Category: News
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Tension in ATBU as ASUU Chairman Reportedly Assaulted by Soldiers
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Jamb Announces New Deadline For Sales of DE Forms, Registration
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said its 2023 Direct Entry, DE e-PIN sales would close on Saturday, May 26, 2023. The board also said the registration of those who obtained the e-PIN ends on Tuesday, May 30, 2023. JAMB ‘s acting Director, Public Affairs,Fabian Benjamin, who released a statement Tuesday morning to…
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VC Announces Sack of 13 Lecturers Over Sexual Assault, Others
The Edo state government has sacked 13 lecturers of state-owned Ambrose Ali University (AAU), Ekpoma, over alleged offences raging from falsification of age, fraud, misconduct, extortion and sexual harassment, among others. The institution’s Vice Chancellor, Prof. Asomwan Sunny Adagbonyin, disclosed this on Monday while presenting the university disciplinary committee’s report to members of AAU Special…
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American President Announces Delegation To Tinubu’s Inauguration
President of the United States of America, Joseph Biden has announced the designation of a Presidential Delegation to attend the inauguration of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the sixteen duly elected President of Nigeria on May 29. The delegation will be led by Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of the United States Department of Housing and…
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Court Rejects Request for Live Coverage of Petitions against Tinubu
Vanguard News The Presidential Election Petition Court, PEPC, sitting in Abuja, on Monday, rejected request to allow its day-to-day proceedings on petitions seeking to nullify the outcome of the 2023 presidential election, to be televised. The Justice Haruna Tsammani-led five member panel dismissed as lacking in merit, the application which was brought before it by…
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ASUU Goes To Poll, Elects New Leaders
Punch Newspaper Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have unanimously elected Professor Emmanuel Osodeke to a second two-year term as the union national president. It was learnt that the union members also re-elected Chris Piwuna, a Consultant Psychiatrist and Associate Professor in the College of Medicine, University of Jos, as Vice President…
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Falana Faults ‘Move’ by Ngige To Pay Unizik Lecturers’ Withheld 8-month Salaries
Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Femi Falana, has faulted the move by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, to facilitate the payment of withheld salaries of some lecturers at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka. Following the eight-month nationwide industrial action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) last year, the lecturers’ salaries…
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Strike: FG to adopt ASUU pay rise template for striking doctors
Punch Newspaper Barring last-minute changes, the pay rise template designed for the Academic Staff Union of Universities will be adopted for medical doctors working under the employment of the Federal Government, The PUNCH can confirm. The decision to adopt the ASUU pay profile follows the several demands by the doctors for better pay rise, among…
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Covenant University beats UI, UNILAG, LASU in contest promoting innovation
The Cable Mary Owolabi, a student of Covenant University (CU), has won the gold medal at the 2023 edition of the competition organised by the Future Creative Leader Academy (FCLA). The initiative, which featured competitions, seminars, and workshops, is designed for students in universities and other tertiary institutions across the country. It provides a platform…
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Warning Strike: Resident Doctors, FG Reach Truce
Channels TV The resident doctors and the Federal Government have reached an agreement over the five-day warning strike embarked upon by the association. On May 17, the Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors (NARD) began a five-day warning strike to press home its demands after a 14-day ultimatum to the government lapsed. Channels Television had reported…