Education

A member of the House of Representatives, Solomon Bob, has faulted the Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, over his comment in a recent live programme that Rivers State was not attracting federal projects, including the ongoing construction of rail lines ...

Worried about the seemingly intractable face-off between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government, the House of Representatives yesterday resolved to intervene in the crisis. The resolution followed the adoption of a motion by Dachung Bagos ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said it decided to call its members out for a two-week warning strike because of the Federal Government’s inability to pay salaries of lecturers who are not enrolled into the Integrated Personnel and ...

University of Benin (UNIBEN) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday decried the incessant abduction of lecturers and students of the institution by herdsmen. ASUU Chairman of the university, Professor Monday Omoregie and Secretary, Dr. Fabian Amaechina, ...

Indications have emerged that perceived illegal composition of the governing council of the University of Port Harcourt may mar selection of the institution’s next Vice Chancellor this year. Some academics under the aegis of the Committee of UNIPORT Stakeholders have ...

A Lagos High Court sitting in Ikeja has sentenced a former ad-hoc lecturer of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akin Baruwa, to 21-years jail for raping an 18-year old female admission seeker. Ruling on the case, Justice Josephine Oyefeso described ...

Two members of the House of Representatives, Francis Oghene Waive (Ughelli South/Udu federal constituency) and Ossai Nicholas Ossai (Ndokwa East/Ndokwa West/Ukwuani federal constituency) have disagreed over the establishment of two polytechnics in their constituencies. This followed after a Bill for ...

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has delisted no fewer than 37 secondary schools from conducting the Senior Secondary Schools Certificate Examination (SSCE) in Benue State over examination malpractices. Benue State Commissioner for Education, Professor Dennis Ityavyar, who dropped disclosed ...

Former Vice Chancellor of Samuel Adegboyega University (SAU) Ogwa, Edo State, Prof. Bernard Aigbokhan, yesterday canvassed stiffer penalties, including prosecutions and dismissals, for lecturers indicted over sex for grades. Aigbokhan said that the measure is to check the unwholesome practice ...

A professor of Climatology, Department of Geography, University of Lagos, Emmanuel Oladipo, has cautioned that if proper measures are not taken to harness the effects of climate change, the Niger Delta region could be submerged in flood. Oladipo, who is ...