By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum on Tuesday at Buratai village in Biu Local Government Area commissioned a newly built mega school with capacity for 1,500 students. Zulum also directed the recruitment of an additional 20 teachers to be selected from the host community...
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By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Zulum on Wednesday in Biu town, commissioned a 60-classroom community school for higher Islamic studies, built and donated by the state government. Zulum arrived Biu town on Tuesday and passed the night, before today’s commissioning of the higher Islamic...
Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, has urged parents/guardians to be courageous as schools resume, saying kids resuming in new classes happen to be a critical season of ‘Back to school’. The renowned actress, tuned politician, who took to her Instagram page @tontolet to give the advice, said the resumption of...
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) on Tuesday said its members in the nation’s tertiary institutions would continue to occupy major highways in protest against the ongoing nationwide strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). They spoke one after the other at Sagamu interchange on Lagos-Ibadan...
Some undergraduates have resorted to learning different kinds of skills following the continuous Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) strike. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja reports that ASUU had continued to extend the strike over what its alleged Federal Government’s failure to implement the...
The Federal government on Monday urged the National Industrial Court to order the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to call off its seven months strike. Joined as a claimant in the matter is the Minster of Education, with the President of ASUU as sole defendant. The matter which...
The Presidential candidate of Social Democratic Party (SDP), Mr Adewole Adebayo, says funding of tertiary education in Nigeria should be put under the Tertiary Education Fund (Tetfund) and not government. Adebayo made the assertions on Sunday shortly after the inauguration of the party’s South-West Zonal Office in Ibadan. The...
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and five university students have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari, asking the court to “declare unlawful the refusal by the Federal Government to meet ASUU’s demands, which has occasioned the prolonged strike action and violated the students’ right to quality education.”...
Prof. Musa Maitafsir, the Director, National Teachers’ Institute (NTI), Kaduna, says it will build the capacity of 5,000 teachers across Nigeria. Maitafsir disclosed this in an Interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. The Director said that the gesture followed the approval of the...
By THOMAS AKASE, Makurdi – The Parents/Stakeholders Forum (PSF) of the Benue State University Makurdi, has appealed to its ASUU members to pull out of the national body of the union to enable them to catch up with accumulated academic calendar years. The parents and stakeholders made the appeal...
The National Association of Seadogs, Sahara Deck Abuja City Centre, has called on government at all levels to enforce the compulsory education policy, to tackle problem of out-of-school children. Mr Olamide Oni, the association’s head, made the during the week in Abuja at a news conference to commemorate the...
No fewer than 22 supposed retired Directors and Deputy Directors in the Federal Ministry of Education have been re-appointed as Principals of some Federal Government Colleges, FGCs, PRNigeria has learnt. They were re-appointed after participating in a Computer Based Test, CBT, on the 16th, 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th...
Mr Usman Abubakar-Rimi, a Medicine and Surgery final year student in the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS), has turned to street food vendor due prolonged industrial action by University lecturers. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Friday in Sokoto, Abubakar-Rimi said he conceived the...
The Federal Government says it is collaborating with security agencies to ensure adequate security of schools ahead of resumption on Sept. 12. The Minister of State for Education, Mr Goodluck Opiah, stated this during a news conference to herald the preparations for the 2022 edition of the International Day...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Provost of Umar Ibn Ibrahim El Kanemi College of Education, Science and Technology Bama, Hajiya Yagana Kyari has appealed to Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno to rescue the college by reinstating cases of staff, whose salary have been withheld since 2016 during the...
The Emir of Daura, Alhaji Faruk Umar-Faruk, says Katsina State is not backward in terms of girl-child education as it is being perceived in some quarters. The emir made the statement when he received members of Girl Education Project (GEP-3) who were on a follow- up visit to his...
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT SEEMS TO BE READY TO LET THE LAWS OF ITS UNIVERSITIES TO WORK WITHOUT INTEREFERENCE: The Governing Council of each federal university is the appropriate agency to engage its staff on ALL matters affecting them, not “Government”. Furthermore, the Public Service Rule (PSR) provides that all...
Prof. Suleiman Khalid, Chairman, Kebbi State Universal Basic Education Board (KBSUBEB), said that the board had stepped-up efforts to return 750,000 out-of-school children to classroom across the state. Khalid announced the plan of the board when a delegation on Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA) Implementation Support Team...
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu has said the Federal Government is considering an upward review of the salary of tertiary institutions’ lecturers to 23.5 per cent. The minister said salaries of professors would also be reviewed by 35 per cent. Adamu disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja...
Many parents and candidates seeking admission into the universities for the 2022/2023 academic session have shifted their interest to private universities. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) survey in Abia shows that private universities have become feasible alternatives due to the lingering strike by lecturers in public universities. The...