Year: 2022
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ASUU is Willing To End 7-month-Old Strike – ASUU President, Osodeke
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke has said that the union is willing to end its seven-month-old strike. Mr Osodeke, however, said this could only be achieved if concrete agreements were reached with the Federal Government. Mr Osodeke gave the assurance in Abuja on Thursday at a National…
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WAEC Speaks On Withheld WASSCE Results
The West African Examinations Council has restated that all withheld results in its examinations were as a result of alleged malpractices. The Head, National Office, Mr Patrick Areghan, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday in Lagos. Areghan was speaking against the backdrop of reports in some sections of…
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Flash: Publish Akpabio’s Name as Senatorial Candidate – Court Orders INEC
A Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to accept and publish the name of Godswill Akpabio as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) for Akwa Ibom North/West senatorial district in 2023. Justice Emeka Nwite, in a judgment on Thursday, held that INEC acted illegally for refusing…
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Pro-chancellors, VCs Intervene in ASUU’s Seven-month Strike
Punch Newspaper The ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities has entered its seventh month, The PUNCH reports. The union, on February 14, 2022, embarked on a strike following what it described as the failure of the government to meet some of its demands. The union is calling on the government to improve…
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JAMB seeks financial autonomy, wants exam fee hike
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has urged the House of Representatives Committee on Finance to grant it financial autonomy by removing it from the list of Ministries, Departments and Agencies in the annual budget of the Federal Government. This is just as JAMB called for a reversal of the recent reduction of examination fee…
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Why JAMB Validity Can’t Be Extended Beyond A Year – Oloyede
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has faulted calls for extension of the validity of JAMB results beyond one year. Mr Oloyede said this at a hearing on the 2023-2025 Medium Term Expenditure Framework/Fiscal Strategy Paper, MTEF/FSP, by the the House of Representatives Committee on Finance on Wednesday in Abuja.…
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PDP Crisis: What Makinde Demands From Atiku
Oyo State Governor, Engineer ‘Seyi Makinde on Wednesday demanded that the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Iyorchia Ayu, must resign. Makinde demanded Ayu’s resignation when the South-West PDP stakeholders met with the party’s presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, in Ibadan, the state capital. The governor said Ayu must step down so that southerners will…
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ASUU Strike: FG Reacts To Blockage of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway by NANS
The Federal Government, on Wednesday, said that the protesting members of the National Association of Nigerian students, NANS, that blocked a traffic-laden section of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway are “violating” the country’s law. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, SAN, stated this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly Federal…
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Atiku Meets Makinde, Fayose, Other PDP Stalwarts in Ibadan (Video)
The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar on Wednesday met Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde; former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose and other party stalwarts in South-West. The meeting, which is to discuss the future of the party ahead of the 2023 general elections. is took place in Ibadan, Oyo…
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ASUU strike: Monarch, others stranded as protesting students block Lagos-Ibadan expressway
Vanguard News Motorists plying the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway were yesterday, stranded for hours, as protesting university students blocked the road in protest against the continued strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The students, who acted under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, blocked the road at the…