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After 82 days of embarking on strike to press home their demands, lecturers at the University of Abuja, Monday, announced suspension of their action. The university’s chapter of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, which announced the suspension at a news conference, explained that the suspension followed the union’s engagement with the new governing council,…

Leaders of the organised labour, including the Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) and the Trade Union Congress (TUC), have confirmed their acceptance of the N70,000 minimum wage offered by the Bola Tinubu-led Federal Government. Speaking after a crucial meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja, Comrade Joe Ajaero, President of the NLC, announced the unions’ decision…

Tahir made this known at the ongoing 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board policy meeting in Abuja. “We are working hard to ensure that a new curriculum is introduced for secondary schools by September,” Mamman said. Mamman noted that the exercise has been on for the past year and a stakeholders meeting will be held…

Stakeholders currently participating at the 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) policy meeting were rattled when the Minister of Education, Professor Mamman Tahir announced that candidates seeking admission into higher institutions must be 18 years and above. Immediately the Minister made the comment in his address and policy directive, the crowd roared “no, no,…

Students of tertiary institutions who have successfully applied for the Federal Government’s loan scheme and who are starting fresh academic sessions will begin to receive credit alerts from next week, said NELFUND. “The people who are going to first receive alerts as early as next week are the people who are about to start a…

Barring last-minute interventions, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Associated Institutions, NASU, will commence a protest in the nation’s capital Abuja on Thursday. The protest which is expected to kick off from the Unity Fountain Abuja by 8am will see the affected staff matching to…

Akintunde Sawyerr, the managing director of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), says over 110,000 applications have been received for the student loan scheme. Sawyerr was at the ceremonial launch of the student loan application portal at the statehouse council chambers in Abuja. He said 160,000 students had registered for the scheme while over 110,000…

Thousands of students at the University of Ibadan have protested against a hike in school fees and other issues. As early as 8 a.m., the visibly angry students moved in large numbers to all the entrances of the institution and blocked them. Both academic and non-academic staff were locked outside the gates. After blocking all…

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has onboarded Osun State Polytechnic, Iree, as a beneficiary institution for the student loan. In a statement On Tuesday, NELFUND announced that 22 new state-owned tertiary institutions had been added to the program, enabling their students to apply for loans. The statement reads, “The Management of Nigerian Education Loan…