The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has confirmed the arrest of the Vice-Chancellor of the Federal University, Gusau, Prof Magaji Garba in connection with an alleged N260 million contract scam. The anti-graft agency’s spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, confirmed the arrest on Monday but did not give further details. The professor was detained by the agency
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Non payment of salaries at the Caritas University, Enugu has claimed more casualties as the Vice Chancellor Prof. Vincent .C. Okorie resigns his appointment. It was gathered that his resignation is not unconnected with the vexed salary issue. The Vice Chancellor may have thrown in the trowel to wash his hands off the torture staff
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Four protesting unions of the Lagos State University (LASU) on Monday prevented the institution’s vice-chancellor Olarewaju Fagbohun, and students from gaining access to the school premises. The unions involved in the protest were the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), and the National
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As a way to curb the spread of the Coronavirus pandemic, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, SAN,of the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, has disclosed that students will resume in batches beginning from September. Speaking on a radio interview monitored in Lagos, he explained that 400, 500 and 600 levels students would resume first
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All the industrial unions in the University of Lagos, UNILAG, operating under the aegis of Joint Staff Union, JSU, are currently holding a Congress where the issue of the sack of the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, by the Governing Council is the main item on the agenda. Our correspondent, who was on the campus
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Professor Olawatoyin Ogundipe, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has been sacked by the governing council of the institution. It was learnt that his removal was announced during meeting of the Governing Council of the institution which held at the National Universities Commission (NUC) building in Abuja today. The meeting was presided over
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