EDUCATION

FG’s style of casualizing academics criminal – ASUU fumes

Daily Dispatch December 1, 2022

Chairman of the Academic Staff Union, Federal University Wukari, Joe Ikwebe, has expressed dissatisfaction over the federal government’s inability to settle staff salaries after eight months of strike action by the lecturers. Ikwebe made his position known on Thursday at a press conference held

EDUCATION

FEC okays compulsory mother tongue for teaching in primary schools

Daily Dispatch November 30, 2022

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, gave approval for a new National Language Policy to be mainstreamed into the Nigerian educational system. According to the policy formulators, in the nearest future mother tongue will become a compulsory medium of instruction from Primary 1 to 6. Minister of […]

EDUCATION

‘Parental guardian, antidotes to wrong use of social media’

Daily Dispatch November 29, 2022

Parental guardian has been identified as the only way to discourage the school age children from sourcing the social media wrongly which has led to a lot of social vices, such as; kidnapping, cultism, rapping, robbery among others. The Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu said this during the seminar […]

EDUCATION

HND holders to be employed as assistant lecturers in polytechnics – NBTE

Daily Dispatch November 28, 2022

The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) said on Monday that holders of Higher National Diploma (HND) would soon be employed as Assistant Lecturers in polytechnics and monotechnics. The Executive Secretary of the board, Prof. Idris Bugaje, disclosed this while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria in Kaduna. Bugaje pointed out that currently, only […]

EDUCATION

Be moulders of life: Arigbabu charges French language teachers

Daily Dispatch November 28, 2022

The Ogun State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu has charged French Language teachers to be good life moulders by taking the opportunity of the language to impart morals and values into the learners. Prof. Arigbabu gave the change during the Opening Ceremony of 2022 World French Teacher’s Day, organised by the […]

EDUCATION

UniAbuja ASUU protest unpaid salaries

Daily Dispatch November 25, 2022

The Academic Staff Union Of Universities (ASUU), University of Abuja branch, on Friday staged a peaceful protest at the institution’s Mini Campus over withheld salaries. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the union members staged the protest following the ‘No Work No Pay’ policy and court order that mandated the lecturers back to […]