EDUCATION

The 1st term of the 2022/2023 academic session in Anambra State ends on Friday 16th December, 2022. The 2022/2023 academic calendar of Anambra State also states that the resumption of serious academic activities for the 2nd term is 9th January, 2023. While wishing the students, teachers and parents, the best of the yuletide, the Commissioner […]

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates can now generate profile codes themselves and save such for use when registration commences. The board disclosed this in its Weekly Bulletin issued on Monday in Abuja. According to JAMB, the development is part of measures to ensure a seamless 2023 UTME registration through […]

The Naira on Thursday exchanged at 445.83 to the dollar at the Investors and Exporters window, a depreciation of 0.12 per cent, compared with the 445.30 it exchanged on Wednesday. The open indicative rate closed at N444.60 to the dollar on Thursday. An exchange rate of N447 to the dollar was the highest rate recorded […]

Best-selling Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie gives the first of four 2022 Reith Lectures inspired by Franklin D Roosevelt’s “Four Freedoms” speech. Is freedom of speech under attack? Cancel culture, and arguments about “wokeness” have produced a febrile atmosphere. Meanwhile, autocrats and populists have undermined the very notion of a fact-based truth which lives above […]

Association of Nigerian Students, NANS has apologised to Aisha Buhari, wife of President Muhammadu Buhari over the arrest of a student of the Federal University, Dutse Jigawa, Aminu Mohammed, by the police. In a statement issued by its president, Usman Barambu, on Tuesday, NANS apologised on behalf of the Nigerian students to the First Lady, […]

The University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Friday, protested the part payment of the salaries of its members by the Federal Government. ASUU has been at loggerheads with the Federal Government since October when the union suspended its eight-month strike in line with an order by the […]

A Director at the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Mrs Christy Uba, will now oversee the federal agency after President Muhammadu Buhari sacked the erstwhile Director-General, Brigadier General Muhammad Kaku Fadah. According to a statement signed by NYSC spokesperson, Eddy Megwa, Uba will oversee the agency until the President appoints a substantive Director-General.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) branch has asked the federal government to remove the Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige over protracted ASUU/government negotiation on revitalizing University education. The Union, after it open congress held on Wednesday, inside the University campus protested the prorated salaries being paid to its members […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action.  The union decided to suspend the strike during a meeting of its leadership that started on Thursday night and lasted into the early hours of Friday. In a statement by the president of the union Emmanuel Osodeke, ASUU said the decision followed […]

The Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja has granted leave to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to appeal the decision of the National Industrial Court of Nigeria delivered on the 21st of September. In a ruling delivered by Justice Hamman Barka on October 7, 2022, and made public today, the court granted ASUU […]