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  (By NAN) The Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities has recommended necessary policy interventions to address the challenges of universities and other higher institutions in the country. Prof. Michael Faborode, Secretary-General of the committee, said that the policy was necessary due to the challenges of weak governance structure and process in the Nigerian higher […]

  (By Dotun Onimole) After weeks in the hospital with a tumour big as the size of a grapefruit in his stomach, 9-year-old Cole Johanson’s parents looked down at him in that Oregon hospital bed and they weren’t sure whether their son would live or die. There was so much pain, and the boy was

  (By Mairo Danlami) Mr  Agwu Amogu, President of Students for Advancement of Global Entrepreneurship (SAGE), on Wednesday said that Nigeria had been chosen to host the 2013 world students’ global entrepreneurship competition in Abuja. Amogu in Abuja said that the competition which was the 11th in the series was tagged “The SAGE World Cup’’.

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) The Federal Government will meet the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, today on the ongoing strike embarked on by university lecturers over the non- implementation of the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement, which has been on for weeks. The meeting comes following the denial of Minister of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka

  (By Mairo Danlami) In a call with student leaders and reporters on Tuesday, former President Bill Clinton said that student debt and illegal prescription drug use are among the problems facing America’s college students, Inside Higher Education reported. Clinton’s call was placed ahead of the sixth annual Clinton Global Initiative University meeting, which will

  (By Dotun Onimole) Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, said his administration has employed 1200 new teachers to boost teaching and learning in the state public secondary schools. Fashola disclosed this as he presented cheques worth N256 million to 128 public secondary schools in the state, as reward for academic excellence. The Governor

 A senior Saudi cleric said the Prophet Mohammed’s marriage to a nine-year-old girl some 14 centuries ago cannot be used to justify child marriages today, a Saudi newspaper reported Thursday. The comments by Sheikh Abdullah al-Manie, a member of the Council of Senior Ulema (scholars), followed the marriage of a 11-year-old girl to a man

 Tens of thousands of teachers in India’s Bihar state have boycotted a free school lunch scheme to protest against the arrest of the head teacher of a school where 23 children died after eating a meal last week. A teachers’ spokesman said 90% of the 300,000 employed at state-run primary schools took part in the

  (By Mairo Danlami) Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has described as speculative reports that the strike embarked upon by the union over the inability of the Federal Government to implement the 2009 agreement it willingly entered into with the union would be called off this Thursday. National President of ASUU, Dr. Nasir Fagge,

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) A stampede at Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko’s residence in Gawon Nama area of Sokoto has claimed three kids and wounded several others. Sahara reporters learnt that the incident occurred on Sunday night during the distribution of clothing and food personally handled by the governor at his residence. Thousands of hungry and