Abia Polytechnic Denies Charging High Fees, Says It’ll Establish Printing Press, Bread Factory, Others To Increase IGR
The management of Abia State Polytechnic Aba has denied charging high cost of school fees to students of the institution, urging the public to ignore the report. The Polytechnic also denied as untrue the report that its students are not being mobilised for the compulsory NYSC programme, as well as not having qualified teachers for academic activities, insisting there is...
As University Strike Continues, ASUP Threaten To Shut Down All Polytechnics
As the warning strike embarked upon by Academic Staff Union of Universities enters second month, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) on Thursday threatened to shut down all Polytechnics across the country if the Federal Government fails to meet up with its demands within the next one month. The ASUP President Comrade Anderson Ezeibe made the threat while addressing...
NIREC, ASUU Disagree Over Negotiations, Continues On Strike Extension
The President of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Rev. Samson Ayokunle, has criticised the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government over the ongoing strike by lecturers across universities in the country. He said ASUU was impatient and disrespected him and the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Saad Abubakar, by going ahead with the strike despite wading into the...
ASUU Strike: NANS Resumes Protest In Abuja
The National Association of Nigerian students on Monday resumed its protest to demand an end to the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Speaking during the protest in Abuja, the national president of NANS, Sunday Asefon, said students are ready to throng major roads in the Federal Capital Territory. He added that students are resolute and would not...
Bauchi Govt Splashes N25m Cash, Scholarships On Winners Of Quranic Recitation Competition
The Bauchi State Government has gifted 10 winners, participants and judges of the 36th National Quranic Recitation Competition which was held in the state the sum of N25 million. The Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, who announced the donation in his speech at the closing ceremony of the one-week long competition at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa Stadium, on Saturday, also...
About 9.7M Students In Nigerian At Risk Of Never Returning To School — UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund on Thursday said no fewer than 9.7 million Nigerian students are at risk of never returning to school. The UN body noted this in Abuja, during the launch of the Nigeria Learning Platform, an online, mobile and soon-to-be offline learning platform that will provide continuous education to three million learners in 2022 alone. The UNICEF’s Executive...
Reps To Probe Multiple Fees Imposed On Candidates By JAMB
The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the multiple fees being imposed on candidates of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. At the plenary on Wednesday, the House mandated its Committee on Basic Education to “investigate the multiple processing and/or administrative fees imposed by JAMB and its accredited agents on JAMB candidates.” The committee is to report back within four weeks for...
Vice-Chancellors Meet, Discuss Future Of Varsities
Amid strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (CVCNU) has met at the University of Ibadan (UI) in Oyo State to discuss the future of Nigerian universities. The meeting, which is part of the activities marking the Diamond Jubilee celebration anniversary of the committee, is tagged, “Sixty Years in Sixty Minutes: Exploring...
Law School Enrolls 1,500 National Open University Graduates – VC
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) says 1,500 graduates of its law programme are currently in the Nigerian Law School. NOUN Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olufemi Peters, stated this at a press conference ahead of the 11th convocation of the institution hold on March 26. “The law school was not sure of the kind of graduates we are producing and the idea...
After Renovating, Re-Equipping School, Zulum Rejects Naming Of Project After Him
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State, Monday rejected the naming of two blocks of hostel in his honour, at the state-owned Polytechnic, Ramat Polytechnic, in Maiduguri. Zulum was at the polytechnic to commission the hostels for 1,500 students, renovated and reequipped by the State’s Ministry of Higher Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation, using funds internally generated from the Polytechnic’s commercial...
