The leaders of the major unions of university staff have given different reasons for the current crisis rocking the institutions. The crisis stemmed from the sharing formula employed in allocating the funds between members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Joint Action Committee, JAC, comprising the…

The non-academic staff unions of Nigerian universities have resumed their suspended strike. The unions, members of NAAT, NASU, and SSANU, announced the resumption of the strike in a joint statement on Thursday night. They said the strike will resume on Monday, December 3. The statement was signed by the national…

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, has suspended its nationwide strike, 15 days after the industrial action began. This was confirmed by the chairman of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic chapter of the union, Kola Abiola, on Wednesday night. Mr. Abiola said the union suspended the strike based on certain…

A Nigerian firm has developed a mobile application that enables students, teachers, and parents access past questions of school and professional examinations, curricula and other key information in the education sector. Bilyak Consulting Firm launched the application 'mAcademy' www.mylearningacademy.com in Abuja on Wednesday. A representative of the firm, Oladayo Pelumi,…

To abolish torture in the Nigerian society, security outfits, groups and individuals need to adopt negotiations, persuasion and dialogue to find solutions to problems, Amnesty International Nigeria said on Tuesday. The country director of the civic group, Osai Ojigho, said this during a symposium and moot court competition among Nigerian Universities…

The Federal Capital Territory has promoted about 3,000 of its officials. According to a statement Tuesday evening by the chief press secretary to the Minister of FCT Administration, Cosmas Uzodinma, the development was under the 2016 promotion and confirmation exercises of the FCTA. "As a result, 46 acting directors have…

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has said it will not post corps members to any area where there is security breach. The corps said this in a press statement Tuesday afternoon. According to the statement, NYSC Director-General, Sulaiman Kazaure, said the security of corps members is a priority to…

A former Vice President of Nigeria, Atiku Abubakar, has delivered his first speech since quitting the country’s ruling party, APC. PREMIUM TIMES reported how Mr. Abubakar on Friday announced via a public letter that he was leaving the party. A day later, the Waziri Adamawa delivered a speech at the…

The Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, has expressed confidence that the outcome of results in the ongoing assessment of basic education across the nation will be credible. The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Hamid Bobboyi, gave the assurance during the monitoring of the assessment tests in selected schools in Abuja.…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities in Nigeria, ASUU, has warned against distorting the mandate of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund as an intervention agency. The president of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, gave the warning in Abuja on Thursday at the launch of a publication, TETFUND Monthly Digest. Mr. Ogunyemi said…

Nigeria's Minister of Education has expressed concern over the country's high rate of illiteracy, saying some 60 million Nigerians, or 30 percent of the population, cannot read or write. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said this on Thursday at the opening of the 2017 Nigeria's Annual Education Conference held…

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, may call off its 10-day old strike next week, an official has said.   An official of the union, Kola Abiola, who is also the ASUP chairman of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic chapter in Abeokuta, told PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday that the decision will be taken in…

Only 26 per cent of the private candidates who wrote the 2017 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, SSCE, had five credits including Maths and English, representing a sharp drop in the results recorded in 2016. The percentage of candidates in this category in 2015 and 2016 examinations were 28.59 per cent…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has suspended the sale of the 2018 application forms earlier scheduled to commence on Wednesday, November 22. The spokesperson of the board, Fabian Benjamin, said this in a press statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES Tuesday evening. He noted that the postponement was due…

The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has released the results of the 2017 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination for private students. The council announced the release on Twitter on Tuesday, saying the results were released in Katsina by the head of national office, Olu Adenipekun. The council also announced that it…

The National Publicity Secretary, All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, Ifeatu Obi-Okoye, has attributed the flawless conduct of the November 18 governorship election in Anambra to President Muhammadu Buhari’s quest to build enduring institutions. Mr. Obi-Okoye made the assertion in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Tuesday…

Worried by the perceived low quality of basic education in the country, the Nigerian government said it has commenced a national assessment of teaching and learning quality in that sub-sector. The assessment will hold between November 22 and 24. The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Hamid…

More than half of the 37 parties that took part in Saturday's governorship election scored less than 100 votes, an analysis of the results show. According to the Returning Officer of the election, Zana Akpagu, a total of 2,064,134 residents registered as eligible voters for the election with the Independent…

The Director General of the Willie Obiano campaign organisation, Victor Umeh, has thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for his party's victory at the polls on Saturday. Mr. Obiano, a former national chairman of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, won the Anambra governorship election with about 55 per cent of total votes…

The logistics process was fair but there were recorded glitches in the accreditation of voters, a youth-based organisation has found in its preliminary analysis of the ongoing gubernatorial election in Anambra State. The Youth Initiative for Advocacy and Advancement, YIAGA, said the voting materials in most parts of the state…

Nollywood actor and Democratic People’s Congress, DPC, governorship candidate for the Anambra election, Yul Edochie, has denied endorsing Willie Obiano, the incumbent governor of the state. Mr. Edochie said on Twitter he was still in the race after reports surfaced Saturday afternoon claiming he had stepped down for Mr. Obiano.…

Agents of different political parties on Saturday openly distributed food and cash gifts at polling booths to sway the support of voters at the ongoing Anambra gubernatorial election, PREMIUM TIMES can report. Reporters and monitors for this newspaper and its partner, the Centre for Democracy and Development, CDD, witnessed agents…

There was a fire outbreak in the early hours of Friday at the Cameroon National Assembly building in Yaounde. According to a report on BBC news Friday, there were no reports of casualties and the cause of the blaze was not immediately clear. In this week's sessions, the national assembly…

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has confirmed November 21 for the opening of orientation camps for prospective Batch B, Stream 1, corps members nationwide. This was announced on the Twitter handle of NYSC on Friday. Adenike Adeyemi, NYSC spokesperson, also confirmed the date to PREMIUM TIMES. NYSC says highlights…

The sum of N28.8 million has been disbursed to provide computer sets that would allow prison candidates sit for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, and Direct Entry, DE, the registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Ishaq Oloyede has said. Mr. Oloyede said the board had…