Year: 2022
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Hijab: MSSN Reacts, as Lagos Govt Issues Circular on Supreme Court Judgement
The Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, MSSN, has lauded the Lagos State government for issuing a circular ordering its employees to obey the Supreme Court judgement that grants the use of hijab in schools and academic institutions. The Amir (President) of MSSN Lagos State Area Unit, Miftahudeen Thanni, in a statement on Tuesday, said though…
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Chatham House Speaks On Tinubu’s Delegation of Questions To Political Surrogates
Peoples Gazette The Chatham House on Tuesday said Bola Tinubu ambushed its chairman when he appeared for an interactive session on Monday morning. The frontline British think-tank said the ruling All Progressives Congress presidential candidate undermined its normal arrangement and did not seek prior permission to act in the manner he did. Mr Tinubu, during…
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ASUU Faction, CONUA Threatens To Sue FG
Vanguard News The Congress of University Academics, CONUA, has said it is going to sue the Federal Government for not paying its members their eight months salaries being withheld by the government. In a statement on Tuesday signed by the National Coordinator, Dr Niyi Sunmonu, the National Secretary, Dr Henri Oripeloye and the National Publicity…
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FG Increases Number of Disciplines in Varsities To 17
Punch Newspaper The Federal Government on Monday said it has increased the number of disciplines in the Nigerian University System to 17. This was made known in a breakdown of the disciplines exclusively obtained by The PUNCH in Abuja on Monday. The PUNCH had earlier reported that the government, through the National Universities Commission, in…
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Withheld Salaries: Details of ASUU NEC Meeting in Calabar Emerges
Vanguard News Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, on Monday opted to continue their nationwide protest, instead of embarking on another round of industrial action over their eight-months’ salaries being withheld by the Federal Government. The decision was arrived at after a lengthy National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Calabar, Cross River…
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Why El-Rufai, Gbajabiamila, Others Respond To Questions Posed To Me – Tinubu
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has revealed brain behind his choice of asking some members of the party to respond to questions posed to him. According to the former Lagos Governor, he adopted the delegation method “to show team-ship”. Tinubu spoke at the Chatham House lecture titled:…
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Why I Don’t Attend Live Interview – Tinubu
The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Monday said he is a marketable individual. Jagaban, as he is fondly called vowed to give loans to students in various institutions, if elected in the forthcoming 2023 election. The former Lagos state governor stated this at the Chatham House programme titled,…
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130 Bag First Class, as OAU Graduates 5,852
Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria has said 5,852 students from various fields would graduate at the 46th Convocation of the university. Out of the number, 4,114 are Bachelor degree graduates in the classified category. This was disclosed by the Vice Chancellor of the university, Prof. Simeon Bamire, during a pre-convocation press briefing held…
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FG Sets To Unveil Newly-developed Curriculum for Varsities Today
Punch Newspaper The Federal Government, through the National Universities Commission, is set to release the newly-developed curriculum for Nigerian universities on Monday (today), The PUNCH can confirm. The PUNCH reports that the NUC had in 2021 inaugurated a committee of experts drawn from various disciplines in Nigerian universities to design the new core curriculum and…
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Expect More Infrastructures in Varsities – Buhari Hints Students
President Muhammadu Buhari had reassured Nigerian students that his administration’s committed to reverse years of decay and deficit on infrastructures in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions. Buhari at Saturday’s grand finale of the 33rd combined Convocation Ceremony of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT), hinted on delivering more infrastructures in universities among interventions to boost education in…