LAGOS MARCH 12TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) have declared a 7-day warning strike over federal government’s delay to pay their salaries. The decision to embark on a warning strike was part of the resolution of the joint action committee of the two unions, after a…
LAGOS AUGUST 17TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government ended in a deadlock on Tuesday, The PUNCH has learnt. Sources familiar with the matter told one of our correspondents that the Federal Government’s team met with the representatives of ASUU at the headquarters of the National Universities Commission….
LAGOS OCTOBER 6TH (NEWSRANGERS)-The Federal Government has approved the sum of N75,000 as stipend per semester for students undergoing degree programmes in Education in public universities in Nigeria. Also, the Nigeria Certificate in Education students will get N50,000 as stipend per semester as part of the deliberate effort of the government to attract the best…
LAGOS DECEMBER 3RD (NEWSRANGERS)-In its efforts to sanitise Nigerian tertiary institutions across the country, the executive secretary of the National University Commission (NUC), Prof Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, said about 100 fake professors have been uncovered by the commission. Sun reports that Prof Rasheed said that about 100 fake professors’ details were posted on the NUC…
LAGOS SEPTEMBER 22ND (NEWSRANGERS)-Vice-Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Mr. Peter Obi, has advised Nigerian universities to look inwards for the development of their various schools. He gave the advice during his visit to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka and Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka. Sharing managerial experiences with e some principal officers of…