NEWS FROM UNIVERSITIES

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Sunday vowed to resist any attempt by the Federal Government to impose the Integrated Personnel Payroll System (IPPIS) on the university lecturers in the country. President Muhammadu Buhari had directed all Ministries, Departments,... Read More →

President  Muhammadu Buhari has stated that government’s investment in the education sector through various interventions far exceeds budgetary allocations hence the need for vice chancellors and other heads of tertiary institutions to be prudent and accountable in the management of... Read More →

With assistance from the federal ministry of education and international donors, Nigerian universities are taking advantage of alternative energy production technology, and the unbundling of the electricity production and distribution in the country, to generate their own electrical supply from... Read More →

The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Suleiman Bogoro, has said the organisation is working on gaining the approval of its Board of Trustees to introduce independent monitoring of projects to ensure maximum transparency in its processes. Prof Bogoro,... Read More →

The Kenyatta University has revoked a PhD awarded to one of its lecturers in 2018 after he was found guilty of plagiarising thesis of a senior lecturer at Usmanu Danfodiyo University in Sokoto, Nigeria. Vice-Chancellor Prof Paul Wainaina in a... Read More →

The Vice -President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo recently commissioned a 2.8 megawatt installed capacity solar hybrid power project, under the Federal Government’s Energising Education Programme (EEP), at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, Ebonyi State The Vice-President... Read More →

Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo has inaugurated a 7.1 megawatts Solar Hybrid power plant in Bayero University Kano (BUK), to ensure sustainability in power supply. Osibanjo said that the project would benefit thousands of students and other members of the university community,... Read More →

Nigeria’s information and technology agency, NITDA has collaborated with the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), to promote emerging technologies in tertiary institutions, thereby improving the quality of education in Nigeria. Speaking at the signing of Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) recently,... Read More →

The House of Representatives has restated the need for the establishment of a Nigerian Education Bank to issue interest-free loans to students of tertiary institutions in the country. The students loan (Access to Higher Education Bill 2016), which the Speaker,... Read More →