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Two months after President Bola Tinubu approved the release of withheld four months’ salaries for Nigerian lecturers, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said its members are yet to receive the salaries.ASUU President, Emmanuel Osodeke, a professor of soil science, also said most of its demands that the Nigerian government claimed to have met…

The House of Representatives, on Wednesday, rejected a motion urging members to adopt at least one public school in their localities for the purpose of paying registration fees for students sitting for the West African Examination Council, National Examination Council and Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board examinations in public schools. Trouble started when a member…

About 450 will graduate with First Class out of 25,234 graduates in the University of Ilorin combined sessions of 2020/2021 and 2021/2022 convocation ceremonies. The Vice Chancellor, Prof Wahab Egbewole who addressed journalists on Wednesday in Ilorin, as part of activities to herald the convocation ceremonies also said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu will inaugurate…

The authorities of the University of Ilorin say President Bola Tinubu, the institution’s Visitor, will on October 23 unveil some projects its administration recently completed. The university’s Director of Corporate Affairs, Mr Kunle Akogun, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, highlighting the institution’s combined 37th and 38th convocation ceremonies. “Both the graduates of the…

The attention of the Management of the University of Ilorin has been drawn to a social media news report on a planned protest by a group of former students of the University with respect to some convocation items they are expected to have. These are their personal effects and necessary commemoratory mementos for the successful…

The Babatunde Idiagbon Flyover Bridge at Tanke will be open for use from Monday, October 16th, and closed again on Tuesday, October 24th, ahead of the convocation of the University of Ilorin, the Kwara State Ministry of Works and Transport said in a statement on Saturday. Members of the public are to note, however, that…

This is to inform you that the submission of hard copies of approved supplementary Senate/Academic Boards uploaded list for the 2023 Batch ‘C’ will commence effective from Monday, 16th October, 2023 at the NYSC NDHQ, Abuja.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has rejected plans by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to include private universities in the country as beneficiaries of its projects. ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, who disclosed the position of the union during a two-day interactive session between TETFund and all unions of beneficiary institutions, argued…

The University of Abuja has started a real fight against drug abuse, saying no student will be offered admission without undergoing a drug test. The university Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’allah made this known at the 27th Pre- Convocation briefing in Abuja on Wednesday. According to him, the institution is working with the National Drug…