November 3, 2013

Proprietors of private schools in the South-West have expressed concern over the conflict between the Federal Government and members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the consequent strike action that has left varsity gates locked for four months. The private school proprietors appealed to both the ASUU and the Federal Government to urgently […]

  There have been indications that after today’s meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the four month strike of the lecturers may finally end. A closed-door meeting has started on Monday at 2:40 pm inside the First Lady Conference Room, Presidential Villa, Abuja. It has in attendance the President, Vice

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities has blamed former military dictator, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida for the current problems bedeviling the nation’s education sector. The union believed that the former military President presided over what it described as the dictatorship of the International Monetary Fund and Structural Adjustment Programme, whose policies were used to “kill

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  Anambra State University in Uli has been renamed after the Late Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu in celebration of his 80th posthumous birthday.  The Anambra State Governor, Peter Obi, announced the renaming in a live broadcast on the television station of the Anambra Broadcasting Service. He reiterated the commitment of his administration to restoring standards

  Etisalat Nigeria has unveiled their first set of ambassadors – rapper Panshak ‘Ice Prince’ Zamani and Olamide Adedeji have signed endorsement deals with the telecommunications company. Both deals are worth around N20m each. The rappers let the cat out of the bag as they tweeted at each other ‘The swaggg ETISALAT get bwuoy no be here!!! Ask

  A University in Uganda, the Islamic University Mbale, Uganda has requested to the Nigerian authorities for fifty-seven lecturers in various fields. The request is sequel to a bilateral agreement signed between Nigeria and the Republic of Uganda last month. In the agreement Nigeria renewed its pact to assist the East African country with skilled

A Mount Lebanon High School student took an assignment farther than a hobo on a freight train when he showed up to school dressed as a ragged, dirty homeless vagrant. He took it so far, in fact, that school officials called the cops on him and suspended him from school for two days. If the

  Police in western India said they have arrested two people for trying to sell a 13-year-old girl’s virginity. According to police, one of those arrested in the sting operation was the girl’s mother. Policemen said a team of six crime branch officials raided an apartment in Mumbra, on the outskirts of Thane, at about