JAMB Opens Portal For 2020/2021 Admissions
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, says its portal has been reopened for the 2020/2021 admissions. The board said opening the portal gives institutions access to upload names of shortlisted applicants for the 2020/2021 admissions. The spokesperson for JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, confirmed this in a telephone interview on Wednesday. When our correspondent visited the JAMB’s website on Wednesday, the portal had...
Gregory Varsity Fixes Date For Resumption Of Academic Activities
A leading private university in Nigeria, Gregory University Uturu, Abia State has fixed date for the recommencement of academic activities after the Christmas and New Year holidays. According to a release by the Acting Registrar, Mrs. Rosemary Igboekwe, lectures have been scheduled to commence virtually on Monday, January 4, 2021, in continuation of the Harmattan Semester of the 2020/2021 academic...
I Won’t Let ASUU Embark On Another Strike – Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, has said that he will do everything to ensure that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) does not go on another industrial action. He explained that three of his biological children have also been victims of the system, so he is personally committed to resolving the issues. “I will not give ASUU...
Joy As Sen. T.A Orji Awards Scholarship To 100 Undergraduates (SEE LIST)
Former governor of Abia State and the Senator representing Abia Central, Sen. T.A Orji on Wednesday doled out scholarship grants to about 100 undergraduate constituents of various universities in the state. This is even as the lawmaker reiterated that education is vital to the success of individuals and society at large. The grant disbursement took place at constituency office of the...
Nigerian Graduates Are More Dangerous Than Illiterates – Afe Babalola
Founder of Afe Babalola University in Ado-Ekiti, (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), says Nigeria's standard of education has fallen so drastically that graduates from Nigerian Universities have become more dangerous than uneducated people in the society. Babalola stated this when he spoke at a reception held in Igbajo, Boluwaduro Local Government Area of Osun State for Prof. Damilola Olawuyi, the...
BREAKING: ASUU Calls Off 9 Month Old Strike
The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) on Wednesday “conditionally” suspended its strike, ending a protracted industrial action that started since March 2020. ASUU National President, Biodun Ogunyemi made the announcement during a briefing of the union in Abuja, explaining that the development followed with its National Executive Council (NEC). While warning that the union would return to strike without notice...
BREAKING: ASUU Finally Calls Off Nine-Month-Old Strike
The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) on Wednesday called off its strike, ending a protracted industrial action that started since March 2020. ASUU National President, Biodun Ogunyemi made the announcement during a briefing of the union in Abuja, explaining that the development followed consultations with its National Executive Council (NEC). Details later… Source https://abntv.com.ng/2020/12/nigeria-is-at-risk-of-becoming-a-failed-state-%e2%80%95-financial-times/
Universities To Reopen January – Minister
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, says the Academic Activities in Nigeria Universities will resume in January. He says the negotiations between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal government had reached 98 percent, adding that it remains only two percent to be completed He spoke Monday in Alor, Idemili South local government area of...
ASUU Strike: Ngige Has Failed Nigerians, Remove Him Now – Elebute
Dr. Tunde Elebute, a private school proprietor and member, Association for Formidable Educational Development (AFED), on Sunday, called for the removal of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige over the lingering strike called by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Dr. Elebute, in an interview with Daily Independent, said it is unthinkable that the arrowhead of...
Governor Uzodinma Sacks Imo University VC Obasi
Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodinma, has sacked the Vice-Chancellor of Imo State University, Owerri, Prof Adaobi Obasi. Uzodinma’s Chief Press Secretary, Oguwike Nwachuku, in a statement, said the decision to sack Obasi was reached at an Executive Council Meeting chaired by the governor. Nwachuku disclosed that the VC who is an aunt to a former governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha,...
