Strike: FG Resumes Negotiations With University Representatives, Meets ASUU Today
The Federal Government has resumed negotiations with university union representatives. Recall that last week, the government set up Prof Nimi Briggs’s committee to renegotiate the 2009 agreement which was slated to complete its three-month timeframe by June 7, 2022. However, investigations showed that the committee will meet with the Academic Staff Union of Universities on […]
‘I’m not ready’: 2 Uvalde Victims Who Texted ‘I love you’ To Be Buried Next No One Another
In August, Annabell Guadalupe Rodriguez came home from her first day of fourth grade at Robb Elementary School and told her mom about a boy. She said the boy, Xavier James Lopez, smelled and dressed “really nice,” her mother recalled — and within weeks, the two began passing notes in class. Months later, when the weather warmed, […]
Uvalde Mass Shooting: Wounded Teacher Condemns Police As Cowards
A teacher wounded in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has criticised police as “cowards” for delaying taking action while his pupils were killed. In a harrowing interview with ABC News he said he told his students to pretend to be asleep during the shooting. Eleven of them died when the gunman stalked his and an […]
Students With Excellent UTME Scores Were Denied Admissions – Jamb
A total of 3,135 applicants who scored 300 or above on the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry exams in 2018, 2019, and 2020 were not granted admission to tertiary institutions. The number is based on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s admission figures for the three years. The data for 2018, 2019, and […]
WAEC Excludes 701 Kaduna Students From Taking Examinations
After paying N12.61 million in WAEC fees, 701 students in Kaduna State have been barred from writing the current 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WAEC. According to reports, students from nine secondary schools in the state, five government and four private, were barred from taking the exams because the uploading of their Continuous […]
ASUP Temporarily Calls Off Strike As FG Met Only Four Demands
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP has stated that the strike had not been called off completely as federal government met only four out of nine of their demands. The union had urged its members to return to work on Monday, May 30, 2022, following a two-week warning strike that began on May 16, […]
Harini Logan Rallies For National Spelling Bee Title In First-Ever Lightning-Round Tiebreaker
Harini Logan kept trying to learn from her near-misses in online spelling bees. Recognized for years as one of the best spellers in the English language, she had never taken home a national title. In the biggest bee of them all, she endured a new series of setbacks, but somehow, at the end, she was […]
Alleged Corruption: High Court Orders Seizure Of NOK University Asset In Kaduna
A federal high court sitting in Abuja, on Wednesday, ordered the interim forfeiture of each asset of NOK university, primarily based in Kaduna state.The university, built by a former Director of Finance and Account (DFA) within the Federal Ministry of fitness, Anthony Hassan, was suspected to have been constructed from the proceeds of illegal activities […]
Uvalde School Shooting Update: Official Says Police Made ‘wrong decision’ Not To Enter Classroom
A Texas official admitted law enforcement made the “wrong decision” in their response to the Robb Elementary School shooting, failing to breach the classroom for a 35-minute period as an 18-year-old gunman terrorized children inside. At a press conference on Friday, Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steven McCraw acknowledged that officers on the scene […]
FG To Disburse N34bn In Payment Of Asuu, Among Other Unions’ Salary Arrears In 2019
With effect from 2019, the Federal Government has announced that it will pay about N34 billion in minimum wage consequential adjustments to education sector workers. Members of the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, as well as their counterparts at polytechnics and colleges of education, are among the benefactors. Senator Chris Ngige, the Minister of […]
