TETFund Waives Sanction For Lecturers Who Collected Money For Conference They Didn’t Attend
The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arc. Sonny Echono, has said the Fund will waive its planned sanction for polytechnic lecturers who collected money for conference attendance but failed to embark on the exercise. Echono, who stated this in Abuja on Thursday, during a courtesy visit byContinue Reading
TETFund Tasks Polytechnics On Employability Of Graduates
By ABAH ADAH, Abuja Nigeria’s education tax custodian for public institutions of higher learning, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), has charged polytechnics in the country to focus on producing skilled and innovative graduates that are employable in the labour market. The Executive Secretary of the Fund, Arc. Sunday Echono,Continue Reading
NCCE Seeks Closer Collaboration With TETFUND
The National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) has sought for a stronger synergy between the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) and the Commission by instituting some changes in the Fund’s intervention processes as it relates to Colleges of Education (CoE). Executive Secretary of NCCE, Professor Paulinus Chijioke Okwelle madeContinue Reading
BREAKING: Wife Abducted, Husband, Ex-Councillor, Shot in Gwantu
By Hashim Muhammad Shamaki For the second time in less than three weeks heavily armed kidnappers stormed Gwantu – Headquarters of Sanga local government area of kaduna state where they kidnapped a woman after shooting her husband. Reports reaching us have it that the kidnappers, despite military presence, invaded theContinue Reading
World faces ‘formidable’ challenges over COVID-19, monkeypox, warns WHO
The world is facing “formidable” challenges, including COVID-19, monkeypox, and the war in Ukraine, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Addressing the opening session of the UN World Health Assembly in Geneva on Sunday, WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said the “formidable convergence” of the newContinue Reading
Fatima Sanda Usara: Hajj after the Hiatus
2022 Hajj, the first in two years is a Hajj with many peculiarities. Ordinarily, Hajj arrangements would have reached a climax in Nigeria around this time, only waiting for appropriate stages of execution. By now, even intending pilgrims would have bidden their distant relatives farewell as it is onlyContinue Reading
KWASU releases names of newly promoted Professors, Associate Professors
AUTHORITY of the Kwara State University, Malete has released names of five newly promoted staff into rank of Professor while four PhD holders made it to the rank of Associate Professor. The promotions were approved at the 59th Regular Meeting of the Governing Council of the University held on ThursdayContinue Reading
Russia alerts Nigerian Govt on US-Funded Labs in Zaria, Lagos, Abuja, calls For WHO’s Investigation
According to the Defense Ministry’s briefing slides, two US-controlled biolaboratories operate in the city of Abuja, one in the city of Zaria, and another one in Lagos Russia calls on the WHO leadership to investigate the activities of US-funded Nigerian laboratories in Abuja, Zaria and Lagos, Chief of Russian Radiation,Continue Reading