Prevail on universities to reverse fee increase, PTA tells Tinubu, fears mass dropout Lecturers slam FG over poor funding, students will take to cybercrime, parents warn As tertiary institutions across the country begin a new session next week, the Academic Staff Union of Universities, parents and students started protests as more varsities continue to … Read more
JAMB RESTRICTS UNIVERSITIES, POLYTECHNICS FROM SALES OF POST UTME FORMS Higher education institutions in Nigeria, such as universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education, have been ordered to stop marketing part-time, remote learning, and other alternative admission forms to applicants. The examination board said that all admission into first-degree programmes, National Diplomas, National Innovation Diplomas, and … Read more
The Organised Labour has vowed to proceed with a total, comprehensive and indefinite nationwide shutdown of the country, should there be another increase in Petrol Pump price from the existing 617 naira, which it describes as “illegal”. NLC President, Joe Ajaero, gave the notification on Monday, at the African Trade Union alliance meeting in Abuja, … Read more
TINUBU APPOINT 400 LEVEL UI STUDENT AS MEMBER OF PRESIDENTIAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE Orire Agbaje, a 400 level Economics student of the University of Ibadan (UI), has been appointed by President Bola Tinubu as a member of the presidential committee on fiscal policy and tax reforms. Team Osun The Positive Voice understands that Agbaje is the … Read more
The 2023/2024 screening/registration exercise of all newly admitted UTME and DIRECT ENTRY candidates will hold from Monday, 14th August to Friday, 8th September 2023 from 9:00 a.m to 3:00 p.m., in accordance to the Registration Schedule indicated… Click on https://unilag.edu.ng/?p=24825 to view details.
MEETING WITH PRESIDENT TINUBU The leadership of the Nigerian Labour Congress led by its President, Comrade Joe Ajaero, and that of Trade Union Congress, Comrade Festus Usifo, held a meeting with President Bola Tinubu Wednesday evening at the State House, Abuja. Consequent upon the fruitful and frank discussion with President Tinubu and their … Read more
The Organised Labour, comprising the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and Trade Union Congress (TUC), is reconsidering its decision to embark on a nationwide strike on Wednesday, August 2, 2023. The strike is scheduled to begin with a mass protest. After the rescheduled presidential steering committee on palliatives meeting held in Abuja on Tuesday, Emma Ugbaja, … Read more
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has stated that it will join the planned industrial nationwide strike of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) which is set to begin on Wednesday, August 2. Speaking with newsmen on Monday, the ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, said that ASUU is still consulting on the matter with … Read more
The Nigeria Labour Congress has commenced mass mobilisation ahead of its planned nationwide strike scheduled to begin Wednesday to protest the hardship occasioned by the fuel subsidy removal. In a schedule obtained by our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday, the NLC urged Nigerians to “join us at the Unity Fountain, Abuja on Wednesday, August … Read more
Academic unions, such as the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, have also begun nationwide mobilisation of their members for the strike scheduled to commence on Wednesday. The national presidents of the two unions, in separate interviews with our correspondent in Abuja, noted that as affiliate members of … Read more
