Kano state governor, Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has proposed a N245billion appropriation bill for the 2023 fiscal year with the education sector getting the highest allocation. The governor, who tagged the budget proposal as “Budget of consolidation and prosperity 2”, said the education sector has been allocated N62billion representing 27% of […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is set to summon an emergency meeting of the National Executive Council following the decision of the Federal Government to pay the lecturers half salaries for the month of October, 2022. Though no date has been fixed yet, our correspondent gathered that the decision to […]
Kaduna State government has directed all public school principals to re-introduce the payment of school fees in government-owned senior secondary schools across the state. Recalls that the state government had in 2019, abolished the payment of fees in schools from primary to senior secondary for all students with effect from 2020 […]
The Federal University Dutse in Jigawa State has announced a cut-off mark of 150 for the 2022/2023 academic session for candidates who chose the university as first choice. This was contained in a statement issued by Abdullahi Yahaya Bello, Chief Information Officer, Federal University Dutse, on Monday. ‘’The university has also announced […]
The Federal Government has appealed to the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) to rescind its opposition to the registration of two new academic unions in the Nigerian public university system. Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, made the call in a statement signed by Mr Olajide Oshundun, Head, Press and Public […]
The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action conditionally, a member of the union’s National Executive Committee told Channels TV early Friday. The union decided to suspend the strike during a meeting of its leadership that started on Thursday night and lasted into the early […]
Management of Bayero University, Kano has dismissed information circulating that the institution was set to resume academic activities. SOLACEBASE reports that the university said its attention has been drawn to a fake and unfounded information circulating in the social media , announcing the resumption date of the institution. This was contained in a […]
Femi Falana, the lead counsel to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has disclosed that the academics’ 8 months of industrial action will be called off in days, not weeks. The senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN) made this known at a book launch titled “Breaking Coconut with your Head”, […]
The Bill establishing National Board for Arabic and Islamic Studies (NBAIS) before the National Assembly has been set for public hearing on 11th October 2022 amidst several challenges The Nigeria Association of Teachers of Arabic and Islamic Studies (NATAIS) announced this in a communique on Sunday, after its National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting held, […]
