The management of the University of Benin has approved the indefinite suspension of the university’s Student Union Government. In a statement on Monday by the university’s Registrar, Ademola Bobola, the institution said the suspension was in connection with the attack on the Edo State Labour Party’s candidate, Olumide Akpata, by some students believed to be members of the student union. […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari again came down hard on governors over what he said was their unbridled ill-treatment of the administration of resources at the local government levels, causing what he termed stunted development experienced at the third tier of government and unfair labelling of his administration at the grassroots. The President bared his mind yesterday after he delivered a speech […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) chapter, has directed its members to withhold examination results of students in protest over eight months unpaid salaries by Federal Government. The university lecturers’ union also directed its members to boycott, forthwith, departmental, faculty and Senate council meetings, aimed at approving results of students until the salary issue […]
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• FG blames oil theft for massive borrowing • Economists prescribe securitisation for flexible repayment, urge govt to pursue growth policies • There is so much corruption in bureaucratic processes, says Utomi Barely six months to the end of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, the Federal Government’s total debts and other financial liabilities have reached N71.46 trillion. The figure does not include undocumented […]
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The National Association of Nigerian Students, South-West zone, has kicked against the reported half salaries being paid to lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities by the Federal Government. NANS, in a statement by its SW zone, obtained on Thursday, and signed by its Coordinator, deputy Coordinator and Public Relations Officer; Adegboye Olatunji, Alao John and […]
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Reps to consider N170bn for lecturers’ welfare, N300bn revitalisation funds in 2023 proposed budget …Call for National Summit on Tertiary Education Reform …Doctrine of ‘no-work-no-pay’ is inapplicable to lecturers — Falana Fresh threats have sprung-up in the struggle of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) against the Federal Government, over the discretionary action of the latter to […]
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The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has charged students, parents and other stakeholders to protect infrastructures in state-owned schools in their communities. The governor gave the charge during a meeting with traditional and religious leaders, teachers, parents, pupils and private school owners, as well as other stakeholders, tagged, “Together We Can Do More,” at the Government House, Benin City. […]
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The West African Examination Council has finally revealed it examination will commence in the month of August and end in September. As we a know the West African Examination Council is an examination board which was established by the law to determine the examination required in the public interest in the English speaking West African countries, in conducting the examinations […]
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Certificates obtained outside Nigeria will continue to be more valued and considered over those obtained in the country due to some factors, the United Kingdom-based Metropolitan School of Business and Management, has said. Among the reasons adduced for the value placed on foreign certificates by the institution include “use of dynamic and relevant practice-based approaches” and the combination of corporate […]
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Brief History Of Esan Culture & People Esan (pronounced /aysan/) is one of the major ethnic groups in Edo State, Nigeria. The name ‘Esan’ owes its origin to Bini and was once corrupted to ‘Ishan’ by colonial Britain. Esan land is bordered to the south by Benin, to the south-east by Agbor, to the north and east by Etsako,to the […]
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