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The immediate past Minister of State for Education Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba the Federal Government is working on a funding structure for public universities in the country as part of moves to tackle the incessant strikes by lecturers in these institutions. Nwajiuba who noted that the government’s funding of public universities is unsustainable, yesterday said he has proposed a new scheme in which universities have a different way of earning money to […]

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday signed three bills aimed at improving the anti-money laundering and counter terrorist financing/proliferation financing framework in Nigeria into law. The bills are: the Money Laundering (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2022, the Terrorism (Prevention and Prohibition) Bill, 2022, and the Proceeds of Crime (Recovery and Management) Bill, 2022. Buhari in a statement through his senior special adviser on media and publicity Femi Adesina, at a signing ceremony […]

National Universities Commission has given universities the nod to decide 30% of their curriculum content. Executive Secretary of NUC, Professor Abubakar Rasheed, stated this today at the presentation of licenses to 12 new private universities recently approved by the Federal Executive Council, FEC.

President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to consider the plight of the students and end the lingering strike. The President made the appeal at the 19th National Productivity Day Celebration and Conferment of National Productivity Order of Merit Award, held at the State House Conference Centre, Abuja.

The West African Examinations Council WAEC has challenged supervisors to work with utmost dedication and integrity for successful conduct of the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination WASSCE. The Deputy Registrar/Zonal Coordinator of the council, Ikeja, Amos Dangut, gave the advice at a workshop to brief supervisors of their roles during the conduct of the examination in Lagos yesterday. He recalled that about 650 supervisors, drawn from District One […]

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics ASUP would commence a 2-week industrial action with effect from Monday, 16th of May 2022. The Academic Staff of the polytechnics disclosed the decision today in a statement released after its emergency meeting of the Union’s National Executive Council.

Minister of State for Education Emeka Nwajiuba, has resigned his appointment as he prepares to contest for 2023 presidency. Nwajiuba, who is seeking to run for president on the platform of the All Progressives Congress APC, resigned from office today in Abuja.

The National Association of Nigeria Students NANS have expressed outrage and displeasure over the extension of the warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU,insisting that there shall be no political party primaries in Nigeria if the strike isn’t resolved. Addressing the press yesterday over their plight the Public Relations Officer of the Association, Victor Ezenagu said the directive has gone out to all the 36 chapters of […]

The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control NCDC has given the statistics for Monkeypox infection, cases and fatalities recorded in the country within the last five years, just 72 hours after health authorities in the United Kingdom announced that a traveller from Nigeria tested positive for the disease. NCDC in its latest report said the country recorded 558 cases and eight deaths across 32 states of the federation and the Federal […]