Anthony Esijolomi Afejuku, a Professor of English and Literature at the University of Benin, (UNIBEN) Benin City, Edo State, on Sunday, blazed the trail as the first retiring lecturer to be honoured, not just by the department, but the Faculty as well. Afejuku, described by one of his associates as an intellectual “Iroko” and “a…
ASUP Drags FG to Court over Appointment of Five Unqualified Rectors
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, (ASUP) has frowned at the appointment of allegedly unqualified rectors for five out of the six newly established Federal Polytechnics in the country. According to ASUP, the appointment of the unqualified rectors was against the Polytechnic Act of 2019. National President of the union, Anderson Ezeibe, knocked the federal…
Afejuku Presents ‘Autobiography of Nigeria’
The academic community of the University of Benin, (UNIBEN) Benin City, Edo State, will on Thursday join one of their own, erudite scholar, renowned poet and essayist, Esijolomi Anthony Afejuku, professor of Creative Writing in the department of English and Literature, to present the “Autobiography of Nigeria” at the university’s 245th Inaugural Lecture.A prolific writer…
AAU Management, Striking ASUU in Game of Wits Over Attempt to Break Strike
A desperate attempt by the new management of the crisis-rocked Ambrose Alli University, AAU, Ekpoma, Edo State, to reopen the university in spite of the ongoing strike action by university teachers, is being resisted by the local chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The Prof. Osarhieme Benson Osadolor-led management of the institution…
Edo State Government, AAU Workers in Face-off over Unpaid Salaries, Take-over of Varsity Admin by Governor
ASUU Set to Drag Obaseki to Court. All is not well at the Edo State-owned Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma where the workers, both academic and non-academic, are protesting recent unpleasant developments in the university. On Tuesday, members of the local chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU) and their Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU)…
Edo Govt Employs Arm-Twisting Tactics to Get Striking Teachers Back to Classes as Schools Reopen Feb. 1
[responsivevoice] …Invokes No-Work No-Pay Policy. As the Edo State government announces February 1, 2021 as resumption date for all educational institutions in the state, the reopening of schools after a long COVID-19-induced break may run into a hitch at the basic education level as the state government and primary school teachers tango over ongoing strike…
Collapse of Server: UNIBEN Post-UTME Candidates in a Fix over Admission
[responsivevoice] About 3,500 candidates who sat for the University of Benin, UNIBEN Post-UTME on Tuesday December 8 may be in a quandary following the announcement by the authority of the institution that its server had collapsed and the affected candidates would have to return to retake the test. With this development, the chances of their…
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…
