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Polytechnic Lecturers begin Indefinite Strike

6Apr

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Press Statement

Polytechnic Lecturers begin Indefinite Strike

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has commenced an indefinite strike with effect from today. The union said this followed the failure of the government to address the sorry state of polytechnics and monotechnics and the expiration of the ultimatum issued since March 2020. The action is coming less than a week after resident doctors embarked on a nationwide strike over non-payment of allowances and other issues. Announcing this at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, the ASUP President, Anderson Ezeibe, said academic activities had been shut shown in all polytechnics and like institutions nationwide with effect from 12am, April 6. According to him, the union’s demands were communicated to the ministries of education, labour and others as well as to state governors but ...

UNIBEN dissolves SUG, Suspends Union Leaders

1Apr

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, Nigeria, Youths

UNIBEN dissolves SUG, Suspends Union Leaders

The authorities of University of Benin, on Wednesday, announced the suspension of members of the three arms of Students’ Union Government in the institution. The institution’s Public Relations Officer (PRO), Dr Benedicta Ehanire, in a statement issued in Benin, said that a caretaker committee would be put in place to manage the affairs of the union. Ehanire said that the institution’s Senate took the decision to forestall breakdown of law and order, following the planned protest by the students’ union body against the shift in the school’s academic calendar. “The union had persistently engaged in subversive activities, including incitement of other students to disobey lawful instructions by the school authorities. “This is in spite of concerted efforts by management, led by the...

Why We Introduced NIN for UTME Registration – JAMB Registrar

27Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Information Technology, News, Nigeria

Why We Introduced NIN for UTME Registration – JAMB Registrar

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Friday said security reasons and checkmating examination malpractice informed its decision to introduce the use of the National Identity Number, NIN, for the registration of the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The examination body noted that the directive was issued by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu. This was disclosed by the Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, during a virtual meeting with owners of computer-based test centres, service providers and other stakeholders to commence the 2021 UTME registration. Oloyede asked candidates to make provide only their NIN at the registration centres and not their names. He said, "We don't even require the name of the candidate; we wan...

26Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Adamawa Polytechnic Shut Indefinitely

The management of Adamawa State Polytechnic, Yola has announced the indefinite closure of the institution after final-year students went berserk. The irate students destroyed the institution’s 500-seater lecture theatre, burnt the Students’ Union Government building and also destroyed the Students’ Union’s president’s vehicle. According to the News Agency of Nigeria, no life was lost during the incident but the police have arrested some of the students. Announcing the closure, the Rector of the institution, Ibrahim Umar, said the students were protesting against the cancellation of “signing out’’ ceremony for the year. He explained that at the end of their final year, students celebrate “signing out’’, but the activity was cancelled this year by the Students Affairs Division fo...

Abduction: Negotiate with Bandits Now, Parents Beg El-Rufai

25Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Abduction: Negotiate with Bandits Now, Parents Beg El-Rufai

Following the failure of government and security agencies to secure the release of the 39 abducted students of the Federal College of Forestry Mechanisation in the Mando Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State, their parents have appealed to the Governor Nasir El-Rufai to bargain with the bandits to safely secure their release. The parents expressed sadness that their wards have remained in captivity over two weeks after their abduction by gunmen who raided their hostels. Recall that the gunmen shortly after the abduction of 23 female and 16 male students on March 12 demanded N500 million ransom in a viral video. Despite the rescue of 180 abductees by security forces, 39 students are still held captive by the kidnappers. A member of staff of the school and a representative ...

Dapchi Schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu Births Second Child as B’Haram Captive – Report

23Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Boko Haram, Education, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Terrorism

Dapchi Schoolgirl, Leah Sharibu Births Second Child as B’Haram Captive – Report

A United States-based group, US-Nigeria Law Group, has bemoaned the plight of abandoned Dapchi brave Christian, Leah Sharibu, who is held captive by Boko Haram insurgents for three years and five weeks, reporting she has given birth to a second child in captivity. Leah who was abducted in Dapchi, Yobe State alongside other schoolgirls, was coerced to accept Islam before being given in marriage to a Boko Haram Supremo after she declined to renounce her Christian faith. She was abducted alongside other 109 girls aged between 11 and 19 years, from Government Girls Science and Technical Colege, Dapchi, on February 19, 2018. According to the leader of the US-Nigeria Law Group, Emmanuel Ogebe, in a statement, despite an offer by an American pastor last month to surrender himself in exch...

17Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Security

Gunmen Release Abducted OOU Students

The female students of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, who were kidnapped in front of their hostel in Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State, have been released by the gunmen. The students were freed on Tuesday night but it could not be ascertained if any ransom was paid to secure their release. The abductees among whom are Adeyemo Precious and Oyefule Abiola, studying Forestry and Wildlife Management and Agricultural Economics at the Ayetoro Campus of OOU, were abducted on Sunday night. The aftermath of their abduction had prompted the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), to threaten the closure of all tertiary institutions in the state. It prompted the state Governor, Dapo Abiodun to order security operatives to rescue the students unhurt. Their rel...

16Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Security

FG Can’t Secure All Schools – Minister

The Federal Government has asked Nigerians to be vigilant to mitigate against attacks on schools and students’ abduction. This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, in an interview with Punch on Monday, noting that the government cannot secure all schools across the country. Nwajiuba said the government has instructed schools to report any security threat to the nearest security agency. "Eternal vigilance is the price for security. Every nation is always concerned about the consciousness of its people. The Federal Government cannot secure every house. Everybody needs to be vigilant. We have passed this message to all our schools so that anywhere they are, if there is any threat, they know the nearest security agency to contact," he said while ...

Imo Directors to take Exam before Promotion to Perm Sec Position – Uzodimma

16Mar

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Imo Directors to take Exam before Promotion to Perm Sec Position – Uzodimma

Directors in the Imo State civil service will now take promotion examinations before being promoted to permanent secretaries. Governor Hope Uzodimma, who announced this on Monday during the commemoration of his one year in office in Owerri, said appointing directors as acting permanent secretaries in the state ministries, departments and agencies was a violation of the civil service rule and would therefore no longer be tolerated by his administration. Uzodimma decried the rot going on in the state civil service allegedly being perpetrated by some corrupt civil servants, which had resulted in the ‘ghost’ workers syndrome, collection of double salaries, and bloated wage bill for pensioners in the state. He challenged pensioners still crying over non-payment of their monthly stipend...

Auchi Polytechnic Bans Students From Driving Private Cars

14Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Auchi Polytechnic Bans Students From Driving Private Cars

The management of the Federal Polytechnic, Auchi, Edo State, has banned students from driving private cars on campus. This was contained in a circular signed by its Registrar. According to the circular stated, the measure followed “intelligence reports” received by the institution’s management. It read, “Following intelligence reports received by management, it has become expedient to put the following measures in place with effect from Wednesday, 10th March, 2021.” “Students are not to bring in their vehicles in the campus; Security check will be carried out by both staff of the security unit and the police at the various entrance point of the Polytechnic.” The circular urged all students to always have their identity cards with them while on the school’s campus....