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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says the admission processes for 2017/2018 will commence on Sept.15 and close on Jan.31, 2018. The Head of JAMB Information and Media, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bwari, Abuja, on Friday. Benjamin said that the direct entry applications for admission would close Sept. 15. He explained that students could only secure admission after they might have passed through the rudiments of admission processes. “We have come up with Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) this year. “This entails that once candidates are admitted and the institution approves, then JAMB will approve, the information about the candidates will be keyed into CAPS automatically. “Candidates can monitor their admission process through CAPS online and those who want to get admission letter can do so by printing such online.’’ According to him, CAPS will make record gathering easy and give easy access to studen

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday said university lecturers stampeded the government into signing the 2009 agreement which has been a source of incessant strikes by the teachers. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is currently on strike over the failure of the government to implement the agreement. Speaking at a book presentation yesterday at the University of Ibadan, he said the government allowed itself to be pushed into signing agreement without full consultation within government. However, he added that regardless of that, the government was bound to implement whatever agreement reached with workers’ unions. He said: “Government allows itself to be stampeded into signing the agreement particularly when one group or the other withdraws their service and go on strike. After the agreement has been signed, without full consultation within government and implementation becomes an issue. “But an agreement is an agreement whoever the agent is that signed tha

The national strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has once again disrupted the academic calendar. While students and their parents groan about the impropriety of the strike, ASUU leaders defend their decision to shut the classrooms until the Federal Government honours the 2009 Agreement. After a three-year break from prolonged national strikes, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) started an indefinite strike on Monday, causing concern for students and their parents. The lecturers are not to return to the classrooms or laboratories of public universities until the Federal Government honours the 2009 agreement with the union. The unfulfilled agreement the union is fighting for include the non-payment of Earned Academic Allowances (EAA), the failure to complete modalities to set up the Nigerian Universities Pension Commission, withdrawal of funding from staff schools, and the non-injection of the agreed N200 million funds yearly into the university

A hip-hop artiste and songwriter, Olawale Ashimiu (aka Brymo), has advised students to be creative, saying success is no longer determined by only academic certificates. He said people changing the couse of events in 21st university dropouts using their creative minds. Brymo spoke at Red Carpet Speaker Series, an event organised by the University of Ibadan (UI) Theatre Arts students. The artiste said a little part of the knowledge students get from university would be used in the labour market, saying their success would be determined by their creativity and personal development. He urged the students to study hard for good grades, saying quality education would help them to hone their talents when they graduate. He said: “I am not saying you should not acquire education, because it is the key to unlock opportunities. But, everything you are being taught in school would be a springboard to help you attain your dreams. When you graduate, you would use little of that knowledge. Your

The Senate on Wednesday appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities ( ASUU), to call off its nationwide industrial action in the interest of the country. The indefinite strike action embarked upon by ASUU members entered its 4th day on Thursday. The upper legislative chamber described the strike by the University teachers as a surprise to it having intervened earlier in the year when ASUU embarked on warning strike. It said that its intervention facilitated renegotiation of some outstanding issues between ASUU and the Federal government on the implementation of the 2009 agreement. Chairman, Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, Senator Jubrin Barau who made the plea at media briefing in Abuja said ASUU needed to call off the strike for renegotiation proper to commence between it and the Federal Government. Barau noted that the industrial action should not have been the first option by the university teachers since the Senate and by extension, the Nationa

Fed Govt says action illegal Strike grounds universities ASUU’s grouse •Non-licensing of the Nigerian Universities Pension Commission (NUPEMCO) to manage contributory pension which has hit over N1b •Non-payment of Earned Academic Allowances of N128 billion •Non-remission of N880b to upgrade infrastructure of universities since 2013 UNIVERSITY teachers are likely to return to work soon, going by some steps taken yesterday by the Federal Government. •Minister of Labour and Employment Chris Ngige met with representatives of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU); and •The meeting agreed on the forensic audit of the N30 billion given to ASUU in 2010. There will be monthly remittances while the audit lasts. A statement by Samuel Olowookere of the ministry said the meeting would resume today to take a significant step towards a quick resolution of the “total, indefinite and comprehensive” strike and welfare of teachers and funding of university education as contained

The Bayelsa State-owned Niger Delta University (NDU), Wilberforce Island, was, Monday, shut down by students following what they described as outrageous increase in all categories of fees in the school. The aggrieved students were said to have shut the gate to the main entrance of the school in Amassoma, Southern Ijaw, stopping vehicular movement into the campus. The protest, which coincided with an indefinite strike declared by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) reportedly, crippled academic and social activities on campus. The students were said to be angry over hike in school fees, electronic course registrations and non-inclusion of students’ representation in decision-making. The demonstration, which was led by the President of the Student Union Government (SUG), Mr. Kemes Mitin, was said to be peaceful without skirmishes. The students lamented that the school authority was gradually turning the state university into a private institution in its quest to r

