Total strike looms at Nigerian universities
By Olu AJAYI (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: THE three non-teaching staff in the nation’s universities have threatened to embark on strike with effect from Monday, September 11. The unions – the National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT), Non- Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) – […]
Ex-VC, others fault JAMB over 120 cut off mark for varsities admission
By Femi SHODUNKE NIGERIA: EX-VICE Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Oyewusi Ibidapo-Obe and a group of Nigerians have taken the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB) to task over the 120 score approved as cut off mark for admission into the nation’s universities. The angry former Vice-Chancellor and other fellow citizens faulted the […]
You’re encouraging corruption in our universities, SSANU tells FG
By ‘Femi SHODUNKE NIGERIA: THE senior workers at the universities are not happy over the handling of corruption in the nation’s intellectual ivory towers. The grouse of the workers is that the Federal Government is encouraging corruption in the universities for allowing indicted Vice-Chancellors to continue to stay in office. The workers, through their […]
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 […]
FG approves eight private universities
NIGERIA: EIGHT additional private universities have joined the list of approved higher institutions in the country. The Minister of State (Education), Prof. Anthony Anwuka, gave this cheery news when addressing journalists in Abuja on Wednesday after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting. Anwuka said that government gave approval to the new universities following the […]
Nigeria: V-Cs seek autonomy on admission of students to varsities
NIGERIA: THE vice-chancellors of Nigerian universities on Tuesday demanded autonomy for their institutions in the handling of admissions for prospective students. To them, autonomy would help to address most of the problems plaguing the nation’s universities. They demanded this request from the Federal Government under the aegis of their umbrella body, Association of Vice-Chancellors […]
