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Teachers To Enjoy New Salary Structure from January 2022 –FG

30Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Finance, News, Nigeria

Teachers To Enjoy New Salary Structure from January 2022 –FG

The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, says teachers will begin to enjoy the new salary structure promised by President Muhammadu Buhari, from January 2022. Nwajiuba disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at a symposium organised by the Ministry of Education. The symposium was part of activities to mark the forthcoming 2021 World Teachers Day with the theme ‘Teachers at the heart of education recovery.’ The minister, who was represented by the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Sonny Echono, noted that work was being concluded on the enhanced salary structure. He further disclosed work was also being concluded on other incentives promised by the President during the 2020 World Teachers’ Day. He stressed that the other incentives ranged from allowances, housing,...

Sit-at-home: FG Comments on Fate of South-East Students Who Missed WASSCE

20Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Sit-at-home: FG Comments on Fate of South-East Students Who Missed WASSCE

The Ministry of Education has clarified the fate of candidates who missed their exams during the 2021 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) due to the sit-at-home directive issued by members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, noting that they will be given another chance to write the examination. The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr Sonny Echono made this announcement on Monday, while monitoring some examination centres in Abuja. Echono frowned at the September 13 disruption of examination centres in the South East, particularly in Imo State. He, however, expressed satisfaction with the conduct of the examination across the country which was written by over 1.57 million candidates. Read Also: Ngige Begs Resident Doctors To Reconsider Their Po...

10 Bethel Baptist Students Freed, 21 Still In Bandits’ Captive

19Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Security

10 Bethel Baptist Students Freed, 21 Still In Bandits’ Captive

Bandits released ten students of Bethel Baptist School in Kaduna on Saturday with 21 others still being held captive. The Vice President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (19 Northern States and Abuja) and chairman of CAN in Kaduna State, Rev. John Joseph Hayab, confirmed this to Punch on Saturday evening. He said, “10 students were released this (Saturday) evening and have reunited with their parents. We are now hoping that the remaining 21 who are still with the bandits will be released.” Source: SaharaReporters

UNIBEN Students Told To Resume As University Cancels ₦20,000 Registration Fee

18Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Youths

UNIBEN Students Told To Resume As University Cancels ₦20,000 Registration Fee

The Senate of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, has approved the removal of N20,000 late registration fee. Recall that the registration fee led to a two-day mass protest by the students which resulted in the shutting down of the institution. The Registrar of the university, Ademola Bobola, confirming the removal in a statement said the Senate, at a virtual meeting, ratified the earlier verbal pronouncement by the Vice-Chancellor, Lilian Salami. The Senate also approved that money already paid by defaulting students be refunded as they ordered all students to resume lectures on Monday, September 20th. Part of the statement reads: “Consequently, lectures are to resume on Monday, September 20, to enable students who obeyed the directive on school closure and traveled to return. ...

Strike: Uncertainty As FG Asks For Patience, ASUU Kicks

17Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Uncategorized

Strike: Uncertainty As FG Asks For Patience, ASUU Kicks

The Federal Government has asked the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to halt its plan to embark on industrial action as the government is working on implementing its agreement with the union. The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, stated this in an interview with Punch. This was as ASUU President accused the Federal Government of constantly daring the union. Reports on Wednesday said that no fewer than three zones of ASUU had asked Nigerians to hold the Federal Government responsible should the university lecturers embark on another strike. The union accused the government of not implementing the agreement it signed with lecturers in December 2020. However, ASUU for some weeks now had been urging the government to fulfil all the agreements con...

UNIBEN Shutdown After Students’ Protest Over Increased Fees

15Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Youths

UNIBEN Shutdown After Students’ Protest Over Increased Fees

The management of the University of Benin has announced the immediate shutdown of the University following a protest by students. The closure was announced by the Vice-chancellor, Lilian Salami after students protested on Tuesday against the N20,000 hike in their tuition. The students, who alleged that the institution’s spokesman told them to go into prostitution to pay their fees, gathered at the school main gate on Tuesday, carrying placards with different inscriptions, such as 'Madam VC wants to milk us dry', 'Salami wants us to do cash out', 'UNIBEN VC Salami is after my sanity as a student, and many more. UNIBEN had earlier announced that students who did not pay school fees within the stipulated time would have to pay extra charges and might have their studentship withdrawn....

Insurgency: FG Commences Rebuilding Of Schools In Yobe

11Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Insurgency: FG Commences Rebuilding Of Schools In Yobe

The Federal Government through the North East Development Commission (NEDC) has commenced the building of more schools in Yobe and other parts of the North-east. NEDC is a department of the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development. The Yobe government had provided land for the building of new primary and secondary schools in Potsdam, Buni Yadi (Gujba) and Gahsua (Bade) Local Government Areas. The commission’s Managing Director, Mohammed Alkali, who made the disclosure on Saturday in Gasua, said that the initiative was meant to address the current problem of insufficient classrooms. According to him, the problem in primary and secondary schools in the North-east region is due to activities of insurgents. Mr Akali said that insur...

ASUU Calls On NASS To Pass The Bill To Amend NUC Act

11Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

ASUU Calls On NASS To Pass The Bill To Amend NUC Act

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU ) has called on the National Assembly to pass the Bill to amend the National Universities Commission Act to address the proliferation of state universities. The coordinator of the Kano Zone of the Union , Prof . Abdulkadir Muhammad made the call at a press conference held at Bayero University Kano, on Friday. Muhammad, who called for the passage of the bill, also called on the visitors of the Universities to live up to their responsibilities. “We are calling on the national assembly to , as a matter of urgency , consider and pass the Bill. Due to bad governance and underfunding, our state-owned universities may soon collapse beyond redemption. “Visitors of state universities had turned establishment of state universities into proje...

JAMB Replies El-Rufai, Says Differential Cut-off Marks Not Awarded

8Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

JAMB Replies El-Rufai, Says Differential Cut-off Marks Not Awarded

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has debunked claims that it awards preferential cut-off marks to students who sit the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination from the northern part of the country. The board also said the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, was wrong in saying that UTME candidates of northern extraction enjoyed special privileges or lower cut-off marks not benefited by candidates in other parts of the country. JAMB’s Head of Information and Media, Fabian Benjamin, said this in an exclusive interview with The PUNCH on Tuesday in reaction to the governor’s comment on Monday. El-Rufai, on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily breakfast programme on Monday, said students from the North should not be awarded lower cut-off marks, but should be mad...

Lagos Government Announces School Resumption Dates

7Sep

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Lagos Government Announces School Resumption Dates

Lagos State Government has announced the resumption of schools for the year 2021/2022 academic session. Public and private schools are to resume on September 13; model colleges and upgraded schools will resume in batches from September 19. Commissioner for Education, Folasade Adefisayo in a statement said for model and upgraded, SS2 students seeking placement into SS3 will resume September 19. See Also: Insurgency: FG Commences Rebuilding Of Schools In Yobe Revision classes will run from September 20 to 26, while promotion examination to SS3 will take place from September 27 to October 8. Newly admitted JS1 students into model colleges and upgraded schools are to resume on October 2 for a one week orientation programme. Other classes, JS 2, JS3, SS1, and the newly transit...