Reading Time: 1 minute SWITZERLAND, DECEMBER 06 – Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti, on Thursday said it has sacked over 600 members of staff over alleged irregular employment, overage and sundry other allegations. The Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Edward Olanipekun, said the decision of the ...

Reading Time: 1 minute SWITZERLAND, NOVEMBER 27 – Lagos state government has said it will commence payment of the new minimum wage of N35,000 with effect from November. This was contained in a circular dated 27th November 2019 addressed to heads of ...

Reading Time: 1 minute SWITZERLAND, NOVEMBER 26 – The management of Federal University of Technology Akure, Ondo State, has expelled the six students, who physically assaulted a female undergraduate, Boluwatife Adekunle, inside a private hostel on November 16. The students are Popoola ...

Reading Time: 2 minutes SWITZERLAND, NOVEMBER 20 – Despite the resistance of the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) to the government’s Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System(IPPIS), the Federal Government has planned to go ahead with the enrolment of all federal universities ...

Reading Time: 1 minute SWITZERLAND, NOVEMBER 12 – Chika Ofili, a 12-year-old Nigerian boy in the United Kingdom has received the TruLittle Hero Award for a special breakthrough in mathematics. The news was shared by the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission(NIDCOM), headed by ...

Reading Time: 2 minutes SWITZERLAND, NOVEMBER 04 – The Federal Polytechnic, Ado Ekiti, has been shut on the orders of the authorities of the institution. According to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Students’ Union Government (SUG) has also been banned ...

Reading Time: 2 minutes SWITZERKAND, NOVEMBER 04 – Twenty-two states have not recruited teachers for primary or secondary schools in the last five to 10 years, data from the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) have shown. The figures showed that some states ...

Reading Time: 2 minutes SWITZERLAND, OCTOBER 28 – Nigerians have taken to the social media to criticise the Academic Staff Union of Universities over its stance on the Federal Government’s Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) for public service workers. The ...

Reading Time: 2 minutes -President Buhari says all Public sector workers must enrol on the IPPS to curb corruption and block leakages. -ASUU disagrees, saying the IPPIS negates principle of University autonomy. SWITZERLAND, OCTOBER 28 – The Academic Staff Union of Universities ...

Reading Time: 2 minutes Olufolajimi Abegunde, a 32-year-old Nigerian resident in Atlanta, Georgia has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role in a cyber fraud scheme. According to a statement on the US department of Justice website, the announcement ...