Education

THE Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), after 10 rounds of meetings, finally reached an agreement yesterday on contending issues, which led to the two months’ industrial action. As a result of the agreement, which was signed between the union leaders and government officials, the ASUU leadership announced the suspension of […]

  The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its nationwide industrial action. National President of the union, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, announced this on Thursday during a press briefing at the Nigeria Labour Congress complex in Abuja. The striking lecturers took the decision after a meeting with representatives of the Federal […]

For allegedly raping a 23-year-old lady, two Babcock University dropouts, Don-Chima George and Olusegun Rasak, are now at the Kirikiri Prisons on the orders of an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Olufunke Sule-Amzat, remanded George,25, and ou Rasak, 28,  pending the advice from the state Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP). Sule-Amzat adjourned the case until […]

UNIVERSITY of Lagos (UNILAG) Pro-Chancellor Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN) has said Nigeria needs over N2.5 trillion yearly to provide quality education at all levels. Babalakin spoke at the weekend at a fund-raising dinner organised by the Alumni of the College of Medicine, UNILAG. He was the chairman of the occasion. The lawyer and businessman explained […]

For the ninth time in about three months, the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), again, on Friday, failed to reach a compromise on ending the three months old strike by the university lecturers. The lecturers who are demanding the implementation of the agreement entered into by the government with the […]