President Muhammadu Buhari signed into law the Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers Act, 2022 which increases the retirement age of teachers in public schools. Section 1 of the Act states that public school teachers shall compulsorily retire on the attainment of 65 years of age or 40 years of pensionable service.

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the issuance of provisional licenses for the establishment of 12 new private universities nationwide. The memo for the establishment of the universities was presented to the Council by the Minister of State, Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba on behalf of the National Universities Commission (NUC). This was disclosed on Wednesday by the Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed at the end of the Council’s meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

The National University Commission (NUC) has approved the upgrade of the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto to be henceforth recognized as Sokoto State University of Education. The approval came as the 58th of its kind as a state University and 206th university in Nigeria. The Executive Secretary of the NUC, Prof. Adamu Rasheed while presenting the recognition certificate to the Sokoto State governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal in Abuja, said the Shehu Shagari University is now the first University of Education in Northern Nigeria also the 4th of its kind in the whole country.

The Federal Government has on Thursday disclosed that plans are underway to boost the salaries and the conditions of service of teachers across the country. The Minister of Education for State, Chukwuemeka Uwahiuba made the disclosure during the Seplat Energy Roundtable and STEP Certificate Award ceremony for teachers in Benin.

The Academic Staff Union of the Nigerian Universities (ASUU) has concluded a plan to extend its industrial action for another two months. Daily Trust reports that ASUU has concluded its plan during a meeting of last night at yet to be disclosed location that the academicians are determined that they will hold the government hostage until their demands are met. The statement said,” I can tell you that deliberations are still ongoing as far as our warning strike is concerned, but it is most likely that we extend the strike by 8 weeks,”

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that it has registered over 500,000 candidates for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).