Sex-for-marks former lecturer of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Richard Iyiola Akindele was on Monday sentenced to two years in prison. Akindele was dragged to court for demanding sex to pass one of his students, Monica Osagie. He had…
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, will again engage the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday (tomorrow) to round up the negotiation on the suspension of the strike by Asuu. Asuu had on 5th…
The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) will start a three-day nationwide protest on Monday over the Federal Government disobedience to court judgment on the issue of staff schools and failure of government to implement an agreement reached with…
No fewer than nine thousand, five hundred and forty nine (9,549) students were on Friday awarded various academic certificates in both National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) categories by the management of the Polytechnic, Ibadan. Rector of the…
The National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education is focusing on strategies to increase literacy level as more than 38 per cent of Nigerians were illiterate. Its Executive Secretary, Prof. Abba Haladu, told the News Agency of Nigeria…
A lecturer in one the Universities in the Southeast ‘transformed’ into Spiderman to attend to his students. The unnamed lecturer was spotted on Wednesday morning walking into his office in Spiderman costume. It was gathered that some non-teaching staff present…
The federal government on Tuesday resumed talks with the leaders of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over the ongoing strike in public universities which entered a month today. The crucial meeting has in attendance the national president of…
Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Deji Omole has described the federal government as shameless for owing lecturers seven years of unpaid earned academic allowances and still want them to continue to…
Kogi-Born Emmanuel Oluwasayomi Ahmadu, Popularly known as “Mr Voiceover” is a graduating student from the department of Mass Communication, University of Benin. Mr Voiceover is proficient and endowed with many talents. Among others, He is a Voice-Over Artiste, a budding…
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) Abia State Chapter on Monday marched through the streets of Umuahia protesting against the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) nationwide strike. The protesters, who carried placards with different inscriptions, appealed to…
A university graduate has died in a really horrific manner just one day before going to take part in the NYSC. A young Nigerian man who graduated in 2017 from the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, formerly known as Anambra State…
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) is set to arraign a former lecturer of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Professor Richard Iyiola Akindele, at the Federal High Court, Osogbo. Akindele was accused of demanding sex…
A computer science graduate of the University of Jos, Amos Lucky, paraded alongside nine other suspected cult group members on Wednesday said he was lured into cultism in University, and by a final year law student of the institution, NAN…
The Lagos state government has given a go ahead to Muslim female pupils to use hijab in public schools. The development was announced in a circular by the state’s area unit of the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN). A…
The failure of 24 states to access the intervention fund from the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) meant for educational development of children across the country has left child education in a state of arrested development. Nigeria has one of…
In a bid to reposition the Ekiti State University Teaching Hospital, Ado-Ekiti as a leading tertiary health care institution, the Ekiti State Governor, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has approved the establishment of a Fact Finding Committee to look into the activities…
The Management of the University of Ilorin on Tuesday disclosed that it had hiked its school fees by 35 per cent. Mr Kunle Akogun, the spokesman of the university, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) that the initial increment…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has described the Federal Government’s promises as cheap, saying its members would not be swayed by them. ASUU President Professor Abiodun Ogunyemi said this during an interview on a Lagos-based national television programme…
Seventy-nine school students were kidnapped on Monday in an English-speaking region of Cameroon where separatists are fighting an armed campaign for independence, a government source said. The students were abducted along with their principal, a teacher and a driver, the…
The Chairman of the Governing Council, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, Dr. Yemi Ogunbiyi, has charged all categories of staff to ensure the restoration of the glory of the institution and realisation of the dream of the founding fathers. He…