The vast majority of Nigeria’s top universities either do not have official electronic mailing addresses or do not actively use them in responding to enquiries and requests, The ICIR has discovered. A report published in May by The ICIR already established that the e-mailing culture among
EDUCATION
The Nigerian Union of Teachers, Niger State chapter, has instructed all teachers in the state to join in the nationwide strike for increment of wages by organised labour. Addressing newsmen on Monday at the end of the State Wing Executive Council meeting at the NUT Teachers House in Minna, the state chairman, Ibrahim Umar, called […]
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved more Postgraduate programmes for Bells University of Technology, Ota in Ogun. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Jeremiah Ojediran, made this known in Otta on Monday. Ojediran said that the approval was granted after a rigorous resource assessment by the NUC panel in December 2017. He said that […]
Kwara Must Change (KMC), a pro Democracy group in Kwara State, has described claims by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, that he introduced model reforms in education during tenure as state governor as ‘false and fraudulent’. The group, in a statement sent to newsmen by its spokesman, Abdulrazaq Hamzat, on Sunday, recounted some of the […]
No fewer than 300 priests of the diocese of the Niger( Onitsha area) on Friday stormed the Anambra State Government House, accusing the state governor of religious bigotry. The priests, all dressed in their robes and numbering about 300 blocked the Anambra State Government House in protest. They vowed not to leave the scene until […]
The Word Bank has approved a grant of $611 million to strengthen Universal Basic Education and tackle challenges in education sector in Nigeria. The Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, commended Word Bank for the initiative on Wednesday at the launch of Better Education Service Delivery For All (BESDA) in Birinin Kebbi . The minister, […]










