EDUCATION

Dangote offers automatic employment to Kan

Daily Dispatch October 22, 2022

The President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, has promised automatic employment to all first class graduates of Kano State University of Science and Technology, Wudil, which has been renamed after him. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Shehu Musa, made the disclosure while briefing

EDUCATION

FG’s plan to ban ASUU won’t work – Osodeke

Daily Dispatch October 21, 2022

The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, has declared that every attempt made by the federal government or its agent to ban the union will fail. The ASUU president described the Minister of Labour, Dr. Chris Ngige, as a jester over his alleged efforts at proscribing the union. Osodeke […]

EDUCATION

FG provides N470billion for upward adjustment of lecturers’ salaries

Daily Dispatch October 19, 2022

President Muhammadu Buhari-led government on Wednesday disclosed that it has provided N470 billion Special Fund in the 2023 budget for university revitalisation and upward adjustment of lecturers’ salaries. The development was announced by the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed during a press briefing in Abuja. Ahmed disclosed that N470bn was provided in the allocation to

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ICPC shuts 62 illegal degree-awarding institutions, fake NYSC orientation camp

Daily Dispatch October 19, 2022

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has sealed 62 illegal degree-awarding institutions in Nigeria. Also shut down was a fake National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) Orientation Camp. The Chairman, Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye made the disclosure on Tuesday at a Youth Dialogue on Corruption in Tertiary Institutions in Abuja. Represented by

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Ondo orders students, civil servants to wear native attires on Fridays

Daily Dispatch October 18, 2022

Ondo State Government has ordered that all students attending both private and public schools, as well as all state employees, must go to work and school on Fridays dressed in traditional attires. The action, according to the state government, was taken to encourage culture and traditions among state citizens. This was revealed in a media […]

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MAPOLY students storm street over hike in fees

Daily Dispatch October 17, 2022

Academic activities were disrupted as students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic including officials of National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Ogun Axis, took to the streets to protest an alleged hike in tuition fees by the management. Though a peaceful demonstration, the action saw most of the students shutting down the entrance to the polytechnic, disrupting […]