By SOYOMBO OPEYEMI There is intellectual recession in Nigeria. It is high time we conducted an intellectual audit of tutors in our higher institutions of learning. Is it refutable, as someone recently argued, that ‘half-baked’ graduates are produced by ‘half-baked’ lecturers; that a mango seed can only produce a mango fruit, certainly not an…
Ede Poly Lecturers Commence Strike
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, have commenced a sit in industrial action to protest the non-implementation of Consolidated Tertiary Institution Salary Structure. Adeyemi Komolafe, Chairman of ASUP, Osun State, and Kayode Azeez, vice chairman of the union, disclosed this in interviews in Osogbo on Wednesday. According…
UNIZIK Suspends 5 Lecturers for Misconduct
The management of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, UNIZIK, Awka, Anambra State has suspended five lecturers for examination misconduct. Emma Ojukwu, the institution’s Director of Publications, confirmed the suspension in an interview in Awka on Tuesday. He said that the lecturers were suspended on March 2 for three months with half salaries pending the outcome of the…
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