The Governing Council of the Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo has approved the promotion of 11 professors, 12 associate professors and other academic and non-academic staff. In a statement released by coordinator of Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations Ademola Adekoya stated that the council, during its 125th statutory meeting on February 18, considered
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The Federal Government has signed a memorandum of Action with the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities towards ending the ongoing strike by both unions. At a meeting with the government on Thursday, the two parties agreed on all the eight-point demand of the Joint Action Committee of
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The Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Lagos State University (LASU) Chapter, on Thursday, suspended an indefinite strike over outstanding arrears of minimum wage and other demands. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that NASU and SSANU under the aegis of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) had embarked
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The Enugu State government, on Sunday, tasked parents and guardians on teaching and enforcing indigenous language speaking and writing by their children and wards at home. Dr Edward Okolo, Executive Secretary, Enugu State Council for Arts and Culture, stated this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on ways of preserving indigenous languages.
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Abia State Governor Okezie Ikpeazu has approved March 1 for the resumption of public and private schools for the second term of the 2020/2021 academic session. A statement by the Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Chris Ezem, said the second term would end on May 7. It added that all school heads and proprietors
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The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, on Friday expressed optimism that the university workers would suspend their strike by February 15. The minister, who disclosed this in a statement issued by the Director of Press in the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr. Charles Akpan, said Thursday’s meeting between the Federal
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The Federal Government yesterday threatened to invoke the policy of no work, no pay against the striking non-teaching staff in the universities. But the non-teaching staff have told the government that it is impossible to beat a child and ask him not to cry, accusing the government of being the motivator of the strike they
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The Federal Government and the non-teaching staff of Nigerian universities will resume their meeting on Thursday. The meeting between the two parties held earlier this month was inconclusive. But the federal government and the workers who came together under the aegis of Joint Action Committee on Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will expend not less than N100 million on the prosecution of 200 out of the over 400 persons involved in impersonation in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, made this known on Tuesday in Abuja, during a ‘confession session’
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The Federal Government has set up visitation panels for the new tertiary institutions which include 25 Federal Polytechnics and 21 Colleges of Education, which were recently approved by President Muhammadu Buhari. Announcing this in a statement on Friday, Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, said the visitation panels to the polytechnics have five members and
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The Federal Government on Wednesday granted provisional licences to 20 new private universities in the country. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the universities would get
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said Vice-Chancellors and bursars of some universities are hindering the smooth disbursement of the union’s share of the N40bn earned allowance. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, had recently said the N40bn earned allowance had been paid to the universities’ account, adding that out
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THE University of Calabar (UNICAL) COVID-19 Task Force Committee has commenced the fumigation of the campus ahead of the February 5 resumption date for academic activities, according to the Vice Chancellor, Florence Obi. Professor Obi told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Calabar that the fumigation was part of the institution’s preparation
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As schools in Lagos state resume amid the Covid-19 pandemic, the state government has made it clear that government-owned schools will maintain the shift-system introduced last year when they reopened for the first term of the year. The shift system is to be continued to observe safety protocols necessary to curb the spread of COVID-19.
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The management of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Wednesday directed the students of the institution to return to campus for the resumption of academic activities on January 25. The UNILAG’s Head of Media Unit, Mrs. Olufadeke Akinleye, who disclosed this in a statement, said the institution would commence online classes on that date. The
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