Five Students Hospitalized As Fire Guts Lagos Law School
No less than five people have been sent to the hospital after a fire broke out on Wednesday night, destroying a part of the Nigeria Law School’s Lagos campus on Ozumba Mbadiwe Street in Victoria Island, Lagos. According to reports, the incident created a commotion among the occupants, who fled in different directions to avoid […]
Colleges Of Education Lecturers Threaten To Join ASUU Strike
Merely 48 hours after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) declared a one-month strike, lecturers across Colleges of Education in the country, have professed that they would not waver to join their counterparts in the universities on their ongoing strike. The lecturers, under auspices of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) said […]
Ekiti 400-Level Student Is Facing Charges Of N4.7 Million Fraud In Court
Ayodeji Aderobaki, a 400-level student at Ekiti State University’s Department of Philosophy in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, has been arraigned before a magistrate court in Yaba, Lagos State, for allegedly defrauding one Tobbena Okolo of N4.7 million. In August 2021, Aderobaki was accused of defrauding Okolo of the sum. The 22-year-old was charged with three counts […]
ASUU Issues A One-month Strike Notice
ASUU, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, has decided to go on a one-month warning strike to see if the federal government responds to its demands before taking further action. The decision was made after extensive discussions between the academic union and the National Executive Council, or NEC. It previously reported that ASUU began a […]
Senate Approved Six Additional Law School Campuses
The creation of six additional campuses for the Nigerian Law School was approved by the Senate on Tuesday, as part of a bill that seeks to increase the country’s Law School campus count from six to twelve. This follows the adoption of the recommendation of the Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights, and Legal Matters, […]
ASUU Starts Mobilization Of Members For Likely Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has started a nationwide mobilization of its members to update them on the discussions between the union and the Federal Government, before deciding its next line of action. Although the national body of ASUU has kept mum to inquiries regarding its directives to have a lecture-free day in […]
ASUU, Tired Of FG’s Delayed Decision, Embarks On An Indefinite Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Friday threatened to embark on a planned strike in response to the Federal Government’s delayed decision to address the lingering university issue. The IPPIS defense, according to ASUU, was shameful, stating that it was implemented fraudulently, as indicated in the 2021 report submitted by the Auditor General […]
Reps Charge Tertiary Education, Others 10-year Action Plan To Produce Electric Car
The House of Representatives has charged its committees on Tertiary Education and Services, Land Transport, Environment, and Science and Technology with collaborating with stakeholders to develop a 10-year action plan to improve the research capabilities of Nigeria’s tertiary institutions to improve the automobile industry. This comes as the House has encouraged the federal government to […]
Five-year-old Hanifa: Kano Govt Revokes Operating Licenses Of All Private Schools
The state government has revoked the operational licenses of all private schools in Kano. Sunusi Sa’id Kiru, the state Commissioner of Education, said this during a press conference on Monday. The licenses were revoked in relation to the case of 5-year-old Hanifa Abubakar, who was kidnapped and then killed by Abdulmalik Tanko, the proprietor of […]
Nigeria’s University Lecturers Extend Strike Deadline To February
Following the intervention of the Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC), the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said that it will wait till February for the outcome of the mediatory talks between the federal government and the religious body. The 50-member NIREC, under the Co-chairmanship of the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III; and […]
