The Federal Government on Tuesday assured that the perennial crisis in the nation’s university system, which has resulted in the on-going strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) would soon be permanently laid to rest as they expressed their hope for university lectures to go back to lecture room on Wednesday. The Minister
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The National Examinations Council (NECO) has on Monday, announced the resumption of this year’s Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) in the states of the federation and Abuja to be on November 9. It could be recalled that the examinations were suspended indefinitely last month over the #EndSARS protest in several parts of the country. The
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The West African Examinations Council has released the results of the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination for 2020. The examination body had earlier announced that the results would be released today, Monday, November 2, 2020. It was gathered that the release of the results was delayed due to the violence and arson that erupted in
Read moreThe West African Examination Council, WAEC, has announced that the results for Senior Secondary School Examination, SSCE, will be released tomorrow, Monday, November 2. The announcement was made on their twitter handle on Sunday. It wrote: “This is to inform candidates that sat West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates, 2020, that
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The Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, has said private and public schools in Lagos can reopen from Monday, November 2, 2020 Adefisayo made this known on Thursday in a statement which was titled, ‘LASG approves reopening of schools from Monday’. It read in part, “The Lagos State Government has approved the re-opening of schools
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The West African Examinations Council has said the results of the 2020 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination would be released next week. The results were supposed to be out today but the examination body said the postponement was due to the violence and arson in the country which affected some of its offices and some
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The Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) meets again to discuss and reach an agreement to end the eight-month-old strike by the university lecturers on Monday. They had adjourned their meeting till Monday after the meeting last Wednesday ended in a deadlock.The Minister of State, Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo, announced the
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The National Examinations Council (NECO) has postponed the ongoing Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations indefinitely. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by NECO Head of Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani. According to him, the board’s decision is postpone the exams is due to the current security challenges, occasioned by the #EndSARS
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Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics), University of Uyo, Prof. Enoidem Usoro has called for reappraisal of business education in Nigeria to ensure business educators and graduates remained competitive and cope with challenges posed by the coronavirus pandemic. Usoro made the call in Awka, the Anambra state capital during the 32rd Annual National Conference organised by the Association
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The National Examination Council (NECO) has on Wednesday rescheduled for the second time in one week the examination of three subjects due to what it termed circumstances beyond its control. The examination was initially slated for for Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The postponement was caused by the ongoing protests against police brutality, according to a
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The ongoing nationwide protests against alleged police brutality, tagged ‘EndSARS’ have begun to have a heavy toll on candidates writing schools’ examinations. This was confirmed Sunday as the National Examinations Council, NECO,informed that the development had constrained it to reschedule its Paper I Computer Studies Practicals earlier scheduled to take place on Monday 19 October
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The Federal Government on Friday said it has approved a temporary site for the establishment of a Federal College of Forestry in Jere Local Government Area of Borno state. The Minister of Environment, Dr Mohammad Abubakar, said this after a meeting with Governor Babagana Zulum, at the Government House in Maiduguri. Abubakar said that details
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The meeting between the Federal Government and the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over the controversial Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS platform last night ended in deadlock. There were hot arguments between representatives of the federal government and ASUU as the two parties maintained their positions on IPPIS.The meeting took place
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The Federal Government on Thursday agreed to release N30 billion earned academic allowance to university lecturers. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr, Chris Ngige, who disclosed this to journalists at the end of a closed-door meeting between the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in Abuja, said the money would
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The Minister of State for Education, Dr. Chikwuemeka Nwajiuba, and executive members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) met on Tuesday in Abuja, in a fresh bid to avert a planned nationwide strike. Recall that ASUP had issued a 15-day ultimatum to the federal government to meet some demands dating back a few
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