Tag: NUC
Medical colleges’ lecturers to strike over NUC’s directive on PhD
Lecturers in Nigeria's medical colleges have threatened to go on strike if the government implements its threat to sack their colleagues yet...
NUC concluding Nigerian university system curriculum review
Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Abubakar Rasheed, said the agency was in the final stage of “a draft review’’...
NYSC, NUC probe three ESUT ‘graduates unable to write’
Three “graduates" of Enugu State University of Science and Technology mobilised to participate in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme are...
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...
Buhari to launch N18bn transportation university in Daura
All is set for President Muhammadu Buhari to lay the foundations of the University of Transportation in his hometown – Daura, Katsina...
Nigerian govt plans to convert MAUTECH to conventional university
Plans are underway to make Moddibo Adama University of Technology (MAUTECH) in Yola a conventional university by the Nigerian government.
Some mushroom universities abroad are defrauding Nigerians – NUC
The National Universities' Commission (NUC) has raised alarm over the existence of what it termed "mushroom universities" abroad.
It...
Repositioning university education in Nigeria: The OAU example
This is the text of a speech delivered by Yemi Ogunbiyi on the eve of the 2019 Convocation of the Nigerian Academy...
MDCAN wants National Hospital converted to medical university
The Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) has called on the Federal Government to convert the National Hospital, Abuja (NHA)...
NCC commits to collaborations with the academia for telecoms growth
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said the rise in tempo and sophistication of innovations in communication technology hold greater if there...