Scholarship For 20 Students: We’re Setting The Path For Success of Future Generations — Kalu
The founder Orji Uzor Kalu Foundation, Sen. Orji Uzor Kalu said the non-governmental has has kept its commitments on setting the path for the success of the future generations. According to Sen. Kalu, representing Abia North, no fewer than 20 young Nigerians have benefited from his foundation's scholarship programme to study medicine and surgery abroad. The former Abia governor stated this...
ASUU Begins Preparation For Strike, Declares Monday Lecture-Free
The Academic Staff Union of Universities. ASUU has urged its chapters across the country to sensitise members of the public on the situation between the union and the Federal Government. This is as it declared Monday, February 7, 2022, as a lecture-free day in a bid to enhance sensitisation. The National President of the Union, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed this...
We May Not Resume This Year – ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has expressed regrets that with the action of the Federal Government that Universities would not resume again this year. ASUU also stated that FG was playing with the future of Nigeria students, adding that the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, cannot curb corruption in the university system as claimed by...
Exemption From IPPIS Will Enable Universities To Operate Efficiently – VC
The exit of tertiary institutions from the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) will allow them to function more effectively, according to Prof. Abayomi Fasina, vice-chancellor of the Federal University Oye Ekiti (FUOYE). Fasina stated this while receiving an award of excellence from the Correspondents Chapel of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, Ekiti State Council. Read also: NAPS Lauds Tinubu Over...
FG Closes Down 18 Foreign Varsity Campuses Over Alleged Certificate Forgery
The Federal Government has banned 18 foreign universities operating in Nigeria, describing them as “degree mills,’’ warning Nigerians to avoid enrolling in such institutions. The directive affected five universities from the United States, six from the United Kingdom, and three Ghanaian tertiary institutions. Also, the Federal Ministry of Education on Tuesday announced the temporary suspension of evaluation and accreditation of degree...
We’re Only Owing 5 Months Salary Not Ten, Abia State University Replies ASUU
The Management of the Abia State University, ABSU, has debunked claims by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, in the institution that its members were being owed for 10 months, insisting that staff of the university are only owed for five...