OAU Graduates 5, 852 as 130 students Bag First Class
As Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife holds her 46th convocation no fewer than 130 Out of 5,852 graduating students will bag first class Bachelor degrees while 1,323 and 1,991 others will receive Second Class Upper and Second Class Lower degrees respectively. The Vice-Chancellor of the University, Simeon Bamire, disclosed this on Monday at a press conference […]
Oyo State Governor, Makinde Upgrade Emmanuel Alayande College Of Education To Varsity, Signs Bill
Oyo State Governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde has officially signed into law a bill to upgrade Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo to a university status, thus bringing the number of state owned universities in the state to three. According to news made available to newsmwn I Ibadan while signing the bill into law on Monday […]
Salary Withheld: We may start ‘no pay, no work’ || ASUU President
The National President Of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has said Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, may embark on ‘no pay, no work’ policy if the Federal Government continues to insist on not paying them their withheld eight months salaries. Speaking in a chat with Vanguard on Wednesday, he said the union […]
Half salary: Nigerians Should Expect ‘Mother Of All Strike’, ASUU Gives Notice
THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Monday called on Nigerians to prevail on the federal government to pay its members their withheld eight-month salaries to avert a fresh crisis in the nation’s universities. The union alerted that the looming crisis would surpass previous one experienced in the nation’s university if the federal government failed […]
UK could ban some foreign students to reduce immigration
Downing Street indicated that plans to bring overall numbers down could include putting up barriers for international students’ loved ones and restricting admissions to top universities. This would be in line with proposals being explored by Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who has previously complained about foreign students “bringing in family members who can piggyback onto […]
20m-Out-of-school Children in Nigeria call for debate | Obasanjo
The Former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday warned that the almost 20 million out-of-school children remain a fertile ground for breeding another insurgency in the country in the future. Obasanjo gave the warning during the opening of a two-day national summit on Tertiary Education Reform organised by the Office of the Speaker of the […]
Education Is Not The Yardstick To Success – Rapper, Chinko Ekun Speaks
Popular Nigerian rapper, Chinko Ekun has talked about the correlation between education and success. The rapper said that while he feels education is not a fraudulent venture, it is however not the yardstick to success. According to the rapper, a child needs to be taught how to “catch up with technology and how the world […]
World’s oldest pupil dies in Kenya aged 99
The world’s oldest primary school student, Priscilla Sitieni, has died at aged 99 in Kenya after developing a chest complication. According to The Standard newspaper, her grandson, Sammy Chepsiror, said that Gogo Priscilla (Granny Priscilla), as she was fondly known, died at home on Wednesday. Chepsiror added that, “Gogo has been in good health and […]
Half Salary: ASUU Members Won’t Be Paid For Work Not Done – FG
The federal government has insisted that members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will not be paid for work not done. On Wednesday, at the state house in Abuja, Adamu Adamu, minister of education, dismissed allegations that the federal government was trying to treat lecturers as causal workers by paying them on a […]
State Government approves Promotional exams for teachers
At least 3,700 teaching and non-teaching staff of the Kwara State Teaching Service Commission will sit for the 2022 promotion examination in the state, a statement by the commission’s press secretary, Olajide Abolarin, has said. According to the statement, the state governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, has approved the conduct of promotion examinations for all categories of […]