World Teachers Day: President Buhari Upgrades Teacher’s Salary

In commemoration of the World Teachers Day on October 5, President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a special salary scale for teachers in the country He also increased the number of years of service from 35 to 40. Mr Buhari said this in Abuja on Tuesday during the celebration of the 2020 World Teachers Day. The Education Minister, Adamu Adamu, who represented President Buhari, said the implementation of the new salary scheme is to encourage teachers in delivering better service. The 2020 theme of the World Teachers’ Day is Teachers: leading…

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Abiodun grants all Ogun students aut

-Adewale Adetoyese The Governor Dapo Abiodun led Ogun State Government has announced that all students had been given automatic promotion to the next class, including automatic placement for primary 6 students in public primary schools into JSS1 of public secondary schools as schools reopen on September 21. The new students who will be resuming for the first time after the nationwide closure in March due to the COVID-19 pandemic, will join students in SS3 who are currently writing the West African School Certificate Examination. The students will be resuming in…

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Afe Babalola Tells FG To Reopen Private Universities

-Adewale Adetoyese “Reopen private varsities, public school not ready.” Afe Babalola Founder, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola, has urged the Federal Government to reopen private universities, noting that many public institutions are not ready to resume. Our correspondent S’Teller gathered that Babalola, who said COVID-19 has “exposed the unpreparedness of public universities in the areas of poor infrastructures, underfunding, inefficiency and corruption which ASUU had documented and published”, said although he was not a fan of ASUU in view of its penchant for strike actions, the lecturers’…

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Lecturers At Colleges Of Education Declare Nationwide Strike Prior To Resumption

Nigeria lecturers under the aegis of Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has directed its members nationwide to “immediately” withdraw their services. The lecturers accused the Federal Government of failing to provide outstanding N441 billion resulting from the recieved NEEDS Assessment of the Federal Colleges of Education. TellAfrica gathered that the President of COEASU, Nuhu Ogirima, made this known during a press conference in Abuja on Thursday. He said, “We have directed our members nationwide to withdraw their services with effect from today (Thursday). “It is quite evident that…

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Unilag Appoints First Female Acting VC Amid Crisis

The Senate of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, has elected the deputy vice-chancellor in charge of development services, Folasade Ogunsola, as the institution’s acting vice-chancellor. She is the first female to be so appointed in the history of the 58-year-old ivory institution. Mrs Ogunsola, a professor of medical microbiology and first child of Nigeria’s first professor of Geography, Akin Mabogunje, was also the first female provost of the university’s college of medicine, Idi-Araba. She defeated her opponent and a deputy vice-chancellor in charge of management services, Ben Oghojafor, with…

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Examination Malpractices: Imo State Public Schools Charge N2k Per Subject/ Student

Allegations have been made that some public secondary schools in Imo State are charging students N2,000 per subject to provide them with answers to questions in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The school owners met with students before the commencement of the examination where they informed them that they would provide the answers if each student paid N2,000 per subject. A relative of the students, who spoke with our correspondent S’Teller, said the schools claimed that majority of the students might fail because of the Coronavirus lockdown…

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