Corruption: Varsity workers seek NUC’s eyes on OAU, UniAbuja, FUNAAB, FUTA
NIGERIA: STAKEHOLDERS in the intellectual ivory towers have urged the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Adamu Abubakar Rasheed, to beam his searchlight on the level of corruption going on in four universities in the country. The call came partly from the aggrieved workers in the nation’s universities who ended their […]
FUNAAB crisis: NUC summons Governing Council, management to Abuja
By Femi SHODUNKE NIGERIA: THE nation’s regulatory body for the university system, the National Universities Commission (NUC), has waded into the crisis that has engulfed the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), in Ogun State. GatewayMail learnt that the Executive Secretary of the commission, Professor Adamu Abubakar Rasheed, summoned the members of the Governing […]
Why post-UTME was scrapped, by Okojie, ex-NUC Executive Secretary
NIGERIA: THE immediate past Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Julius Okojie, has proffered the rationale behind the decision of the commission to queue behind the call for the scrapping of the post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Okojie, who was last week replaced by Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, a one-time Vice Chancellor […]
Proprietors of eight universities under probe
NIGERIA: PROPRIETORS of eight illegal universities may be sanctioned should they be found culpable in the ongoing investigation into their activities by the National Universities Commission (NUC). The NUC also blacklisted 57 other higher institutions that have been awarding illegal degrees in the country. The commission said that the proprietors have been running illegal […]
