Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday, were absent at a meeting called at the instance of the federal government over the lingering industrial action in universities. Chris Ngige, minister of […]
Year 2009 was the most challenging year of my adult life. In June 2009, I was admitted at the University College Hospital (UCH). It was that time of the year when we were writing mid-semester […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has defended its decision on 120 as minimum cut-off marks for admission into university, 100 for polytechnics and 110 for innovative enterprise institutions. The board said poor admission […]
The EU in Nigeria has promised to intervene in the visa procurement challenges faced by some Nigerian students on `Erasmus Plus’ Scholarship to some European countries. Minister Deputy Head of Delegation EU Delegation to Nigeria […]
I have followed with keen interest the controversy over the announcement of cut-off marks for Nigeria’s admission processes for the 2017/2018 session, with many commentators and the general public insisting that it is unwise, insensitive […]
The new President of American University of Nigeria, Yola, Dawn Dekle, began the 2017/2018 academic year on Tuesday by going around lecture classes with baskets of apples and having photo shoots with the lecturers and students. In […]
What is this story about lowering scores in the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) conducted entrance examination into tertiary institutions in Nigeria? From 180 and 200 it used to be, the new proposal brings […]
It is a very difficult moment for university education in Nigeria as it is beset by chronic strikes. The Academic Staff Union of Universities declared the most recent one on August 12, disrupting the already […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will on Friday hold a National Executive Council meeting to determine the direction of the ongoing national strike, PREMIUM TIMES can report. The meeting will be holding after national branches equally held […]
We need a far more sustainable solution. The problems with our universities, and indeed other tertiary institutions, are not that these challenges exist; it is that these challenges more or less remain the same over […]
If ASUU is truly interested in the emergence of “the country of our dreams”, it must stop using students as cannon fodder while fighting for the pockets of its members. It must lead the students […]
A former pupil of Shalom Academy, Nsukka, Enugu State, Chinecherem Cynthia Ali, whose story went viral after she made A grade in all the subjects she took in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, […]
On the day a meeting between striking university lecturers, ASUU, and the federal government deadlocked, the education minister said the strike may be called off within one week. The minister, Adamu Adamu, stated this at a meeting […]
The federal government has given tertiary institutions the go-ahead to conduct Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). Adamu Adamu, the minister of education, made this known in Abuja on Wednesday, The Nation reports. He said universities, […]
LAGOS—Academic programmes in all public universities in the country were, yesterday, truncated, following an indefinite strike called by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. This came as parents and students, especially final year students, […]
The National Association of Nigerian Students has called on the Federal Government to look into the plight of the Academic Staff Union of Universities to avert the indefinite strike. Mr Chinonso Obasi, National President, NANS […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has embarked on an indefinite strike. In a memo to lecturers dated August 12, Biodun Ogunyemi, president of the ASUU national strike coordinating committee, said they resolved to […]
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, will hold the policy committee meeting on August 21 and 22 that will determine cut of points for admission this year into various courses in Nigerian tertiary institutions. […]
Surfwella, a free Wi-Fi facility, will be made available in Nigerian universities, from this week, to give a boost to Stertiary education in the country. The Chief Marketing Officer, Surfwella, Olusola Bankole, said on Sunday […]
No fewer than 70 lecturers have resigned from the University of Maiduguri since the outbreak of Boko Haram insurgency in the North- East, SUNDAY PUNCH, has learnt. Also, while five lecturers have been killed, three […]
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