Abia State News

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Labour Unions to allow his administration concentrate on fixing infrastructure in the country rather than distracting it. Buhari, said this during a meeting with the Executive Committee of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) at the State …

Nigeria Government has made a u-turn on its previous stand of no-work-no-pay policy for striking Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Federal Government’s u-turn was contained in a Memo from the National Universities Commission, NUC, and dated Monday December 3, 2018 It said all the Vice…

Chairman, University of Ibadan chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Dr. Deji Omole has described the federal government as shameless for owing lecturers seven years of unpaid earned academic allowances and still want them to continue to work for free while the Presidency …

The Federal Government has directed Vice Chancellors of the striking public universities and inter-varsity centers, to enforce no-work-no-pay rule on striking lecturers. This is following the deadlocks that have trailed attempts, to end the ongoing strike by lecturers across all Federal Governme…

President Muhammadu Buhari has warned Nigerian elites to stop misleading the people through their unguarded utterances. Buhari, who is the visitor to University of Uyo, gave this warning at the 24th convocation ceremony of the institution on Saturday. The President, who was represented by Mr Ib…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday accused the Federal Government of planning to force students in public universities to pay N350,000 tuition fees per session. The union’s Ibadan Zonal Coordinator, Dr. Ade Adejumo, stated this when he addressed reporters at the Oyo State…

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has released the 2018 ranking of all the 36 States, plus the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja in Nigeria. Abia tops the chart, ahead of Anambra, Edo, Rivers and Imo states. However, some states have risen above the positions they were during the…

The 17th Matriculation Ceremony of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has been scheduled for Saturday, 23rd June, 2018. The ceremony will hold simultaneously at the 78 study centres of the university across the country. In a statement on Thursday, the Director of Media and Publicit…

Nigerian Government has scrapped Award of HND Certificates by Polytechnics. The decision was reached at the Federal Executive Council, FEC, on Wednesday where the approval of a comprehensive reform of Nigeria’s tertiary education system was made. In effect, the award of HND will be limited to o…

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has released a list of approved post-graduate awarding institutions in Nigeria. A bulletin issued on Monday from the office of the Executive Secretary dated May 14 contains the list of federal, state and private universities currently allowed to issue su…

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has released the list of 58 illegal universities in Nigeria. According to the commission, the listed universities are yet to be licensed by the federal government and have been shut down for violating the national minimum standard for education, Premium Ti…

No fewer than four students of the Imo State University Owerri were on Sunday feared dead after two rival cult groups clashed in Owerri, the state capital. The bloody clash that threw the city into stampede was said to be between members of Aye and Bagger confraternities in the University. Acc…

The Abia State Polytechnic, Aba, has reopened as members of the Non academic staff union (NASU) in the state owned institution, suspended their four weeks old industrial action after a congress of the union held in the school premises. Speaking to newsmen after the union’s congress, Chairman of …

Members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Abia State chapter, have suspended their 3-week old industrial action. This followed the successful intervention and negotiations between the leaders of the union and officials of Abia State Government led by the Deputy Governor, Rt Hon. Sir Ude Ok…

The West African Examinations Council ( WAEC ) is compiling names of supervisors who worked against the ongoing May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination ( WASSCE ), for sanctions by relevant authorities. The council’s Head of Public Affairs Unit, Mr Damianus Ojijeogum, made t…

A 400-level Economics student of the Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, Obinna Chiaha, was, at the weekend, killed by a commercial motorist. Eyewitness said the driver tried to overtake a trailer when he hit Chiaha. The incident, which occurred close to the university…

Monica-Osagie-as-she-appears-in-several-blogs Miss Monica Osagie, the student at the centre of a sex-for-mark scandal rocking the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has denied shunning an invitation by the panel probing her audio tapes of her conversation with disgraced Professor Richard Akinde…

Abia State Teachers On Strike Over 6 Months Salary Arrears Teachers in Abia public schools have embarked on strike over six months salary arrears owed them by the state government. This was even as the teachers accused the state leadership of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) of undermining the…

Nigeria’s Flag Mr Victor Koreyo, Lecturer, Department of Ceramics and Glass Technology, Akanu Ibiam Federal Polytechnic, Unwana, Afikpo, Ebonyi, has declared intention to renounce his Nigerian citizenship for what he called social injustice. Koreyo in a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari, made…

No fewer than 80,000 pupils sat for the 2018 National Common Entrance Examination on Saturday in their bid to gain admission into the 104 Federal Government Colleges (Unity schools) for the 2018/2019 academic session. Our correspondent learnt that Lagos State alone had 31 per cent of the pupils…