The management of University of Benin (UNIBEN) says the 2017 Post- UTME admission screening earlier scheduled for Sept 14 to 25 will now hold from Sept. 28 to Oct. 10, 2017. The information is in a statement by Mrs Otasowie Oshodin, the Registrar of the institution, made available in Benin on Friday. According To him, […]
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The non academic staff of Nigerian universities have provided reasons for suspending their strike for one month. The staff, members of three unions, NASU, SSANU, and NAAT, announced the suspension of the 11 days old strike on Thursday. Sam Ugwoke, the national president of the Joint Action Committee of three unions, announced the suspension at […]
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There seem to be hope for Nigerian universities as the non-teaching staff (NASU, SSANU, NAAT) have had a successful meeting with representatives of the federal government and have accepted a proposal. However, the strike does not end immediately, as they have asked to be given some time to end it. Samson Ugwoke, the National President […]
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The president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Biodun Ogunyemi, has announced a conditional suspension of its nationwide strike and has directed lecturers to go back to work on Tuesday (today). The suspension of the strike which started on August 13, was announced at the end of a meeting with top government officials […]
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The Governing Council of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, has fixed the resumption of activities at the university for Friday, September 15, 2017 . The registrar of the university, Jacob Agboola, said this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Osogbo on Thursday by the Public Relations Officer of the […]
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The National Examinations Council (NECO), today (Thursday) released the June/July 2017 Senior Secondary Schools Examination results. The Council says out of the 1,051,472 who sat for the examinations, only 745,053 of the candidates got at least five credits including Mathematics and English Language. Prof. Charles Uwakwe, NECO Registrar, announced the results at the council headquarters […]
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The National Executive Council of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will meet on Thursday in Abuja to decide if the on-going strike action will be called off or continued. A source in the union, who pleaded anonymity, disclosed this to Premium Times, on Wednesday. “NEC will hold a decisive meeting tomorrow and will […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the federal government have reached an agreement aimed at bringing the ongoing strike to an end. The agreement comes after 12 hours, 30 minutes of a closed door meeting between ASUU and a government delegation led by Adamu Adamu, minister of education. The leadership of ASUU, however, […]
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The joint action committee of Non-Teaching Staff of Universities, made up of SSANU, NASU, NAAT has directed its members to proceed on a nationwide strike on September 11. The directive is coming a month after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on a strike, shutting down some universities. The committee comprises the National […]
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has assigned Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo to henceforth chair the concluding part of the ongoing negotiation between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). ASUU, an umbrella association of lecturers in the nation’s universities, is demanding the full implementation of the 2009 agreements reached with the federal […]
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