The meeting held on Tuesday Night between ASUU and FG, to end the on-going strike has ended unresolved. This practically means the ASUU strike will continue until further notice. The President of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, had briefed Journalists after the meeting that both FG and ASUU had failed to reach any decision to end the strike.

At the time of reporting, no...

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The sale of Forms for the 2019 UTME, organised by JAMB has been moved to January. Remember the board had earlier announced that the sale of JAMB Forms will begin sometime in December. The new January Sales Date was confirmed by the official twitter handle for JAMB.

There is no further information released by JAMB at this time concerning registration.

The reason for this delay in Sale of JAMB form was...

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Following the Federal Government's directive to Vice Chancellors to enforce no-work-no-pay policy, the Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Ibadan Chapter, Dr. Deji Omole has described the government as shameless.
Omole the Federal Government is owing lecturers seven years of unpaid earned academic allowances and still want them to continue working for free while the Presidency and the...

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Adigun Olawale Emmanuel, a student of the university of Ilorin, has allegedly committed suicide after he was asked to carry over his project for the second time.



according to the conversation he had with his friend on a whats app chat which has gone viral, in his previous project he was accused of plagiarism and was asked to repeat the project work after much effort invested in it. He went further to explain how frustrated he was and was wishing for....

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The Federal Government has withdrawn the recent threat of ‘no work no pay policy’ against ASUU. This was disclosed by the National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in an exclusive chat with newsmen. He mentioned that the negotiation meeting between ASUU and the Federal Government would continue tomorrow.

The ASUU boss also said that last Friday’s meeting between the two parties did not yield much results. He said: “Well, we have confirmed that they have withdrawn that threat (no work no pay). So it appears the threat is not there for now. But even if the....

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The Tony Elumelu Foundation (TEF), the French Development Agency (AFD) and the French Institute for Research in Africa, Nigeria (IFRA Nigeria), have signed a partnership agreement to provide scholarship opportunities to Nigerians in Economics or Political Sciences of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) or the University of Ibadan (UI) who will be selected to conduct field research in Nigeria and Kenya, starting in January 2019.

The research will aim at studying the...

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The Senate has adopted the report of its committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund and has passed the bill for the establishment of 10 tertiary institution; five polytechnics, two universities, two colleges of education and one institute of technology. The institutions are Federal Polytechnic, Kabo, Kano State; ‎Federal Polytechnic, Daura, Katsina State; Federal Polytechnic, Ikom, Cross River State; Federal Polytechnic, Langtang, Plateau State and Federal Polytechnic, Kwale, Delta State.

Others are Federal University of Education, Aguleri, Anambra State; Federal University of Technology, Manchok, Kaduna State; Federal College of....

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned that the ongoing strike by its members may last for a prolong time as no concrete resolution has been reached in the negotiation with the Federal Government. The president of the union, Biodun Ogunyemi called on parents and students to show understanding and solidarity with the union as this is towards saving Nigeria’s university system from collapse.

“The struggle is to ensure too that we save Nigerian universities from going the way our public primary and secondary schools have gone.



“Today, most parents are sending their...

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that the registration date for the 2019 JAMB UTME will be in December, 2018. The Head of Media of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, announced this while addressing newsmen during the conduct of promotion exercise for the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS), at the board’s Computer Based Test (CBT) Centre in Abuja.

According to him, no specific date has been fixed in December for the commencement of the registration yet. However plans are being made to announce the specific date soon as the board was initially waiting for the announcement of the reduction of examination fees by the FG.



On the issue of the reduction of JAMB fees, Benjamin said it was commendable what the President had done as he was someone, who had always had the...

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UNIPORT Basic studies supplementary admission list for the 2018/2019 academic session have been released. All candidates who applied for supplementary admission into the basic studies programme of the University of Port-harcourt and participated in the screening exercise can proceed to check if they have been offered admission.

The list of admitted candidates have been made available on the...

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Report has it that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the reduction in the cost of JAMB UTME, NECO SSCE and the Basic Education Certificate Examination forms. The reduction will be implemented from January 2019 with the cost of JAMB UTME Form dropping from N5, 000 to N3, 500 while NECO will drop from N11, 350 to N9, 850.

This was disclosed by the Minister of Education, Adamu, announced this on Wednesday during the Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja.



According to him, these exam bodies are not...

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miss Oluwakemi Igiehon, from the department of Microbiology, faculty of life science, emerged the best graduating student of the university of Benin with a CGPA of 4.91.



The institution held her 44th Convocation and 48th Founder’s Day Ceremonies for the 2016/2017 academic session last week, where Oluwakemi was awarded the...

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The Meeting by the Federal Government and leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities yesterday Monday 26th, 2018 also ended in deadlock just as the first meeting. Both parties were unable to reach a middle ground. This implies that the strike by the lecturers continues as the meeting could not conclude on whether ASUU should return to work or not.

A reliable source privy to the meeting told newsmen that the...

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Emmanuel Oluwasayomi Ahmadu, a graduate of UNIBEN, popularly known by his IG handle “Mr. Voice-over” who was interviewed during the award ceremony organized by West Africa Citizens Award in Lagos last month, where he bagged the international award for Student Brand of the Year West Africa explained his journey to limelight.

The orphan who is a Voice-Over Artiste, a Nollywood Actor, Writer and an Entrepreneur reportedly explained how he struggled due to family crises, he said he attended sixteen (16) primary schools and fourteen (14) secondary schools.



“I wrote O’level exams...

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