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Opinion: Task before Nigerian students

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Monday, October 21st, 2013

Eze Onyekpere | credits: File copy Project Nigeria is not working but the leaders and managers are in denial. They do not care and are in a great party mood while Nigeria burns. From the trajectory of developments in virtually all spheres of life, there is also little hope that it is about to […]

Asari-Dokubo establishes own university in Benin Republic

Posted by admin Africa & World Politics, Education, General Politics, Headlines, Top Stories Saturday, October 12th, 2013

The leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, NDPVF, Mr. Muhajid Asari-Dokubo has joined the swelling rank of private university proprietors with his establishment of a university in the neighbouring Republic of Benin, PREMIUM TIMES reported on Friday. Asari-Dokubo, who already owns a soccer academy in the West African country and another one […]

Lamido blames ASUU’s strike on lack of trust

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Saturday, September 28th, 2013

-Vanguard Dutse – Gov. Sule Lamido of Jigawa on Saturday appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end the ongoing strike in the interest of the students. Lamido made the appeal when he received a delegation from the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in Dutse. He said it was […]

FG approves five-year jail term for exam cheats ( How many years for embezzlers?)

Posted by admin Education, Latest Politics, Top Stories Thursday, September 5th, 2013

The Federal Executive Council has approved the amendment to an Act of the West African Examinations Council, part of which will make culprits of examination malpractice to be liable to five-year jail term or N200,000 fine or both. The Minister of Education, Prof Ruqayyat Rufai, announced this in Abuja on Wednesday while briefing State House […]

What is the Problem With ASUU? – By Ayodeji Sunday

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists Sunday, September 1st, 2013

By Ayodeji Sunday – Lagos, Nigeria | Sept. 1, 2013 – As an undergraduate, having experienced firsthand the rot that pervades our universities, I became a keen sympathiser with the cause of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU). I believe that university teachers have the right to good working conditions. Education can only be […]

A Strike Too Many – By Arnold A. Alalibo

Posted by admin Arnold Alalibo, Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

By Arnold A. Alalibo | NNP | August 27, 2013 – The Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities, ASUU, took the nation by storm recently when it declared an indefinite strike action to press home the implementation of an agreement it reached with the federal government in 2009 and a Memorandum of Understanding, MOU, it […]

Opinion: Don’t blame ASUU, urge the Federal Government

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Tuesday, August 27th, 2013

The negative reaction of the General Olusegun Obasanjo administration to the university students’ nationwide protests in April 1978 against the sudden hike in tuition by his administration marked a turning point in the decline in university education in Nigeria. University campuses were quickly occupied by the riot police as students kept chanting Alli Must Go, […]

ASUU strike: Jonathan approves N400bn lifeline –SSANU

Posted by admin Education, Latest Politics, National Politics, Top Stories Sunday, August 18th, 2013

By BIMBOLA OYESOLA The end to the present strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be in sight as President Goodluck Jonathan has approved N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities. The document to this effect is expected to be made available today at the meeting of the presidential committee […]

We can’t meet ASUU’s N92bn demand – FG

Posted by admin Education, Headlines, Top Stories Tuesday, August 13th, 2013

THE Federal Government on Tuesday said it did not have the resources to meet the N92bn financial demand by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, at the opening of a two-day meeting of Commissioners of Finance and Accountants-General of states, said the N92bn being demanded by the university lecturers […]

Agreement with ASUU impossible to implement —FG

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Wednesday, July 24th, 2013

THE Federal Government declared on Tuesday that the 2009 Agreement signed with ASUU is practically impossible for any administration to implement, but assured that very soon, the issue and crisis would be finally resolved. Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, made this known when he appeared before the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National […]