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- 24 Jul 2022
Nationwide Shutdown: Banks, Electricity, Others to Join ASUU
Many unions and students bodies have decided join the strike in sympathy with Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) from this week, which may lead to a total shut down of their operations, an…
- 22 Dec 2019
ASUU Develops Own Software, UTAS, to Curb Corruption in Universities
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has pledged its readiness to fully support any step that would eradicate corrupt practices from the university system. Biodun Ogunyemi, National President…
- 13 Apr 2022
ASUU Accuses NITDA of Lying on UTAS’ Integrity Test Failure
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has returned a damning indictment on National Information Development Agency (NITDA) for allegedly deceiving Nigerians that the University Transparency and…
- 11 Nov 2021
Pantami not Qualified to be Professor –ASUU
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi State, has said that Isa Ali Pantami, minister of Communication and Digital Economy, was not…
- 27 Mar 2022
Putting the Records Straight: NITDA Clarifies Engagement with ASUU’s UTAS Platform
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has emphasised that it subjected the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS) of the Academic Staff Union of…
- 15 May 2022
Strike: Buhari Orders Fresh Integrity Test on IPPIS, UTAS, U3PS
President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) to subject the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and the two other…
- 30 Oct 2016
Jega Is First Fellow, Africa Initiative for Governance
The Africa Initiative for Governance (AIG) has announced Professor Attahiru Muhammadu Jega as the first AIG Visiting Fellow of Practice at the University of Oxford’s Blavatnik School of Government.…
- 10 Jul 2022
ASUU Strike: Electricity and Rail Workers to Down Tools
Nigerians may be thrown into blackout and experience disruption in rail service nationwide in the coming days, if the Federal Government remains adamant towards the demands of the striking unions in…
- 7 Dec 2022
AFCON, Oxlade, Will Smith, Queen Elizabeth, Buga, Others Lead 2022 Google Search Lists
Google on Wednesday announced the results of its 2022 Year In Search, revealing the most searched terms, people, actors, musicians, topics, questions and more that captured the interest of Nigerians…
- 13 Aug 2026
ESUT Workers Get N82,000 Minimum Wage as Enugu Approves Fresh Salary Increase
Enugu State Government has approved an increase in the minimum wage for workers of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) from N32,000 to N82,000 monthly, effective Sept. 1,…
- 28 Jun 2020
Re-imagining the Business School Model
By Austin Okere This pandemic has uncovered the soft underbelly of our unwillingness to think beyond the present and anticipate future eventualities. There have been various experiences and…
- 22 Mar 2022
Konga Lights Up 2022 NUGA Games
Konga, Nigeria’s leading composite e-commerce giant, has raised the tempo of the 26th edition of the Nigerian University Games Association (NUGA) Games. The event, hosted by the University of Lagos…
- 22 Nov 2020
Laptop, PC Scarcity May Persist Till Q3 2021
The ongoing scarcity of laptops and personal computers (PCs) may worsen as industry experts are now projecting that the prevailing paucity may persist until the third quarter of 2021. Previous…
- 15 Aug 2017
7 Things Nigerian Students Can Do While ASUU is on Strike
It has been a few years since students in Nigerians had to deal with long-term strikes; and just at the moment we thought the era of students having to stay an extra 2 to 3 years in school due to…
- 3 Jul 2022
SERAP Asks FG to Recover Missing N105.7Bn to Fund Universities
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the federal government to urgently recover the missing N105.7 billion of public funds from ministries, departments and agencies…
- 11 Sept 2013
FG Buys 53 Gold-Plated iPhones for N683m
Federal government has ordered 53 gold-plated iPhone 5S mobile handsets from Gold and Co., United Kingdom, said to be worth some £2.65million (about N682million). Amjad Ali, chief executive officer…
- 9 May 2022
NANS Threatens to Shut Down Critical Infrastructure over ASUU Strike
National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has threatened to block all federal roads and airports in the country as a way of reacting against the 12-week extension of the strike by the Academic…
- 19 Jul 2022
ASUU Strike: Banks Union, Others Threaten to Shut Down Operations
National Union of Banks, Insurance and Financial Institutions Employees (NUBIFIE) said it would shut all financial institutions to join the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) in its solidarity strike over…
- 12 Jul 2020
A Dirge to the Nigerian Research and Education Network
By Austin Okere There is no cheer about the recent pronouncements from the hierarchy in the education sector and the long-term impact on our youth. “Nigerian government reverses resumption of…
- 17 Mar 2015
Tara Fela-Durotoye, Others to Mentor Winners of Microsoft Mobile’s “From Passion to Empire” initiative
Microsoft Mobile Devices and Services has announced that it will be working with three highly successful indigenous entrepreneurs to mentor eventual winners of the ongoing ‘From Passion to Empire’…
- 17 Aug 2017
Firm Mulls Renewable Energy Workshop to Empower Students, Artisans
Renewable Energy has been recognized as a solution to address the poor and acute shortage of energy supply in Nigeria. Renewable energy, according to experts, is generated from renewable resources,…
- 21 Jul 2022
Peter Obi, Olu Jacobs, AFCON 2022, others Top Google Search Results in the First Half of 2022
Peter Obi, Olu Jacobs, AFCON 2022, Raheem Sterling, Osinachi Nwachukwu’s demise, Oxlade, Kizz Daniel and Tekno’s Buga and Blood Sisters top trending searches by Nigerians in the First Six Months of…
- 26 Jun 2015
Jobberman Facilitates 5000 Northern Youths Employment into Financial Industry
Jobberman.com, an employment website in Nigeria, has revealed that in an almost unprecedented drive to put as many qualified Northern professionals and candidates as possible back to work and as well…
- 5 Dec 2015
Nigerian Student Leaders Applaud Glo Campus Booster
Student union leaders have applauded Glo Campus Booster, the new product offering from Globacom, designed to ease study and research activities for Nigerian students in high institutions of learning.…
- 16 Jun 2013
UNN, UNESCO Partner on Science Fair
University of Nigeria Nsukka in conjunction with the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) will hold…
- 20 Feb 2014
NCC Sponsors 5,135 ICT Administrators’ Training, 139 Tertiary Institutions in DBI
Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), in pursuance of relevant sub-sections of its mandate, sponsored and monitored a train-the-trainer programme organised by the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI)…
- 6 Sept 2021
Pantami Becomes Professor of Cyber Security
Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, minister of Communications and Digital Economy, has been elevated to the rank of Professor of Cybersecurity. Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami Pantami had applied during a…
- 8 Aug 2015
Danbatta, New NCC Boss Resumes, Pledges to Tackle QoS
Professor Umaru Damabatta, newly appointed executive vice chairman and CEO of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), who has resumed duty in acting capacity pending confirmation by the…