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  The end to the present strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be in sight as President Goodluck Jonathan has approved N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities. The document to this effect is expected to be made available today at the meeting of the presidential committee on implementation […]

  The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government, has once again ended in a stalemate. Governor Gabriel Suswam announced at the end of the closed-door meeting which lasted for about three hours, that N100billion will be disbursed by September 1, to tackle infrastructure deficit in the country’s universities.

  Behold the regal lion and hear its mighty … bark? A zoo in the central China city of Luohe attempted to pass off a Tibetan mastiff as a lion, state media reported. The large, aggressive breed has a trademark bushy mane that gives it a lion-like appearance, but its vocalisations are more woof than

  An Australian baseball player out for a jog in an Oklahoma neighbourhood was shot and killed by three “bored” teenagers who decided to kill someone for fun, police said. Christopher Lane, who was visiting the town of Duncan, where his girlfriend and her family live, had passed a home where the boys were staying

  The United States colleges topped the  global higher education ranking with 17 of its universities in the top 20 institutions. Some institutions swapped places in the top 20 but they were all still there except for the University of Tokyo, which slipped a place to make way for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH

  President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday directed the two Federal Government committees negotiating the requests by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to take immediate measures at ending the on-going strike. The Chairman of the Universities Needs Implementation Committee, Gov. Gabriel Suswam of Benue, made this known after a closed-door meeting of the two committees and

  A 43-year-old LASU student and one other were, Tuesday, arraigned before an Ikeja Magistrate’s court over alleged examination malpractice. The suspects are Bruno Aire Ehidiamen, 43 and David Onuche, 35. The defendants who were docked before Magistrate Eniola Fabamwo, are facing a four-count charge of conspiracy, examination malpractice, forgery and impersonation. Examination malpractice is

  A Nigerian police officer, on Tuesday, in Ikorodu area of Lagos allegedly killed a student of the Federal University of Technology, Akure – FUTA – for disobeying the Lagos transport law. The victim, Kunle, aka Ifa, was hustling with the motorbike to make some money while waiting for the Nigerian government and university lecturers

  Imagine waking up every day to a new year. That’s exactly what happens on a Earth-size fireball of a planet 700 light-years away, which orbits its star in just 8.5 hours. The newly discovered planet, named Kepler 78b, has one of the shortest orbital periods ever detected with a radius that is only about

  Commissioner of Police, Delta State, Mr. Ikechukwu Aduba, has said there was a new trend in kidnapping in the state, in which children conspire with kidnap syndicates to demand and collect ransom from their parents. Speaking to Vanguard in an interview, he said from the series of kidnap cases investigated by the police, the