NECO, 11 others paid N7.6bn on contracts not executed – AuGF

The National Examinations Council (NECO) and eleven other federal agencies paid over N7.6 billion to contractors for projects or services never rendered. Records from the Auditor-General of the Federation...

Nigeria: On giving respect and being respected

By Kareem Shamsudeen Since the human system is a complex of relationships marked by age difference, it is expected that there should be a mutual understanding among one another...

UNIABUJA sacks two professors over misconducts

The Governing Council of the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) has approved the termination of appointment of two professors for various acts of misconduct. The affected professors are Adeniji Abiodun,...

Lagos reviews school curriculum implementation

Over 200 hundred teachers from various State Schools converged at the Education Resource Centre, Ojodu, to review the Lagos State Senior Secondary Schools Unified Schemes of Work to actualise conformity with the...

Boko Haram: College lecturer, 10 other kidnap victims beg for freedom

A college lecturer and 10 other persons who were recently kidnapped by Boko Haram have appeared in a video, shared by their abductors, asking the Nigerian government to come to their rescue.

In 48 hours, another OAU lecturer dies

Less than 48 eight hours after unknown gunmen killed a Professor of Paediatrics of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Jerome Elusiyan, the death has been announced of another lecturer in the institution, Victoria...

Pastor impregnates JSS 3 student

The Ogun State Police Command has confirmed the arrest of one Sunday Adelaja for allegedly defiling and impregnating a 16-year-old Junior Secondary School 3 student. Adelaja reportedly defiled the...

OAU professor murdered in Edo

Suspected gunmen, on Friday, killed a professor at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Jerome Elusiyan. Elusiyan until his death was the chairman, Medical Advisory committee (CMAC) of Obafemi Awolowo...

Legislators to investigate NUC for ‘extortion’ in university accreditation processes

The Nigerian House of Representatives has resolved to investigate allegations of corrupt practices in university accreditation exercises conducted by the National Universities Commission (NUC). The House resolved that its...

Why international students are less than 1 percent in Nigerian higher institutions

A committee on the review of admissions into the Nigerian tertiary institutions has recommended a new framework to globalise operations at the universities. This is as it noted that...