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PTA Rejects Students’ Transfer To Katsina
The Parents Teachers Association, Federal Government Science and Technical College, Michika in Adamawa, says its members will not allow their children’s transfer to a similar school in Katsina State. The News Agency of Nigeria recalls that following the Feb. 20…
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UNILORIN’s ASUU Worthy Example
Throughout the six months when the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) were on strike last year, the University of Ilorin chapter was not. Now, the chapter has added a new feat by completing the first phase of a N7.28…
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Boko Haram: 250 Female Students of FGGC Relocated
Over 250 female students of the Federal Government Girls College (FGGC), Monguno in Borno State have been relocated to the Federal Government College (FGC), Maiduguri. The transfers followed recent attacks on public schools by the Boko Haram sect, which claimed the…
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Oyo State Technical University To Take Off In September
The Oyo State Technical University will take off at its Ajoda campus by September 2014. Governor Abiola Ajimobi, who stated this in Ibadan, said students of the university would have the opportunity of studying in Nigeria and in the United…
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FG Spent N110 Billion on Tertiary Education in 3 Years – Wike
The Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, said on Tuesday that the Federal Government spent N110 billion through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) between 2011 and 2013. Wike made the announcement in Enugu at a Stakeholders’ Town Hall…
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World Bank Designates 10 Nigerian Universities as African Centre of Excellence
The World Bank has designated 10 Nigerian Universities as African Centres of Excellence for outstanding research programmes in key areas while each of the centres is to receive a total grant of N12.8billion to run approved research projects between 2014…
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Colleges of Education Lecturers (COEASU) Strike: No End In Sight
The Colleges of Education Lecturers (COEASU) Strike news update is that there is no end in sight. The Union recently said the strike will continue until FG meets all its demands. Read the full details of the latest COEASU Strike…
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ASUU Set For Fresh Fight With FG Over New Payroll System
There is palpable tension in Nigerian universities, with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, boycotting the ongoing Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, seminar in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Lecturers are bent on downing tools again, barely a…
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NLC Faults FG’s Closure Of Unity Colleges In N/East
The Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) has faulted the Federal Government’s decision to shut down five Federal Government Colleges in Adamawa, Borno and Yobe states as a result of the recent massacre of secondary school students in Buni Yadi, Yobe state, by suspected Boko…
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NECO To Accommodate Students of Closed Unity Schools
The National Examinations Council on Thursday said the closure of the five Unity Colleges in the North-East would not affect the participation of its candidates in NECO – conducted examinations. The NECO Registrar, Prof. Promise Okpala, told the News Agency…
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Academic Staff of Alvan Ikoku College of Education Decries FG’s Neglect
Academic staff of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri, AIFCEO, have described as “most unfortunate” the Federal Government’s alleged refusal to address the problems hindering effective teaching and learning in the system. Branch Chairman of College of Education Academic…
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Barbing, Hairdressing, Now Compulsory In WAEC, NECO
Candidates sitting for the West African Examination Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) will henceforth be taking entrepreneurship skills as compulsory subjects. According to the President, International Bureau of Education (IBE) and Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Educational…
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