The enrolment for the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System did not start in universities on Monday as officials from the Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation had yet to arrive at institutions. The PUNCH, however, gathered that the exercise would start fully on Tuesday (today) as officials arrived in the universities on Monday […]
The rot in Nigeria’s educational system is costing the country hundreds of millions of dollars. Over the past academic year, the economic impact of spending by Nigerian students studying in the United States reached $514 million, data from the US State Department shows. The figure outstrips the economic impact of students from France, Germany and […]
The Federal Government and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are set to slug it out over the implementation of the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) as the latter has directed all its members across the country to ignore a circular intended to be used for their enrollment today. […]
An 18-year-old Nigerian, Peter Arotiba from Kogi State, has been awarded the National Distinction and Merit Award by the West Africa Examination Council for emerging overall best student in the 2018 examinations. Arotiba, who is currently studying Medicine and Surgery at the University of Ibadan, graduated from the Nigeria Air Force Secondary School, Ikeja, Lagos […]
Some students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), Enugu State, have kicked against an upcoming conference on witchcraft. TheCable had reported that the conference being organised by the B.I.C Ijomah Centre for Policy and Research in UNN, will hold between November 26 and November 27. As the date draws nearer, members of the university […]
The West African Examinations Council on Friday released the results of 91,225 private candidates that sat for the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination in Nigeria. The Head of the Nigeria National Office of WAEC, Mr Olu Adenipekun, in a statement said a total of 97,080 candidates registered for the examination in Nigeria, out […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said that parents or any third party of candidates sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination are henceforth not allowed to access the candidates’ profiles and make any correction, except the candidates themselves. The board also warned its zonal and state offices nationwide not to “transact any business […]
The federal government said it is stopping the salaries of lecturers, especially members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), because of its rejection of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). This the government noted is in line with President Muhammadu Buhari’s directive that all federal workers not captured in the IPPIS […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is preparing to shut down academic activities in universities across Nigeria, following the October deadline for all employees of the Federal Government in Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to enroll in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information Systems (IPPIS). The Federal Government through a presidential directive had said […]
The Senate on Wednesday revisited the sexual harassment bill passed by the 8th Senate. The 8th Senate had proposed a five-year sentence and N5m fine for lecturers convicted for sexually harassing male or female students. However, the passing of the bill into law had a setback because it was not given Presidential assent after its […]