Education
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Oct- 2020 -19 October
NECO reschedules exam, alleges protesters seize materials’ truck
The National Examinations Council has announced the rescheduling of the Paper I Computer Studies Practical earlier fixed for today (Monday) between 10am and 1pm. The paper has now been fixed…
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17 October
17 Kaduna State University Medical Students Test Positive For COVID-19
It has been reported that as many as 17 medical students of Kaduna State University (KASU) have caught the dangerous COVID-19. The students were recalled for examinations when they tested…
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17 October
IPPIS: ASUU orders members to shun FG’s officials on biometric capture
The leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities is set for a fresh clash with the Federal Government as it has ordered its members across the country to shun the…
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16 October
ASUU, FG meeting inconclusive, adjourned
Thursday’s conciliatory meeting aimed at putting an end to the strike action embarked upon by university lecturers has been adjourned to October 21. The industrial action, which started over six months ago,…
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15 October
UPDATED: FG, ASUU meeting over IPPIS ends in deadlock
ABUJA—THE meeting between the Federal Government and the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, over the controversial Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, platform last night ended in…
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15 October
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[BREAKING] ASUU strike: FG agrees to pay N30bn earned allowance
The Federal Government has agreed to release N30 billion earned academic allowance to the university lecturers. The money will be paid in tranches between May 2021 and February 2022. The…
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15 October
FG, ASUU meet today to resolve strike
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, will today (Thursday) meet with the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities in a bid to end the over…
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15 October
JUST IN: FG, ASUU resume negotiation on lingering strike
The federal government has on Thursday resumed negotiations with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to put an end to the lingering strike action. For over six months, university lecturers have…
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14 October
Poly can’t meet COVID-19 protocols for resumption –ASUP
The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics met on Tuesday in a fresh bid to avert a planned nationwide strike by the lecturers. ASUP had issued a…
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13 October
J.P. Clark, legendary Nigerian poet, is dead
Pepper Clark, popularly called J.P. Clark, is dead. He was 85. The poet, who has been ill for a while, died on Tuesday, PREMIUM TIMES learnt from a close associate,…
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