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Strike: ASUU chases ESUT lecturers from offices

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Saturday, December 17th, 2011

By Tony Edike, Enugu LECTURERS of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT)who failed to comply with the strike directive of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) were yesterday chased out of their offices by the union’s monitoring team. The defiant lecturers who were mainly of the Faculties of Management Sciences and Engineering […]

Interesting Cartoon: ASUU strike grounds varsities

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Tuesday, December 6th, 2011

BY OUR REPORTERS ACADEMIC activities in the nation’s public universities grounded to a halt as members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday made good their threat to embark on indefinite strike to force the Federal Government to implement the 2009 FGN/ASUU agreement over two years after. Leaders of ASUU under the aegis […]

Lecturers cripple universities, begin indefinite strike

Posted by admin Education, National Politics, Top Stories Sunday, December 4th, 2011

BY JIMITOTA ONOYUME PORT HARCOURT: UNIVERSITY lecturers across the country begin an indefinite strike from today. National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Ukachukwu Awuzie who made this known Sunday in Port Harcourt said this time the strike would be” total and comprehensive”. According to him, there would be no grading […]

Jonathan laments Nigerian universities ranking

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Friday, November 25th, 2011

Zaria (Kaduna) – President Goodluck Jonathan on Thursday in Zaria, Kaduna State, lamented the inability of any Nigerian university to feature among the top 300 top class universities in the world. Jonathan said in a message to the 35th convocation of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) that the situation was unacceptable. Represented by the Minister of […]

At Redeemers University, female students excel more than males

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Tuesday, November 1st, 2011

With a cumulative grade point average of 4.96, 19-year-old Ayomide Abiodun Oluwadare emerged the best overall graduating student of Redeemers University, Ogun State for the year 2011. For three consecutive times, female students of the university have beaten their male counterparts in this academic race. Oluwadare, with registration number, RUN 07-08/1413, was among the 21 […]

Igbo leaders brainstorm on funding tertiary institutions

Posted by admin Education, Headlines, South-East Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

The downward trend being experienced in the education sector, particularly the higher institutions has been blamed on a dysfunctional system of the system and underfunding in different secondary and tertiary institutions in the country. This was the thrust of the first ‘Civil Society Summit on the Structure and Funding of 21st Century Higher Education in […]

FG Releases N38bn to 30 Universities (Yet Mogadishu Univ is ahead of us)

Posted by admin Education, Headlines Saturday, October 1st, 2011

THE National Universities Commission (NUC) has announced that it has given a whopping sum of N37,508,886,097.53 to the 30 federal universities and inter-university centres across the country. The amount, the commission said, included overhead and personnel cost for the months of January to July, 2011 which represented the first, second and third quarters of the year. The […]

The Shame of Nigerian Professors and Universities – By Phil Tam-Al Alalibo

Posted by admin Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists, P Monday, September 26th, 2011

By Phil Tam-Al Alalibo, NNP – Sept. 26, 2011 – Last week, the long awaited list of university rankings in Africa was released, specifically, the top one hundred high performing universities (in Africa). The list was published on the http://www.newnigerianpolitics.com website (see complete list below) and when I saw it before glancing through, I was […]

FG’s bid to stop ASUU strike fails

Posted by admin Education, Latest Politics, NNP Spotlight Sunday, September 25th, 2011

A tripartite meeting called at the instance of the Federal Government to stop the Academic Staff Union of Universities’ strike has ended in a deadlock. Consequently, the one-week strike will begin (today), thereby forcing some universities, including the University of Ibadan to postpone their semester examinations. One of our correspondents learnt that a series […]

ASUU begins warning strike September 26

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

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to commence a one-week nationwide strike as from September 26, 2011 to protest the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement between it and the Federal Government. The ASUU Zonal Coordinator, Bauchi zone, Dr Usman Abubakar, who disclosed this at a press conference in Jos said the union […]