How LASUSOC Cultivated National Leadership for LASU
On Tuesday September 1, 2020, two days before the announcement of LASU as the nation’s second foremost university according to Times Higher Education Tertiary Education Ranking, the tone was set for another trans-generational landmark at the Lagos State University School of Communication, LASUSOC. That day, without any tone of compulsion, nearly all of us as…
20 WAEC Candidates test positive for Covid-19 in Bayelsa
Tests conducted on students currently writing the senior school certificate examination in Bayelsa State have shown that 20 of them have shown traces of Covid-19. This was made known by the state task force on Covid-19 said on Monday. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Health and secretary of the task force, Dr. Inodu Apoku, disclosed…
COVID-19 and the Inevitable Teaching Dynamics
From Mudasiru Olalere Yusuf Necessity is said to be the mother of invention, and invariably it fuels action. The 2018 Spanish flu and its twin, the second world war which started the same year, led to the robust believe that the film will supplant the contemporary education. Thomas Edison in 1922 gleefully proclaimed that the…
UNIBEN’s Second Female VC assumes Office
The inauguration ceremony of Lillian Imuetiyan Salami, professor of home economics and nutrition as the 10th vice-chancellor of the University of Benin came to an abrupt end Monday following an announcement that she had been invited by the state governor. No sooner a cultural dance by students of English and Literature studies finished their performance…
Sex for Marks: Ambrose Alli University VC in Quandary
Between a rock and a hard place; this seems to aptly describe the present predicament of the vice-chancellor of Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma, Edo State, Ignatius Akhakhia Onimawo, a professor of human nutrition, (nutritional biochemistry) as the crisis rocking the university over an allegation of sex-for-marks leveled against the institution’s chairman of the Academic…
FG: Private Varsities Must Reduce School Fees
The federal government has appealed to owners of private tertiary institutions to reduce their school fees to achieve their optimum carrying capacity. Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja during the 8th edition of the weekend ministerial press briefing. According to him, over 30 per cent of total carrying capacity…
ASUP Ends 2 Months Old Strike
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP has suspended its two-month-old strike. ASUP National President, Usman Dutse disclosed this during a National Executive Council, NEC meeting today in Abuja, directing members of the union to commence academic activities immediately. The strike, which started on Wednesday December 12, 2018 was embarked upon as a result of…
FG Announces Mid Term Break For Schools Ahead of the Presidential Election
Ahead of the forth coming presidential election, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu has announced February 15 to 19 as midterm break for students in unity schools across the country. The break which is to enable parents have maximum time to go and cast their votes is only limited to the Presidential elections.