The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has expended N185bn in the training of 35,000 scholars under its Academic Staff training in public tertiary institutions across the country. Acting director of academic staff training and development, Alhaji Abdullahi Imam, stated this when the representatives of the TETFund Scholars Alumni Steering CommitteeContinue Reading
Vice Chancellors of Nigerian universities have been urged to prioritise the actualisation agriculture transformation, urging them to make their institution the centres of excellence as soon as possible. The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arc. Sonny Echono, stated this in Abuja during the vice chancellors roundtable onContinue Reading
The Executive Secretary (ES), National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Prof. Idris M. Bugaje, has identified ASUU and ASUP strikes, outdated curricula, non-skill contents to be the major challenges militating against educational development in Nigeria. The ES who made the observation while delivering convocation lecture at the 10th Combined ConvocationContinue Reading
President Muhammadu Buhari has urged stakeholders in Nigeria’s education sector to continue to toe the path of dialogue in resolving the crises that have led to frequent strikes, disruption of academic activities, with a view to finding lasting solutions to them for unfettered development. The president made the call inContinue Reading
As of today, Nigerian students have been home for about 130 days, no thanks to the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities which has been on for over four months. There are at least 1.2 million students in Nigeria’s federal universities currently idling away at home. Meanwhile, ourContinue Reading