THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, vowed not to participate in the 2019 general elections. President of the union, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi disclosed this in a bulletin. This came as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, said that ad hoc staff, to be deployed for the conduct of the 2019 elections would undergo […]
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige will lead the federal government team, including the Ministers of Finance and that of the National Budget and Planning to a crucial meeting today with the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC), Trade Union Congress (TUC) and other labour unions, as part of his efforts to avert the planned […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N161 billion for the 2019 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) intervention activities in Nigerian universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. The Executive Secretary, TETFund, Dr Abdullahi Baffa, made the disclosure in Abuja yesterday at a news conference with journalists. Baffa explained that the approval of TETFund 2018 Intervention Guidelines of […]
The founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti(ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola(SAN), has decried the poor funding of public universities, saying this accounts for the despicable condition of university education in the country. Babalola said the Federal Government has consistently underfunded the education sector, with government allocating only seven percent of the national budget to education. […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it may not honour further calls by Federal Government for a meeting on the way forward over the current strike by its members. The union’s National President, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, said this on the sideline of a news conference on the update of the union’s struggle to […]
THE negotiations between Federal Government and Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Monday ended in deadlock again. The ASUU delegation walked out of the meeting which lasted for hours at the instance of the Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, at the Conference Haill of the ministry. The meeting was convened to ensure […]
Peter Ngene, Soji Cole and Prof. Isidore Diala on Friday night emerged winners of the 2018 Nigeria Prize for Science, Literature and Literary Criticism respectively. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the Nigeria Prize for Science, Literary Criticism and Literature is sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited. Ayo Banjo, Chairman of the Advisory Board […]
The President, Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Dr Muhammed Idris, on Thursday advised the Federal Government to review retirement age of teachers to 65 years. Idris gave the advice at a news conference to mark the 2018 World Teachers’ Day in Abuja. According to Wikipaedia, the free encyclopaedia, the World Teachers’ Day, also known as […]
Mr Hamid Bobboyi, Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), has said that the number of out-of-school children increased from 10.5 million to 13.2 million between 2010 and 2015. Bobboiyi made this known in Abuja on Thursday at a Pre-conference briefing on Northern Nigeria Traditional Rulers Conference on Out-of-school children. Bobboyi, who was represented by […]
In a move to impact financial knowledge on Nigerian youths, Stanbic IBTC Bank, in partnership with Creative Youth Community Development Initiative, a Wole Soyinka Foundation, has organized a Financial Literacy forum for students of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State during which they were taken through basis issues in finance, banking and the economy. Apart from […]