The Council of the University of Abuja has approved the dismissal of, Prof. Adeniji Adedayo Abiodun of the Department of Animal Science at the Faculty of Agriculture over sex escapade involving his female students.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, announced on Thursday at the ongoing 4th World UNWTO/UNESCO
World Conference on Tourism and Culture in Kyoto, Japan that there are plans to establish community museums as this will benefit local communities within the country.
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has raised alarm that the Department of States Services (DSS) is planning to arrest them whenever they will embark on protest. The student body warned that its Association will not relent in protest if the secret police made attempt of keeping one of their member behind bars for protesting as a result of this alarm.
In an attempt to end the deadlock over refusal of some University lecturers to enroll into the Integrated Personnel and Payroll System (IPPS) policy of the Federal Government, on 2nd December, 2019, Accountant-General of the Federation, Ahmed Idris issued a letter to all the Vice-Chancellors of the Federal Universities warning that, lecturers who failed to enrol on the IPPIS platform on or before Friday, December 6, 2019, will be appropriately sanctioned.
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has exposed about 100 fake professors across Nigerian universities.
President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the construction of a new Transport University in Katsina, which is said to be completed within 18 months. President Buhari, during the inauguration of the first university of transportation in sub-Saharan Africa, stated that the school will boost local capacity, economy, domestic technology, enhance innovation in the nation’s transport system, and provide employment opportunities.
