ASUU Strike: 11 Undergraduates Perish In auto Crash By Timileyin Okunuga No fewer than 11 students of the University of Maiduguri, UNIMAID have been confirmed dead, following an accident that occurred November 20. The students were on their way to Damaturu in Yobe State from Maiduguri as the strike declared by the Academic Staff…
FG, ASUU Back to Negotiating Table
By Jessica Oshomagbe The federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU have gone back to the negotiating table to find means of ending the strike embarked upon by university lecturers. The federal government delegation led by the minister of labour and employment, Chris Ngige, is expected to negotiate with ASUU executives…
Parents Appeal to FG, ASUU to End Strike
By Jessica Oshomagbe As the indefinite strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU entered its second week, parents and teachers have appealed to the federal government and the union to find a lasting solution to the strike. The parents who are at the receiving end also called on the striking lecturers…
20 Students Benefit From Gani Fawehinmi Scholarship Awards
20 students have emerged successful in the 2018 Gani Fawehinmi Scholarship Awards. The awardees are: 1. Acham John from (University of Abuja) 2. Adesola Ridwan (University of Ibadan) 3. Adewale Wahab Quadri (Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria) 4. Adeyeye Oluwabunmi Victoria (University of Ibadan) 5. Akanle Samuel Ayobami (University of Ibadan) 6. Akingbade Aderayo Sukurat…
For the Love of St Patrick’s
In the last twenty-seven years since graduating from St Patrick’s Secondary School, Emene, now St Patrick’s College, Emene, I had, prior to this moment, visited the school two times. The first was in 1998 when I came to collect my certificate on my way to pursuing a university education, and the second was in 2015…
For The Love Of Motherland
In the past couple of decades, Africa has lost many of its brightest talents to Europe and America. Many of its sons and daughters who moved abroad either to study or work, ended up staying back in the foreign countries. In opting to live abroad, many of them, either deliberately or for reasons beyond…
NIJ Hosts Anti-Corruption Round Table
A round table on youth participation in the war on corruption holds at the Nigeria Institute of Journalism, NIJ, Ogba, Lagos on Wednesday November 1. The round table titled “Best Strategies In Engaging The Youth In Nigeria’s Anti-Corruption War”, is organized by Sustainable Development and Transparency Foundation, SDTF, an anti-corruption and non-profit organisation. The lead paper…
World Literacy Day: Obaseki Canvasses For Modern Teaching Method
Godwin Obaseki, the Governor of Edo State, has decried the prevalence of obsolete teaching methods in institutions of learning in Nigeria. He believes that the moribund teaching methods account for the poor quality of education and high level of illiteracy in the country. For this reason, the governor, who made the recommendations on August 8…
Nigerians Mistreat The Elderly-LASU Don
At a time when many elderly people in Nigeria continue to lament the poor welfare system in the country, Elias Wahab, a professor of Sociology and dean of faculty of Social Science, Lagos State University, LASU, has urged the government to establish a programme and policy that will ensure monthly stipends are given to Nigerians…
Education Tourism: How to Stop the Exodus
As more Nigerians flock to higher institutions abroad in search of better education, some stakeholders stress the need to curb the exodus, which drains individual and corporate pockets He did not really plan to school abroad. Rather Edet Emedong, who just completed his second year programme at the Regional Maritime University, Accra, Ghana, had always…
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