Tag: education
Enhancing Teachers’ Capacity Through Technology
By Olalekan Olagunju Education is the bedrock of social and economic development. Throughout history, philosophers like Aristotle and Plato recognised…
Cultists Kill LAUTECH Student
Taiwo Okanlawon A 100 Level student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomosho, Oluwadare Ikechukwu Mba, has been hacked…
Obasanjo Visiting Rivers To Commission Schools
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is expected in Rivers State on 17 February on the invitation of the…
Admission Fraud: Nigerian Students Sue Ghana Agency
Some 124 students, most of whom are Nigerians are seeking in excess of 1 million cedis in damages against the…
Lagos Shuts 3 Illegal Private Schools
Kazeem Ugbodaga The Lagos State Government has shut three private schools for operating illegally and contravening the guidelines…
FG’s Agreement Yet To Materialise —ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, is yet to receive allocations which were agreed upon last year. This was…
Varsity teachers want local languages used in schools
Some university lecturers on Wednesday called for the re-introduction of indigenous languages for teaching primary and secondary schools students and…
Redeem LASU’s Glory
The Lagos State University, the only university that belongs to the state described as the Centre of Excellence, requires a…
FUNNAB PGD Students Threaten To Quit Over Fees
Crisis is looming at the Federal University of Agriculture, FUNNAB, Abeokuta, Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, as the Post-Graduate students of…
Akute’s Makeshift Roadside School
Right beside Akute Bus Stop, the border town that links Ogun State and Ojodu in Lagos State, an unusual spectacle…
Stop The Nonsense At UNN
By James Ubadike Every well meaning citizen must be flabbergasted at the determination of some shadowy forces to turn the…
LASU CRISIS: Lagos Assembly Grills VC
Members of the Lagos State House of Assembly, western Nigeria, on Friday grilled the management of the state owned tertiary…
We Need Our Certificates —LASU Graduates
Thousands of part-time programme graduates of the Lagos State University, Lagos, western Nigeria, now roam the streets daily in frustration…
LASU Students Disrupt Exams, Stone Vice Chancellor
Lagos State University students went on the rampage Thursday, disrupting the university’s second semester examination and destroying properties in the…
ASUP to discuss FG’s proposal
Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has expressed dissatisfaction with the Federal Government’s proposal to the union. ASUP President…
Fashola sued to provide school funding details
A human rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has dragged the Governor of Lagos State Babatunde Fashola to…
Varsity Don Calls For New Leadership Group
A university don, Professor Akin Oyebode, has said that there is the need for a new leadership group in Nigeria…
BUK to begin semester exams mid-January
The authorities of Bayero University Kano (BUK) have directed students of the institution to return to school on Wednesday, Jan.…
One Thing I Could Change To Improve Education In My Country
By Odimegwu Onwumere Reading culture is dying in Nigeria. A tiny number out of about 160 million people have healthy…
Stemming Judicial Rot
Professor Wahab Egbewole expresses grave concern about corruption in the judiciary and offers a recipe on how the tide can…
ASUU formally ends strike
Nigerian university lecturers on Tuesday formally called off a long-running strike that paralysed higher education in the country, after they…
ASUU Meets To Call Off Strike
A National Executive Council, NEC meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is ongoing at the Federal University…
Lingering ASUU Crisis
By Fola Lawal It is now five good months that the crisis between ASUU and the Federal Government has refused…
UNIJOS Will Reopen For Studies If ASUU Gives Orders
Nigeria’s Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), UNIJOS, chapter said on Tuesday that classes would only resume in the institution…
Anything Could Have Happened
Dr. Anthony Monye-Emina, an Associate Professor of Economics and Chairman, UNIBEN chapter of ASUU, who was in the vehicle with…
FG Bows To ASUU, N200b Paid Into CBN
Barely twenty four hours to the expiration of the 4 December ultimatum Federal Government gave members of the Academic Staff…
ASUU: We Are Not Aware Of Any N200b
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Dr. Nasir Fagge Issa, this morning disclosed that his union…
Iyayi: Murder Or Accident?
The nature of two holes on the late Professor Festus Iyayi’s body gives life to suspicions by his colleagues that…
ASUU Alleges Bribe Of Members
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused the federal government of taking money round campuses to influence some…
Wike’s Threat To Close Down Universities
The current crisis plaguing university education in the country has taken a turn for the worse with the Minister of…