ASUP Calls Off Strike, Urges Members To Resume Work On Monday
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has ordered its members all over the country to return to work on Monday, ending its two-week warning strike. PUNCH Online reports that the union had embarked on a two-week strike on December 2 over neglect of the polytechnics education in Nigeria and other issues. However, in a statement dated December 12 and made available...
Dr. Echem Appreciates Abia Govt Over Ambassador of Arts Award (Photos)
A Senior Lecturer in the Fine and Applied Arts department of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu Alike, Dr. Samuel Ogba Echem has expressed gratitude to the government of Abia State for honouring him with the award of Ambassador of Arts. He was among those honoured on Tuesday at the end-of-year get-together of the Department of culture in the ministry of...
We’re Working To End ASUU Strike Soon, Ngige Assures
The Federal Government, yesterday, expressed the hope that the one-month warning strike embarked upon by Academic State Union of Universities, ASUU, on February 14, 2022, would soon end. Recall that ASUU called its members out on the warning strike to compel the Federal Government to address their demands, some of which had been lingering since 2009. Minister of Labour and Employment,...
ASUU To Appeal Court Ruling Asking Lectures To End Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, says it will appeal the order by the National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) asking its members to call off the seven-month-long strike. The University of Abuja chapter chairman of ASUU, Dr Kasim Umar, stated this while reacting to the order by court in Abuja. Umar said the national executive Council of ASUU will...
Strike Looms As ASUU Begins Consultations After Three Weeks Ultimatum
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it has commenced consultation with its branches across the country to agree on the shutting down of public universities. This follows the expiration of its three week ultimatum to the Federal Government to meets its demands. ASUU’s National President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke who spoke in an interview on Tuesday lamented that the...
Lagos College Death: Sylvester Oromoni’s Family Hires Femi Falana Against Dowen School
The family of Sylvester Oromoni (Jnr), the late 12-year-old Dowen College student, has hired the firm of a foremost human rights lawyer and activist, Femi Falana, to prosecute its case against the institution over the death of their son. Our correspondent obtained the letter written by Falana to the office of Lagos State’s Chief Coroner, requesting an inquest into the...
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The Nigeria Police Academy has opened an online portal for applications for its 10th regular course cadet degree programme by interested and qualified Nigerian candidates. The Force Public Relations Officer, ACP Olumuyiwa Adejobi, who said this in a statement issued on Monday in Abuja, added that the online registration process would run for a period of six weeks, starting from...
WABMA Rector Okere To Speak At US Varsity’s Communication Conference
Rector of the West Africa Broadcast and Media Academy, WABMA, Dr. Ken Ike Okere is billed to speak at the 42nd Intercultural and Communication Conference of Texas Southern University School of Communication holding between April 8 and 12 in Houston, Texas, United States of America. Okere’s invitation cements a partnership relationship between the academy and the university. According to an announcement...
Lawan Weeps, Says Kidnappings Threatening Education In North
Senate President Ahmad Lawan says persistent attacks and kidnappings by bandits are depriving school children in the north of education, particularly the girl-child. Lawan said this in Abuja at the first solo exhibition of paintings and photographs by Stephen, son of Senator Binos Dauda Yaroe (Adamawa South). A number of schools in the northern region have been attacked by bandits and...
Neya Kalu Foundation Donates Study Materials To St. Saviour’s School Ikoyi
Founder of Neya Kalu Foundation (NYF) and Publisher of The Sun Publishing Limited, Neya Kalu, has donated boxes of various science study items to St.Saviour’s School, Ikoyi. She made the announcement at the launch of a Science, Technology, Engineering Mathematics (STEM) Project called FEMGINEERS, on Wednesday. It is designed to promote the study of sciences among young girls, stimulate the study...
