The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union has decried the exclusion of its members in the recent 40 per cent pay rise for federal workers. The body commended the pay rise for civil servants, whom it described as “the drivers…

Stranded Nigerians have expressed their frustration as the Nigerian Embassy in Sudan continue to delay their movement from Khartoum to Cairo in Egypt. The PUNCH reports that the Federal Government said it was making preparations to evacuate about 5,500 stranded…

The Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission Professor Abubakar Rasheed has reiterated that the recently introduced Doctor of Medicine programme was introduced for an entirely different purpose from the original medicine by fellowship programme and “therefore, submitted that one can never…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has commenced the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination nationwide, The PUNCH reports. Data obtained from the examination body revealed that close to 1.6 million candidates across over 700 centres are expected to take the…

The Ogun State Government has said retraining teachers will aid technological development in the nation. Speaking at the training of 350 teachers from public and private primary schools in Ogun State organised by the Bunmi Adedayo Foundation, the Deputy Governor…

The Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State, Dr Kamoru Kadiri has said  the institution must work in all shades of development, staff productive capacity, staff welfare, aggressive infrastructural development, and re-channeling of the academic programme and culture. Dr…

The Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ile-Oluji, Ondo State, Samson Omogbehin, has warned the new students of the institution to stay away from social vices or be expelled from the school. Omegbehin said the polytechnic had zero tolerance for all…

The National Association of Polytechnic Students has urged the President, Major General Muhammadu (retd.), to make efforts to end the dichotomy between the Higher National Diploma and Bachelor of Science holders before leaving office on May 29, 2023. NAPS deputy…

THE alarm raised by the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, that bandits, taking advantage of the transition period as the presidential and governorship batons change hands, could launch deadly attacks across the country deserves concerted action. His call came…

The Ogun State government has distanced itself from the construction of a shopping complex inside the compound of a primary school in the state. The government said it had stopped the controversial project after its attention was called to it.…

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor Wahab Egbewole, has unveiled the Alumni National Unity Convention Planning Committee to plan and organise a national unity convention by July/August this year. A statement by the institution’s Director of Corporate…

An educationist, Mrs Christy Nosa-Ihaza, has said there is need to exploit technology in teaching the 21st century generation, otherwise known as Generation Alpha, (Gen Alpha) and described them as fast trackers. Nosa-Ihaza, in an interview with the News Agency…

No fewer than 84,000 candidates sat for the rescheduled mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in 387 Computer Based Test across the country. This is as the UTME examination is scheduled to hold next week, April 25. The Registrar, Joint Admissions…

Covenant University has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with OBTranslate to undertake research and development activities in a broad range of areas. The MoU between the two parties covers machine translation, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and linguistics for OBTranslate…

The Abia State Governor, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu, has ordered an immediate reversal of the tuition fee for Abia State University, Uturu, which was hiked by over 350 per cent. He gave the order to the management of Abia State University…