The Academic Staff Union of Universities in Nigeria (ASUU) has expressed displeasure at the mandatory sale of handouts by some lecturers in tertiary institutions. Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, President of the union, expressed this view in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Abuja. “It is not wise for lecturers in our tertiary institutions to compel students to be buying handouts, though it is not a widespread practice; we have few people that are misbehaving. “But the system has a way of handling them, so anywhere they see them they always put them on check. “It is not permitted in the system and there is a structure for tracking and dealing with that so ASUU as a union don’t condone it and we discourage it anywhere and everywhere we go,’’ he said. However, a cross section of Nigerian students had decried the rate at which some lecturers extort money from them in the name of selling of handouts. Speaking in separate interviews with NAN, students lamen

‘It’ll be total, comprehensive, indefinite’ Situation on campuses University teachers are set for major strike, it was announced yesterday. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said the strike “will be total, comprehensive and indefinite” to press home lecturers’ demand for improved welfare and working conditions. ASUU National President Dr. Biodun Ogunyemi said the union took the decision after a nationwide consultation with its members at an emergency National Executive Council (NEC) on Sunday. According to him, there will be no teaching, no examination and no attendance of statutory meetings of any kind in any of the union’s branches during the strike. He said ASUU must make the Federal and state governments to implement the provisions of the 2009 Agreement, the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) of 2013 and the understanding reached in November 2016 in order to lay the foundation for a university system capable of producing a country of our dream. Dr. Ogunyemi

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the Federal Government to look into the plight of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to avert the indefinite strike. Mr Chinonso Obasi, National President, NANS made the call in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Monday. “It is with deep pain and regret that NANS received the news of another indefinite strike by ASUU over the Federal Government’s indifference to their plight. “Nigerian students sees the break down in negotiations as a further proof that political leaders don’t care about their future. “Consequently,, we wish to call on the Federal Government to do all it can to get ASUU back to the classrooms. “The demands of ASUU are reasonable and touch on the integrity of government, especially in the light of the fight against corruption,” he said. According to him, NANS finds it hard to believe that past governments would fail to honour agreements with members of ASUU for more

University teachers are set for another strike over the controversial 2009 agreement they reached with the Federal Government among other issues. A meeting of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of ASUU will hold today in Abuja ahead of the action. Yesterday, all chapters of the union nationwide held a congress as directed by its national body to decide whether or not to go ahead with the planned strike. The options given to them are: Whether it should be total and indefinite strike, one month strike, one week notice, and no strike at all. This followed the directive sent to branches by ASUU National President Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi as he was mandated by the NEC meeting held at the Nasarawa State University (NSU). Chairman ASUU-Lagos State University (LASU) Dr Isaac Akinloye Oyewunmi said yesterday that the chapter resolved in favour of “total and indefinite strike”. In August last year, the union threatened strike over the government’s failure to implement the 2009 agree

  The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved 14 programmes at the Technical University (Tech-U) in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. A statement by the Media Office said the approved courses would be run in the seven departments and two faculties of the institution. The two faculties are: Faculties of Natural Sciences and Engineering and Technology. The approved courses with full accreditation are: Microbiology, Industrial Chemistry, Physics with Electronics, Software Engineering, Computer Science, Cyber Security, Mathematics and Statistics.  Others are: Agricultural Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Food Science and Technology, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechanical Engineering as well as Petroleum Engineering. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ayobami Salami, hailed the approval. He said the university would ensure that higher education lives up to its highest potential to ennoble the human spirit and advance human society. Salami said:

WAEC attributes improvement in students’ performance to teacher training ON AUGUST 9, 201711:29 AMIN NEWSCOMMENTS The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has said its assessment standard coupled with teachers’ exposure to refresher courses enabled many candidates of the 2017 May/June examination to make good grades. Mr Demianus Ojijeogu, the Head of Public Affairs Department, WAEC, Nigeria, made the explanation in a telephone intervew on Wednesday. Ojijeogu explained that the council had been training its examination coordinators and assessors on the marking scheme prior to the examinations. According to him, the quality of teachers preparing the candidates and the examiners has also improved, especially those involved in coordinating and marking candidates’ scripts. He said that the teachers as well as the examiners were exposed to the exact things and standard expected of the students in examinations and thereafter pass same to the students. He further said that if the students

University of Nigeria Study Group on African Literature   Dear all Symposium to Mark the 50 th Anniversary of the Death of Christopher Okigbo at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka on 10 August 2017 The University of Nigeria Study Group on African Literature, an accredited UNN research group will hold a symposium in memory of the Nigerian poet, Christopher Okigbo , who worked briefly in the University of Nigeria before he was killed in battle at the early stages of the Nigerian Civil War. This year marks the fiftieth anniversary of this tragic event. With due regret for the late issuance of this notice, the University of Nigeria Study Group on African Literature cordially invites you to the Symposium marking the sad anniversary. The lead paper will be given by Nathan Suhr-Sytsma, Assistant Professor of English and Core Faculty Member,  Institute of African Studies /Irish Studies at Emory University, Atlanta Georgia, who recently published a major work on Okigbo