SSANU faults Buhari on UNILAG visitation panel
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has faulted the composition of the visitation panel to investigate the crisis bedeviling the...
Finally, Buhari appoints board on disabilities agency
Nearly two years after the signing into law of the Discrimination Against Persons with Disabilities (Prohibition) Act, its implementation process had just...
Illegalities of UNILAG visitation panel and its terms of reference
By Yunus Abdulsalam
The University of Lagos saga began with the removal of the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe on...
LASU gets $4,000 worth of water quality equipment from Worldfish
Worldfish has named the Lagos State University (LASU) a ProSCAWA Centre, with the recognition attracting a donation of up to Four Thousand...
Zamfara gov lists achievements in the education sector
The Executive Governor of Zamfara State, Bello Matawalle has listed efforts of his administration to support the education sector over a year...
UNILAG gets first female VC
Folasade Ogunsola has emerged the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).
With this development, she becomes the...
Nasarawa to sack 1251 teachers
The Nasarawa state government has announced its plan to sack 1251 teachers for not possessing the requisite teaching qualification.
Govt diluting configuration of academia with IPPIS – ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has declared that the Federal Government of Nigeria is polluting and diluting the configuration of...
UNILAG acting VC resigns
Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Professor Omololu Soyombo, has resigned office.
This followed the setting up of...
UNILAG crisis: FG asks Babalakin, VC to step aside
A new twist has been added to the crisis bedeviling the University of Lagos (UNILAG) with the decision of the Federal Government...
Stakeholders disagree with NUC on creation of more varsities
Stakeholders in the education sector have disagreed on the need to establish more univerisities in the country.
While the...
Oyo shifts in common entrance, placement exams dates again
The Oyo State government has announced a shift in the earlier scheduled Common Entrance examination into its schools of science from Wednesday...
Bill to regulate tertiary institutions’ activities scales second reading
A bill for a law to regulate the activities of tertiary institutions owned and managed by the Anambra State Government has scaled...
EFCC asked to probe sacked UNILAG Vice-Chancellor
A group, Coalition of University of Lagos Student Unionists, has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe the recently...
WAEC: Officials arrested for leaking exam questions
Head of National Office, West Africa Examination Council, Patrick Areghan, has announced the arrest of some of its appointed officials engaged in...
Educators for conference on reducing the digital divide
The Global Initiative for Entrepreneurship and Capacity Development, an ICLED NGO, and ICLED xBusiness School, Lekki, Lagos, (IBS) in collaboration with her...
MURIC seeks equity for Muslims in Lagos education sector
A human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has appealed to the Lagos State government (LASG) to revisit the education sector...
Almajiranchi, a ticking time bomb needing reforms
By Rukayyah Aliyu
Almajiranchi is a system of education practised in Northern Nigeria. It involves acquiring Islamic knowledge where...
Man to spend 50 years in jail for raping UNILAG student
A surveyor, John Otema has been convicted and sentenced to 50-years imprisonment on Monday for raping a 19-year-old student of the University...
Some universities award degrees, PhDs in six months – NUC
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has lamented the rate at which some tertiary institutions across the country were awarding higher degrees within...
