ASUU Strike: Buhari Government Will Teach Lecturers Lesson With ‘No Work, No Pay’
The Federal Government has again threatened that members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, who are currently on strike, will not receive salary. Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, said lecturers would not be paid for the six months they are absent from work. He disclosed that the measure would serve as a penalty over the “behavior of ASUU.” Addressing State House...
COEASU National Leadership Urges Ikpeazu To Reverse Alleged Sack Abia College of Education Union Chairman
The National leadership of COEASU, has called on the Governor of Abia State, Dr Okezie Victor Ikpeazu to take urgent steps to ensure that the sacking of the Chairman of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) of Abia State College of Education (Technical), Arochukwu (ASCETA) Comrade Egesi Onyemaechi Kevin is reversed. The body urged the governor to call...
Abuja Teacher Receives Beating From Father Of Female Pupil Who Told Her “Waka”
A crisis broke out at Aces Nursery Primary and Secondary School in Abuja when a father, Muhammed Jimeta assaulted a teacher, Sekinat Adedeji for allegedly beating his daughter, Karima Jimeta. The incident occurred on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Recounting her ordeal, the teacher, Sekinat Adedeji, said she was holding her three-month-old baby when her pupil’s father, Jimeta, assaulted her. According to her,...
Edo State Govt Declares Over 200 Vehicles Missing
The committee set up by the Edo government to recover government assets says over 200 vehicles belonging to the state are missing. The chairman of the committee Kelly Okungbowa shared the information with journalists in Benin City, the Edo State capital on Friday. He said three of these vehicles have been recovered less than a day after the group was inaugurated. Okungbowa...
JAMB To Fix Cut Off Marks For 2020 Admissions On June 16th
Jamb’s 2020 policy meeting of all tertiary institutions will hold on June 16, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said. This was disclosed by its weekly bulletin issued on Sunday, Dr Fabian Benjamin, the Board’s Head of Media and Information stated that the cut off marks for 2020 admission will be fixed by stakeholders will during the policy meeting. The...
It’ll Cost JAMB N100m To Prosecute 200 Suspected Exam Fraudsters — Oloyede
The Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Ish-aq Oloyede, on Tuesday said the board would expend about N100m on the prosecution of 200 of the over 400 persons involved in impersonation in the 2020 UTME. Oloyede also alerted Nigerians to the merchants of malpractices in the centres of its 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in some Northern parts of the country. According...
ASUU Strike: I’m In An Internal Turmoil – Edu Min Adamu
The minister of education, Adamu Adamu, on Tuesday said he had been in a dark period of personal anguish and internal turmoil following the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. This was made known during the meeting with vice-chancellors and pro-chancellors of federal universities at the National Universities Commission in Abuja on Tuesday. “For me, the past two...
Read-Athon: Nigerian Man Sets World Record After Reading Out Loud For 215 Hours
The Guinness World Records (GWR) has announced 27-year-old Nigerian Samson Ajao as the new record holder for the world’s longest marathon reading aloud, clocking in at 215 hours – just one hour short of nine full days. Ajao, from Osogbo in Osun State, beat the previous record of 124 hours set in 2022 by Rysbai Isakov (Kyrgyzstan). To achieve this record,...
Why we suspended national ID for UTME – JAMB
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board have said it decided to suspend the use of the National Identification Number as requirements for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry registration due to technical issues and stakeholders’ concerns. The UTME and DE registration are scheduled to begin on January 13 and end on February 17. Announcing this at a press...
Female Secondary School Student Caught With Local Gun In Cross River (Photos)
A secondary school student has been caught in possession of a local gun in school which she allegedly planned to use in shooting her teacher. It was gathered that the yet-to-be-named girl, a student of Government Secondary School, Ikot Ewa in Cross River State, was asked by a teacher to cut her coloured hair and she was angered by this. ...
