The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, University of Lagos chapter, Dr Dele Ashiru, has revealed that Nigerian professors do not earn more than N416,000 as monthly salary. Ashiru disclosed this during an interview on the Sunrise Daily programmed on Channels Television, stating that university lecturers deserved better …
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PHOTOS: EKSU VC’s son graduates from Oxford University A son to Edward Olanipekun, the vice-chancellor at the Ekiti State University (EKSU), has graduated from the University of Oxford. Oxford varsity in the United Kingdom is regarded as one of the leading academic institutions in the world. Tom Olanipekun, a relative …
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One of Alaafin’s Daughters, Princess Zainab Adebunmi Adeyemi has graduated with a First Class Honours in Physiology from the Lead University in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital. The Monarch, being a proud father presented her with a car gift in appreciation of her intellectual giftedness. The pretty, slim, and athletic …
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Chris Ngige, minister of labour, says the strike threatened by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will not take place. On Monday, ASUU issued a three-week ultimatum to the federal government to implement the earlier agreement reached with the union. Speaking on Tuesday in an interview on Channels Television, …
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The management of the University of Ilorin has expelled a final-year student, Salaudeen Waliu Aanuoluwa of the Department of Microbiology after being found guilty of assaulting a female lecturer, Mrs Rahmat Zakariyau, of the same Department. A statement by the University’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr. Kunle Akogun, disclosed that …
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The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has summoned the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed; Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu; and the President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, to an emergency meeting on Thursday, November 18, 2021.
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The National Youth Service Corps has restated its readiness to uphold the sanctity of its mobilisation process. It said it would resist every form of sharp practices from some Corps Producing Institutions in some African countries, while soliciting the support of the Federal Ministry of Education, Ministry of Foreign Affairs …
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The Lagos State Government headed by Govenor Sanwo-Olu has made provision for the two students in the state who achieved the best results in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) conducted last year to get on a scholarship of N200,000 every year. The two beneficiaries, Abiodun Anuoluwapo Favor, …
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Anambra Governor-Elect, Charles Chukwuma Soludo emphasized the value of education as he shared a throwback photo of himself during his university days on his Facebook page, Newsextra24 reports. He said that education released him from what would have become a generational trap in the dynasty of poverty, and turned his …
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the umbrella for lecturers in Nigerian universities, has rejected the report submitted by a committee in its Owerri, Imo State zone, on the appointment of Nigeria’s minister of communications and digital economy, Isa Ibrahim, popularly known as Pantami, as a professor of cybersecurity …
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