-AS PICTT/NASENI Unveil Initiative supporting Female Engineers to succeed in Engineering and Technology-Based Enterprises The Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive Officer (EVC/CEO) of the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI),…
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PRESIDENT TINUBU: I TAKE FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE NATION; SAYS,HIS GOVT. IS BUILDING AN EFFICIENT NIGERIA THAT IS INCLUSIVE AND FAIR TO ALL NIGERIANS
By Onwe Wisdom President Bola Tinubu says his administration is working to ensure that Nigeria is reformed for greater efficiency with a particular emphasis on systematically inculcating fairness and equity in…
Reps laud TETFUND for promoting research, innovations amongst Nigerian students, youth
…as Kalu calls for more innovative hubs in S/East Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has been applauded by the House of Representatives for championing creative researches and establishing innovative hubs for…
Nigeria’s Perilous University System: SOS Mr. President Tinubu
By Prof M.K. Othman Public university employees are Nigeria’s most disenchanted, discontented, and embittered workers. The segment of the academic staff housing the teachers is at the bottom of the ladder in…
Professor Abubakar-Surajo Imam: Nigerian Defence Academy Army’s first professor
Mr Imam is said to be the first professor from among serving personnel in the history of the Nigerian Army. The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) has conferred the title of a professor…
FGN-ASUU Face-off: IPPIS Suffocating the University System
By Prof. MK Othman The popular view among stakeholders that IPPIS is killing the Nigerian University System is fait accompli. IPPIS stands for Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). It is…
1,000 Enone Students To Benefit From Hon Philip Agbese’s N10m Bursary Scheme
The lawmaker representing Ado/ Okpokwu/ Ogbadibo Federal Constituency, Hon Philip Agbese, has announced a bursary scheme for students in tertiary institutions across the three local government areas that make up the…
TETFund INVESTIGATION: Agbese, colleagues sue for transparency, accountability and efficiency
Call for judicious use of funds released to institutions by TETFund. In furtherance of the investigation of TETFund projects in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions by the House of Representatives ad-Hoc committee, Hon Philip…
Re: Need to Pay Salaries of Striking University Workers
By Prof. MK Othman As expected, this article elicited many comments from my readers with special appeal to President Tinubu to address the thorny issues, which caused industrial disharmony in our university…
Gov. Slashes State Varsity School Fees By 50% To Cushion Effects Of Subsidy Removal
The Governor of Taraba State Agbu Kefas has slashed the student fees of the state university by 50 percent to cushion the effects of subsidy removal. Kefas gave the directive when…
REPS. MEMBER INTRODUCES NEW BILLS FOR CREATION OF AGRIC COLLEGE, NON-OIL PRODUCING COMMISSION
A bill for the creation of the Federal College of Agriculture Agila, Benue State, on Wednesday, passed its first reading in the House of Representatives. The bill was sponsored by Hon…
PRESS RELEASE RE: KEBBI STATE EDUCATION SECTOR AT VERGE OF TOTAL COLLAPSE AS WORLD BANK SET TO DIVERT APPROVED FUND EARMARKED FOR KEBBI AGILE PROJECT TO SOKOTO STATE
1. I am to refer to an open letter by one Ahmed Umar published by Kebbi Trust and to clarify insinuations made by the writer in respect of the above subject…
EndASUUStrike: Need to Pay Salaries of Striking University Workers
EndASUUStrike: Need to Pay Salaries of Striking University Workers By Prof. MK Othman ASUU strike was forcedly suspended in October 2022. It was suspended not ended but can be ended in this…
NCC Chairman, Adeolu Akande lauds LAUTECH at 33
Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Adeolu Akande has congratulated the management, staff, and students of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso on the institution’s 33rd anniversary. Akande…
15th Convocation: DELSU Academic Stability Sustainable; ASSU Remains Strategic Part Of The University System – Prof. Egwunyenga
Vice Chancellor, Delta State University, Abraka, Professor Andy Egwunyenga has said that the prevailing academic stability in the University is because all welfare needs of the academic Institution have been addressed….
Education is the Right of Every Citizen and it Must be Free – SDP Presidential Candidate
The presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the 2023 general election, Prince Adewole Adebayo, has taken a swipe at the promise by APC presidential candidate, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu…
President Buhari Commissions Dangote’s $2.5Bn Fertiliser Plant
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday commissioned the new 3 million Metric Tonnes capacity per annum state-of-the-art Dangote Fertiliser Urea Plant, with an emphatic assurance that the project would give a huge fillip to…
Russia Offers Admissions To Nigerians
His Excellency, Ambassador Abdullahi Y. Shehu, Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to the Russian Federation with concurrent accreditation to the Republic of Belarus with His Excellency, Mikhail…
PRESS BRIEFING ON THE APPROVED 2022 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION POLICY BY THE HONOURABLE MINISTER, DR. OGBONNAYA ONU HOLDING ON 15TH MARCH,2022 AT THE HONOURABLE MINISTER’S CONFERENCE ROOM, BLOCK D, 4TH FLOOR, FEDERAL SECRETARIAT.
PRESS BRIEFING ON THE APPROVED 2022 SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION POLICY BY THE HONOURABLE MINISTER, DR. OGBONNAYA ONU HOLDING ON 15TH MARCH,2022 AT THE HONOURABLE MINISTER’S CONFERENCE ROOM, BLOCK D, 4TH FLOOR,…