Education

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has denied accusations of scoring errors in the just completed 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board urged the public, particularly UTME candidates, to be…

Festus Keyamo, Nigeria's Minister of State for Labour and Employment, has revealed why the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government have unable to reach an agreement on the ongoing strike. ASUU decided on…

The Rivers State Government has approved employment of academic and non-academic staff at Ignatius Ajuru University of Education. The move is to enable the management fill up existing vacancies in the institution. Governor Nyesom…

Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta said on Sunday that the state government would provide financial support to 40 schools it returned to religious missions in 2011. Okowa said this during a thanksgiving service marking the end of the 16th Synod…

The Federal Government on Friday expressed optimism that recent agreements it reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU and other unions in the education sector would yield good fruits next week. This was contained in a…

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has concluded a review of the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) for University education in Nigeria. NUC said the BMAS was revised to Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS)…

Students at Obafemi Awolowo University in Ile-Ife, Osun State, were stopped from carrying out their planned rallies against the Academic Staff Union of Universities' ongoing strike on Thursday (ASUU). Students who had begun congregating…

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 in a statement released after its…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said there is no going back on its decision to continue with its ongoing strike following Federal Government’s failure to honour the 2009 agreement. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel…

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has launched a statewide demonstration called Operation Test Run in response to the Academic Staff Union of Universities' (ASUU) ongoing strike. Remember that lecturers who shut down…

The National Executive Council (NEC) of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has given the Federal Government a 21-day ultimatum to address the union’s demands else it will embark on industrial action. NAN reports that…

The federal government said yesterday it was looking into the report that was recently submitted by the committee on renegotiation of the 2009 FG-ASUU agreement. The government also accused the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,…

Following the extension of the three-month Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic (ASUU) strike earlier today, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has ordered students to block major roads and airports in all 36 states of the…

Barring any unforeseen circumstance, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) will on Wednesday, May 11, 2022, embark on a nationwide strike action in protest against the non-implementation of the Memorandum of Action reached with…

Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) President Emmanuel Osodeke indicated that the union's decision to extend its continuing strike for another 12 weeks was made to allow the Federal Government to address flaws in the agreement it…

The Federal Government has called Academic Staff Union of Universities leaders to discussions in Abuja today, as the union ends its two-month warning strike. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour, said on Friday that a meeting will be held…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) early Monday morning extended the ongoing strike by 12 weeks, according to The SUN Newspaper. The decision was taken at an emergency National Executive Council (NEC) held at ASUU…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities claims it received no meeting notification from the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment. The academic staff union also stated that it would decide on the next course of action after the…

About 69,828 candidates on Saturday sat for the 2022 Common Entrance Examination into the nation’s 110 unity colleges. The examination, organised by the National Examination Council (NECO), took place across the country. This year…

Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State and presidential aspirant on the platform of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) has appealed to both the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to end the ongoing…

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged applicants taking the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to be on time since the board will not change its timeline for any candidate. Mr Abdur-Rahman…

The Federal Government and striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) would resume talks next week with a view to ending the prolonged closure of public universities. Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris…

Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation, Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment and Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, Minister of State for Education, have been criticized over the N100 million Presidential nomination forms of the All…

On Thursday, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) started discussions in an attempt to reach an equitable settlement to the ongoing strike. The General…

Ibijoke Sanwo-Olu, the wife of Lagos State Governor, has warned that the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike is a ticking time bomb. Samwo-Olu claimed that the devil would find work for idle students sitting at…