EDUCATION

ASUU Strike: “It must never happen again” Speaker Gbajabiamila

Daily Dispatch October 15, 2022

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, said all hands must be on deck to ensure academic strikes in universities become a thing of the past. The Speaker made the comment in a statement welcoming the end of an eight-month long strike embarked upon by the Academic

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Breaking: Strike: Final year medical student turned food vendor dies

Daily Dispatch October 15, 2022

A Medicine and Surgery final year student of Usmanu Danfodiyo University Sokoto (UDUS), who ventured into food selling business due to prolonged ASUU strike, Usman Abubakar-Rimi is dead. Abubakar-Rimi opened a food outlet and noddles joint in the Diplomat area in Sokoto State, North Western Nigeria. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the […]

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ASUU, Students And Season of “Three Idiots”

Daily Dispatch October 14, 2022

By Kunle Awosiyan One of the best motion pictures of 2009 and award winning movie is “Three Idiots”. It stars Aamir Khan as Rancho with his two other friends Farhan and Raju. They are all university students of Engineering alongside Chatur, aka Silencer, the only African among them from Uganda. He can memorise anything to […]

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Breaking: ASUU suspends eight months strike with conditions

Daily Dispatch October 14, 2022

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has suspended its eight-month-old strike with conditions, The Eagle Online has been told. However, the President of the union, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, will formally convey the message to Nigerians. According to informed sources, the National Executive Council of the ASUU took the decision to suspend the strike with conditions […]

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12 Nigerian Universities Surge Iin 2023 Global Rankings- Okebukola

Daily Dispatch October 13, 2022

AT least 12 Nigerian universities have shown remarkable improvement in world ranking and were applauded at the Times Higher Education World Academic Summit which ended in New York on October 12. Chairman of the Nigerian Universities Ranking Advisory Committee (NURAC), Professor Emeritus Peter Okebukola made this known to reporters in Abuja on return from the […]

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ASUU has reached an agreement with government over the ongoing ASUU Strike.

Daily Dispatch October 13, 2022

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Calabar, Branch, has disclosed that some understanding has been reached, while some shifting of grounds has been made but only National Executive Council (NEC), will convey the resolutions. Addressing newsmen shortly after its Congress at the International Conference centre on Wednesday, October 12, 2022,