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Latest: ASUP Suspends Strike, Direct Its Members to Resume Monday  The two-week warning strike embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has been suspended. The union made disclosed this yesterday and directed its members to resume academic activities next month.  This was contained in a statement issued on Saturday by the National Publicity Secretary of the …

UNIJOS SUG has released a disclaimer notice on the academic calendar circulating on social media. The notice is as follows Please be informed that the Calendar Making rounds is NOT an official calendar of the School and hence should be disregarded. When the school management has decided on a Calendar, it’ll be properly Communicated to …

The Federal Government has declared December 25th, 28th and January 1st 2020 as public holidays, to commemorate Christmas, Boxing Day and New Year celebrations, respectively. This was disclosed by the Ministry of Interior on behalf of the Federal Government, in a statement today. In the statement, the minister felicitated with Christians and all Nigerians both …

Coal City University is currently accepting applications from suitably qualified candidates into its 2020 scholarship programme. See details on how to apply below. Coal City University offers a number of scholarships each year for students who have demonstrated academic excellence or showed potential to do so during their time at Coal City University, Enugu, Enugu …

Latest: 300 BUK Indigent Students to Get Scholarship Next Academic  Bayero University, Kano is set to provide scholarship to 300 less privileged students in the forthcoming 2019/2020 academic session. The Vice Chancellor, Professor Muhammad Yahuza Bello disclosed this while receiving delegates of the BUK Class ’92 alumni on Friday, 27th December, 2019 at the Senate …

Latest: NUC Discloses Names of 3 Illegal Universities Operating in Nigeria The National Universities Commission (NUC) has come hard on three illegal universities operating in Nigeria. NUC has given the following institutions – Nobel International Business School (NIBS) in Lagos, Copperstone University, UPTA, USA in Bayelsa and Pathfinder University, Jos (College of Theology and Development …

Students of Nasarawa State University, Keffi has been called upon to support the present administration’s reform efforts, especially in its fight against unethical behaviours by some lecturers, who sexually harass students and engage in sale of grades. The Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Suleiman Bala Mohammed, made the call when he received members of the National …

The 13th Governing Council of Bayero University, Kano at its 6th regular meeting held on Thursday, 7th March, 2019   approved the promotion of 36 new Professors and 40 others as Associate Professors, respectively.   A statement signed by the University Registrar and Secretary to the Council, Hajiya Fatima Binta Mohammed, said all appointments took effect …

The management of Bayero University, Kano (BUK) has awarded a scholarship of N50,000 each to one hundred and eighty (180) best students, who distinguished themselves and performed well at the  2017/2018 academic session. This is to enable the students to use the money to pay for the registration fees of the current academic session.   …

According to media reports, despite directive from the national leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) that all its members should embark on an indefinite strike last Monday, the Obadfemi Awolowo University (OAU) chapter of the union is yet to comply with that directive and may never be part of it.

The Federal Government has approved the reduction of the fees for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the National Examination Council (NECO) and the Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE).

Reports have it that the Senate has adopted the report of its committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund and has passed the bill for the establishment of 10 tertiary institution; five polytechnics, two universities, two colleges of education and one institute of technology. The institutions are Federal Polytechnic, Kabo, Kano State; ‎Federal Polytechnic, Daura, Katsina …