Dangote hands over 2000 capacity hostel to ABU

Business mogul, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, has donated a 2,160 capacity students’ hostel to Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria. The hostel consists of 10 blocks of fully equipped complex is worth N1.2 billion. Until this gesture facilitated...

JAMB set to release UTME results ‘next week’

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has assured candidates of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) that results would be ready from April 29. The Board’s Head of Media and Publicity, Dr Fabian...

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 Congress (NLC), Ogun State branch. Mr Bankole, a senior non-academic member...

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, misuse and abuse are what writers will continue to address....

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 in Abuja. It is named the Abuja School of Pensions and...

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 improved infrastructure in the institutions. The union is also demanding the...

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 the school to impose a “no payment of tuition, no...

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 the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Lagos Branch. Mrs Sessi who is...

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 literate all those who for one reason or the other...

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 to two universities. These are the Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS)...