A total of 364 visually impaired candidates are to sit the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in eleven centres across the nation. The PUNCH reports that the special examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for the visually impaired candidates will hold between 27 and 29 April 2023 under the supervision of the…
National Youth Service Corps has issued important notice to Prospective Corps Members (PCMs) with discrepancies in their Date of Graduation as uploaded on the NYSC portal and the date on their Statement of Results will not be registered in the Orientation Camps. PCMs are urged to sort out such issues with the Student Affairs Officers…
Following the increment of tuition fees and several agitations from students, the management of Ekiti State University has declared two weeks academic suspension. Below is the full details; Ekiti State University,Ado – Ekiti. Directorate of Information & Corporate Affairs. 11th April, 2023. PRESS RELEASE SUSPENSION OF ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES FOR TWO WEEKS The Vice Chancellor, Ekiti…
The National Youth Service Corps ( NYSC) has opens the portal for 2023 Batch A stream II registration. All concern PCM should login through this link https://portal.nysc.org.ng/nysc1/ Registration closes 17th April, 2023.
The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has said any vice-chancellor who misappropriates the grant given to their institution by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund in line deserves to be in jail. He said the Federal Government should set up a panel to enquire into the utilisation of such funds,…
The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 7, and Monday, April 10, as public holidays to mark this year’s Easter celebration. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola, made the declaration in Abuja. Aregbesola, in a statement signed by the Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Shuaib Begore, on Wednesday, urged Christians to emulate the virtues of sacrifice, togetherness,…
The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has adjourned to May 2 hearing on the case between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities over lecturers’ eight months’ salaries withheld by the government. The union has, however, expressed optimism that the “truth will prevail” over the matter. The Minister of Labour and Employment,…
Following threats by the Nigeria Labour Party (NLC) to embark on a nationwide strike and picket Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) branches, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, says the dispute has been apprehended and the strike action won’t hold. The union had vowed to protest following the cash crunch in the country…
The National Industrial Court on Tuesday adjourned the Federal government suit against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) until March 28 for ruling. The claimants, Federal government and the Minister of Education, had dragged ASUU before the court in August 2022 over the then strike, for interpretation and application of some Trade Dispute Act…
Two months after requesting for the details of the members of the Congress of Nigerian Universities Academics, the Federal Government is yet to release the withheld salaries to the members of the union, Sunday PUNCH has gathered. The PUNCH had reported how the Federal Government, through the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation, requested the details…
