The University of Abuja chapter of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) started a two-week warning strike on Monday over the failure of government to implement a visitation panel report. Dr Clement Chup, the Chairman, University of Abuja branch of ASUU, who disclosed this at a press conference, said Federal Government’s delay in implementing the [...]
Unidentified gunmen have invaded the home of the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde. The gunmen suspected to be hired assassins, invaded his home in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital, in search of him. Luckily, he was not at home when they arrived by scaling the fence in his home. Sources [...]
Nigeria’s National Economic Council (NEC) on Thursday approved the upgrade of six federal universities to mega tertiary institutions with absorptive capacity of 150,000 students to 200,000 students each. Gov. Peter Obi of Anambra state disclosed this when he briefed State House correspondents in Abuja on the outcome of the Council’s meeting presided over by Vice [...]
The Civil Society Action Coalition on Education For All, says Nigeria needs to recruit at least 200,000 teachers by 2015 to achieve the Education For All (EFA) target. Mrs. Chioma Osuji, the Acting Policy Adviser of the organisation, an NGO, made this known in Abuja on Wednesday at an event to mark the Global Action [...]
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned candidates, who will sit for the 2013 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to desist from examination malpractice. Its Registrar, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, who gave the warning in Abuja on Wednesday at a news conference, said that candidates found wanting would be made to face the full [...]
The Minister of State for Education, Mr Nyesom Wike, said on Thursday that the Federal Government had not scrapped the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the National Examination Council (NECO). Wike said this in Abuja when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Education to refute media reports that the Federal Government had [...]
Professor Oluyemisi Obilade, the Vice-Chancellor, Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, has warned lecturers and students against sexual harassment. Obilade gave the warning on Wednesday in Ijebu-Ode. The vice chancellor said the management of the university was passionate about the issue of sexual harassment and would evolve relevant regulations to tackle it. [...]
