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Articles, Columnists, Education, NNP Columnists, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye
Sunday, October 16th, 2022
By Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye | Lagos, Nigeria | October 16, 2022 – Now, let’s face it: there can only be one reason why the industrial action embarked upon by the teachers of Nigeria’s public universities since February 14 has been allowed to waste a whole seven months of the academic pursuit of many youths, and, indeed, their […]
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Education, Headlines
Saturday, September 17th, 2022
President Muhammadu Buhari on Friday met with the Chairman and select members of Pro-Chancellors of Federal Universities, promising to engage in further consultations with relevant stakeholders, towards ending the protracted strike by university lecturers, under the aegis of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). According to a statement signed by Special Adviser to the President […]
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Education, Headlines
Monday, August 29th, 2022
After a series of heated discussions, the Academic Staff Union of Universities has decided to extend its ongoing strike, The PUNCH reliably learnt. The decision was taken after the National Executive Council meeting at the union’s headquarters at the University of Abuja on Monday morning. ASUU had declared the commencement of a strike on Monday, February 14, […]
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Education, Headlines
Thursday, August 18th, 2022
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu on Thursday said the Federal Government would not pay salaries of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) who had been on strike over the past six months He insisted that government would strictly apply strictly the “no work, no pay policy” stressing that the striking lecturers would […]
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Articles, Columnists, Education, Leonard K. Shilgba, PhD, NNP Columnists, Presidency
Wednesday, August 17th, 2022
By Dr. Leonard K. Shilgba | NNP | August 17, 2022 MY THOUGHTS ON ASUU STRIKE Lagos State universities are not on strike! I am yet to understand why academic staff of state-owned universities often abandon their classrooms when ASUU declares a trade dispute with the Federal Government, not State Governments, over noncompliance with agreements […]
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Education, Headlines, Soccer, Sports
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022
Super Eagles striker and captain, Ahmed Musa, has expressed his dissatisfaction and disappointment with Nigerian leaders over their lackadaisical approach to the ongoing ASUU strike. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been at loggerheads with the government over the welfare and running of Nigerian Universities for over twenty years. And the status quo […]
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Anambra, Education, Headlines, State News
Wednesday, January 5th, 2022
Tansian University awards 5,000 ex-sex workers scholarships Tansian University, Umunya, Anambra Tansian University, Umunya, Anambra has awarded full scholarships to 5,000 repentant commercial sex workers and vulnerable people. Prof. Marcel Ezenwoye, the National President, CIEPUK, made this known in Abuja on Tuesday. The scholarships were awarded in partnership with Chartered Institute of Educational Practitioners, U.K. […]
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Education, Headlines, Lagos, State News
Sunday, October 3rd, 2021
With the appointment of professor of Physiology, Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, as the ninth substantive vice-chancellor of Lagos State University, experts have silenced critics, proving her appointment was based on merit and not ethnicity. Funmi Ogundare reports The appointment of Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello as the ninth substantive vice-chancellor of the Lagos State University (LASU) has been a […]
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Education, Headlines
Tuesday, August 3rd, 2021
The Federal Government says the meeting with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) aimed at evaluating the implementation of the Memorandum of Action (MOA) entered into by the parties is successful. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige said this while addressing newsmen at the end of a close-door meeting on Monday […]
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Education, Latest Politics, South-East
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021
By Waliat Musa Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has described as ‘Igbophobic’, discriminatory and unconstitutional, the decision by President Muhammadu Buhari to approve the establishment of specialised technology-based and health universities in five of the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria while excluding the Igbo-speaking South East. HURIWA wondered what the Minister of State in […]
