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FG affirms N485m intervention fund for public universities

Posted by admin Education, Latest Politics Saturday, June 2nd, 2012

Gwagwalada (FCT) – Prof. Ruquayyatu Rufa’i, Minister of Education on Friday said every public university in the country would receive N485 million as financial intervention for 2012. Rufa’i said this in Gwagwalada at the opening of the 17th National Delegates Conference of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). She said the money would be […]

Jonathan orders expulsion of unqualified UNIAbuja students

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Thursday, May 24th, 2012

May 24, 2012 by Olalekan Adetayo, Abuja Angered by the lingering crisis in the University of Abuja, President Goodluck Jonathan, on Wednesday, directed the Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqqayat Rufa’i, to set up a committee saddled with the responsibility of expelling all unqualified students from the school. He said information at his disposal showed that […]

UI shut for 2 weeks

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Tuesday, April 24th, 2012

THE University of Ibadan (UI) has officially been closed down for two weeks, with the purpose of finding a lasting solution to the power problems facing the institution, as well as curbing the recent students’ unrest, which has halted the academic progression of the institution in the last three days. The statement was made available […]

FG spent N3trn on education in 12 yrs —SGF (Nothing to show for this amount)

Posted by admin Education, Latest Politics Tuesday, March 27th, 2012

THE Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Senator Anyim Pius Anyim, has said the Federal Government spent N3 trillion in the education sector from 1999 till date. Senator Anyim, however, expressed displeasure that not much impact had been made to justify the expenditure. The SGF, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary, General Services […]

UTME: 1.5m candidates jostle for 500,000 admission slots

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Wednesday, March 21st, 2012

OVER 1.5 million candidates are to sit for the 2012 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations across the country on Saturday, the national examination body said on Tuesday. The candidates are to compete for about 500,000 admission slots in various tertiary institutions for the 2012/2013 academic season. Registrar of JAMB, Prof. ’Dibu Ojerinde, said this at a […]

Nigerian Universities and Unhelpful Policies – By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye Monday, March 12th, 2012

By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye, Lagos, Nigeria, March 12, 2012- Great expectations are usually piled on our universities as very essential intellectual factories for the production of reliable human resources for achieving our lofty dreams and aspirations as a people. That is what it should be. Every year, the universities are expected to give the country quality […]

Nigerian varsities fail to make top 1,600 in the world

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Sunday, February 5th, 2012

The January 2012 report of Webometrics, a world tertiary education ranking institutions organisation, has shown that only three institutions in Nigeria made the list of first 100 best universities in Africa and none in the first 1,600 in the world. The University of Benin ranked 1,639th on the global scale, the 18th in Africa and […]

Senate approves 70 years as retirement age for varsity professors

Posted by admin Education, Legislature, Senate Thursday, January 19th, 2012

The Senate, on Wednesday, approved 70 years as retirement age of university professors as it passed the bill for an Act to harmonise the retirement age of academic staff of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. With this development, the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), might be called off […]

UK council blacklists UNIJOS, UNN, other medical graduates

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Thursday, December 22nd, 2011

Minister of Education, Prof. Rugayyatu Rufa’i The British General Medical Council has barred medical graduates of nine Nigerian universities from practising in the United Kingdom. The GMC, an independent body of regulators which registers medical doctors to practise in the UK, in a directory released on Wednesday, blacklisted medical graduates that […]

ASUU gives FG conditions to suspend strike

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Wednesday, December 21st, 2011

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has given conditions to be met by the Federal Government before its two-week-old strike is suspended. The union also stressed that the current strike had nothing to do with demand for new salary, but for government to invest funds to provide facilities to enhance learning and research in the […]