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Academic Staff Union of Universities met across the country on Thursday to consider the offer by the Federal Government. The ASUU President, Dr. Nasir Faggae after a meeting with President Goodluck Jonathan which ended in the early hours of Tuesday had told reporters that the union would take back an undisclosed message to their members. […]

  Nigeria’s leading premium pay TV service provider, MultiChoice has unveiled winners of this year’s poster and essay categories in the DStv Eutelsat Star Awards platform. At the presentation on Thursday, Miss Taiwo Kayode from African Church Model College, Ifako Lagos, was presented as winner in the essay category, while Adriel Yakubu from Adonai Vine

  A 4-year-old boy was re-elected mayor of the community of Dorset in the northern U.S. state of Minnesota. Residents of the community of 25 people confirmed Robert “Bobby” Tufts as their mayor on Sunday in a vote at a local festival, a worker at a general store said. The post is symbolic because Dorset

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) Plans may be underway by some Nigerian students to jolt the nation into consciousness through a mass protest aimed at highlighting the woes bedevilling public education in the country. This mass action billed for Tuesday is being organised by the Joint Action Front (JAF). Under their arrangement, protesting students in the

  The Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has said that enterprise education will reduce graduate unemployment and enhance the nation’s search for economic development. He spoke at the first Enterprise Day organised by the Lagos State Technical and Vocational Education Board in Lagos, where stakeholders in the education sector discussed issues that border on

  Supporters of two Nigerian students who have been evading authorities by hiding in Regina churches were planning a national day of action Monday. Victoria Ordu and Ihouma Amadi were ordered deported last year after they violated their student visas by working for two weeks at a Wal-Mart. The two had been studying at the

  (By Mairo Danlami) It was drama, Tuesday, at the venue of the verification of certificates of primary school teachers in Edo State, as a teacher in Asologun Primary School, Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of the state, Mrs. Augusta Odemwinge could not read a sworn affidavit she purportedly tendered as part of her credentials.

  (By Dotun Onimole) Hopes of quick resolution of the present face-off between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities were dashed on Tuesday as the Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, said the government has no resources to meet the union demands. Foreclosing possible truce to the five-week old industrial action

  (By Mairo Danlami) The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) is gearing for another industrial action, which would commence after next week, and would be indefinite. The union made the appropriate statement on August 13, 2013, Tuesday during the mass protest to ‘save public education’ in Lagos. “The suspension of the strike will expire

  (By Folksy) The House of Representatives is to revisit a bill seeking to ban government officials from sending their children to educational institutions outside the country. The move is to halt the alleged lukewarm attitude of government officials to public schools, “which has led to the deteriorating state of education in Nigeria.” Chairman, House