WAEC To Release SSCE Results Today
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced that the results for the 2020 West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will be released on Monday. The exam body broke the news on its Twitter page on Sunday night. It added that the results will be released at 10:30 am. “This is to inform candidates that sat West African Senior School...
Strike: FG Making Smooth Negotiation Difficult —ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has accused the Federal Government of frustrating efforts to resolve issues that led to the ongoing strike action embarked upon by the lecturers. The National President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, said this on Politics Today, a programme aired on Channels Television and monitored by our correspondent. He explained that the Federal Government has refused to...
IPPIS: FG Paid Some Professors N8,000 As Monthly Salary – ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Thursday said it is yet to call off its ongoing strike because the federal government has made a smooth negotiation very impossible. Disclosing this on Channels Television programme ‘Politics Today’ monitored by ABN TV, the national body of the university lecturers, led by its President, Prof. Abiodun Ogunyemi said that they are...
Kano Govt Threaten To Cancel Third Term If Private Schools Don’t Reduce Fees
The Kano State Commissioner for Education, Muhammad Kiru, on Thursday, threatened to cancel the third term in the state if proprietors of private schools fail to reduce their school fees by at least 25 per cent before November 1, 2020 The Chief Public Relations Officer of the Ministry, Aliyu Yusuf, in a statement, said the state would be left with...
ASUU Strike Continues As Meeting With FG Ends In Another Stalemate
The meeting between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU) has once more failed to reach a decisive conclusion. The closed-door meeting which was held on Wednesday at the conference room of the Ministry of Labour and Employment in Abuja lasted for five hours with newsmen being excused after opening remarks were made ASUU National President, Professor...
Public & Private Schools In Abia To Reopen November 2nd
The Abia State Government has disclosed that 2020/2021 Academic session will officially begin on Monday, November 2, 2020, for all public and private nursery, primary and secondary schools in the State. This was contained in a release signed by the State Commissioner for Education, D. KCK Nwangwa and made available to DAILY POST on Thursday morning. According to the statement, all...
Public And Private Schools Can Reopen Monday – Lagos Govt
Private and public schools in Lagos State can reopen from Monday, November 2, 2020. The Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, made this known in a statement on Thursday. The statement was titled, ‘LASG approves reopening of schools from Monday’. It read in part, “The Lagos State Government has approved the re-opening of schools for all classes in public and private schools...
FG Slams ASUU For Using UTAS As Condition For Ending Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has come under attack as the federal government described the condition set by the body before it can end its strike as "unreasonable." It would be recalled that ASUU said it would end the strike action after its home-grown University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) has passed the federal government's integrity test. Speaking in...
FEC Approves ₦2.9 Billion For Printing Of Question Papers, Others
The Federal Executive Council, FEC on Wednesday approved N2.9 billion contracts for the printing of sensitive and non-sensitive examination materials. FEC also approved N1.6bn for the rehabilitation and upgrade of some roads within the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. The decisions were taken at the council’s meeting presided over by the President, Muhammadu Buhari. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed; Minister of...
Comr. Nwosu Chinedu Emerges NANS Healthcare, Welfare Committee Chairman
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Zone B, Abia State has appointed a new committee on healthcare and welfare matters. ABN TV reports that the function of the committee is to devise means of visiting motherless babies homes, hospitals, academic institutions and others within the state to contribute and show them support, a release by Comr. Frank E. Orji,...
