Ex-Transport Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, Bags Law Degree (PHOTOS)
Former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has earned a law degree at Baze University, Abuja, ABN TV reports. At the 9th Convocation Ceremony of the school today, Amaechi, a former governor of Rivers State, was awarded a Bachelor of Law, LL.B Degree. This feat is coming 35 years after the prolific politician earned his first degree in English Literature...
FG Raises School Feeding Programme From N70 To N100 Per Meal
The National Home-Grown School Feeding Programme has been reviewed from N70 per meal for schoolchildren to N100 in Delta State. The state Commissioner for Humanitarian and Community Support Services, Dr Darlington Ijeh, who stated this in Asaba, frowned on the manner in which the caterers were shortchanged. Ijeh, who was sworn in by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa as a commissioner on August...
You Won’t Be Paid For Work Not Done – FG Tells ASUU
The Federal Government has insisted that lecturers will not be paid for work not done in line with the ‘No work no pay’ policy. Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, said this while commenting on the protest of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over pro-rata October salary payment. ASUU, which embarked on strike in February, called it off in...
Police Assure Schools In Zamfara Adequate Security
The Police in Zamfara has restated commitment to provision of adequate security to ensure protection of tertiary institutions of learning in the state. The Commissioner of Police, Kolo Yusuf, stated this when visited Federal University Gusau, Federal College of Education (Technical) and Police Secondary School in Gusau, the state capital. This was contained in a statement by the Spokesman of the...
Refund Nominal Fees To Students Now – Gov. El-Rufai Orders Principals
The governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has said the introduction of nominal fees by the Ministry of Education through the principals is not consistent with government policy and is thus invalid. According to him, it should be rescinded with immediate effect, and all monies that may have been collected be refunded forthwith. An extraordinary meeting of the Kaduna State Executive...
FG Should Stop Humiliating ASUU, Says Ohuabunwa
A former Presidential aspirant on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, Sam Ohuabunwa, has lashed out at the current Federal Government led by the President Muhammadu Buhari over its ineptitude towards the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. This was as the past President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria noted that government attitude towards education signalled...
We Reject Casualisation Of Nigerian Intellectuals, ASUU Tells FG
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has slammed the Federal Government over the payment of half salaries to lecturers in October. In a statement on Tuesday by ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, the union condemned the ‘pro-rata’ payment to its members and accused the government of an attempt to reduce Nigerian scholars to casual workers. ASUU had on October 14, 2022,...
Vision Savers Global Outreach Takes Anti-cult Campaign To ABSU During Matric
A foremost anti-cult campaign group in Nigeria, Vision Savers Global Outreach has taken its advocacy to the students of Abia State University, ABSU Uturu at its recently concluded matriculation programme. The group says it seeks to roll out this awareness programme among the matriculating students as a way of getting them sufficiently equipped on the need to shun cultism and...
House Of Representatives Promises To N170bn Fund For ASUU In 2023 Budget
The House of Representatives is making arrangements for a N170 billion fund for the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the 2023 budget. Speaker of the House, Femi Gbajabiamila, disclosed this in a statement on Monday, saying the move will provide a level of increment in the welfare package of university lecturers. According to him, efforts were ongoing to find...
Uncertainty As ASUU Mulls Closing Universities Again
Less than one month after the Academic Staff Union of Staff Universities, ASUU suspended its 8-month industrial action, the union and the Federal Government are back on a warpath. Already, the National Executive Council of the ASUU is set to meet on Monday (tomorrow) to decide whether to embark on another strike or not, ABN TV gathered. The meeting, which is...
