SSANU ex-VP emerges NLC Ogun chair

A former National Vice-President of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Emmanuel Bankole has been elected chairperson of the Nigeria Labour...

Have more to fuel your ignorance: social media and intellectualism

Have more to fuel your ignorance: social media and intellectualism By Ganiu Bamgbose It is incontrovertible that the social media has come to stay. Its use,...

Nigeria’s first school of pension management opens in Abuja

The Nigerian government has opened a monotechnic focused to provide tertiary education for acquisition of vital skills and capacity in pension administration and management...

Why Plateau tertiary institutions are on strike

The Joint Union of Plateau Tertiary Institutions (JUPTI) said it embarked on an indefinite strike to press home its demands for more funding and...

AAUA shut after students’ fee hike protest

The management of Ondo State government-owned Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) have shut down the institution following protest by students over the decision of...

LASU staff emerges Lagos NLC chair

A senior member of staff at the Lagos State University (LASU), Funmi Agnes Sessi was on Thursday, 25th April, 2019 elected the Chairperson of...

SHOCKING: NMEC, Nigeria’s mass literacy agency has no website

The National Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education Commission (NMEC) has no website. This agency has the responsibility of making...

NUC approves two universities for NTI PGDE affiliation

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted the National Teachers' Institute (NTI) approval for the affiliation of its Postgraduate Diploma in Education (PGDE) programme...

Librarians deserve academic status, veteran librarian says

Veteran librarian, Jonathan Dipeolu has advocated academic status for professional librarians. He was the Keynote lecturer at the maiden...

ASUU faults Aisha on proposed Muhammadu Buhari University

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has taken disagreed with a proposed plan to establish a private university to be named...

EFCC detains Jonathan’s associate, Turner over UBEC ‘fake contracts’

King Turner, a very close associate of former president, Dr Goodluck Jonathan has been detained by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over...

48 ABU First class students bag Chinese govt scholarship

Forty-Eight potential first class students of Ahmadu Bello University, (ABU) Zaria, on Tuesday got a scholarship from the People’s Republic of China. News Agency of...

‘Attaining peace starts with peace education’

Early in April, about 700 people from various sectors in the society such as educators, leaders of politics and religions, women and...

OAU student ‘commits suicide’ over academic failures

A student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ilé-Ifẹ̀, Kolapo Olowoporoku has reportedly committed suicide after repeatedly failing some courses. Mr Olowoporoku who could have graduated two...

Multiple registration inflates number of candidates by 30% – JAMB

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said, that multiple registration has inflated the number of candidates registered candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation...

JAMB cancels two CBT centres’ results over ‘irregularities’

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed the cancellation of results of the recently concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from two...

Anthony Asiwaju and the Circumference of Knowledge

Emeritus Professor Anthony Asiwaju will, on 27th April, 2019 clock 80. In this piece, Professor Toyin Falola pays a tribute to the...

81 bag First Class as ABU honours Dangote, Sunmonu

81 students of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, will on Saturday be awarded a First Class degree during the institution's 2017/2018 convocation ceremonies. They...

NUGA: OAU to host trials for World University Games trials OAU

The Nigeria University Games Association (NUGA) said trials for selection of athletes for the 30th World University Games, would hold at the Obafemi Awolowo...

UTME: We’d cancel results of candidates with examination malpractices —...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (UTME) has said that once it establishes evidence of examination malpractices against any candidate who wrote the 2019...