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The Management of National Youth Service Corps wishes to inform members of the public that the 2022 Batch ‘C’ Stream One Orientation Course would commence on Wednesday 2nd November, 2022 and end on Tuesday 22nd November, 2022. The three weeks Orientation exercise would hold simultaneously in all the thirty-six NYSC Orientation camps across the country including the FCT, Abuja. All the prospective Corps Members (including the foreign-trained) must present themselves for COVID-19 Rapid Diagnostic Test (RDT) or present evidence of full vaccination at the Camp before registration. Prospective Corps Members are advised not to embark on night journey to the Orientation Camps in order not to endanger themselves. Details of camp addresses and locations would soon be made public in the national dailies and online media. The NYSC Director General, Brigadier General MK Fadah wishes all Prospective Corps Members and other stakeholders safe journey to their respective Orientation Camps. Thank you. ...

The Academic Staff Union of the Universities (ASUU) has appealed to the Federal Government to reconsider its stance on using Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) for paying its members’ salaries. Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, President ASUU, said this at a meeting with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila and other stakeholders in Abuja on Monday. He said that IPPIS would not accommodate peculiarity allowances in university lecturers pay. Osodeke urged the government to consider the adoption of the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS)platform for the payment of lecturers salaries. “There is no way IPPIS can represent the universities, the greatest problem university has is funding. No university can invest again because of Treasury Single Account(TSA),” he said. He said the union called off its strike based on trust, adding that the country’s education was in dire need of human resources. “If there is a problem in...

The Federal Government has been advised to keep to its side of the agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, by urgently paying the salaries of the lecturers to enable them fully commence work in the various public universities. The Campaign for Equal Rights and Opportunities for all Nigerians, CERON, made the appeal Sunday through its Secretary, Mr. Francis Odiir while reacting to concerns raised by the leadership of ASUU over the payment of the withheld salaries of lecturers following their eight months long strike that was recently called off. The ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke had in a recent interview noted that the lecturers had called off their action and returned to work but were challenged by the nonpayment of their eight months salaries which had posed a huge challenge for the lecturers to meet their daily needs and be able to discharge their responsibilities to the returning university students. Mr. Odiir said the returning lecturers ...

After eight months of absence from classrooms as a result of the strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, the University of Ilorin will reopen its campus on Monday, October 24, 2022, to continue its 2020/2021 academic session. A statement signed by Mr Kunle Akogun, Director of Corporate Affairs of UNILORIN, on Friday said that  Final Year and Postgraduate students of the institution will resume lectures on October 24, 2022, while other students will return to the school for lectures on December 15, 2022. According to the statement, the resumption of the students followed the ratification of the amended Academic Calendar by the  Senate of the University at its 291st meeting on Friday, October 21, 2022. It also said that students of the Faculties of Agriculture and Veterinary Medicine, who are yet to complete their Rain Semester examinations before the commencement of the strike on February 14, 2022, will also resume on October 24 to conclude th...

The national leadership of the Non-Academic Staff Union, Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta chapter, has issued a notice of one week strike to the management of the institution. The union said its branch would embark on a seven-day strike from Monday, October 24, 2022. This was disclosed in a letter titled, “Notification of a seven-Day strike action”, dated October 7, signed by the Senior Assistant General Secretary, Damola Adelekun, and addressed to FUNAAB Vice-Chancellor. Adelekun revealed in the letter that some complaints have been made against the office of the VC on the statutory procedure for the welfare of NASU members at the institution. The letter reads in part: “The union headquarters has been inundated with an avalanche of complaints against your exalted office over the statutory procedure of the welfare as the well-being of NASU members at the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta. “This your anti-NASU policies and illegality can be deduced from t...

The senate, Yusuf Maitama Sule University, Kano, formerly North West University, over the weekend gave approval for second semester lectures for the 2020/2021 academic session to commence tomorrow, Monday, October 24, 2022. At the meeting, the vice-chancellor and chairman of the senate of the University, Professor Mukhtar Kurawa, assured of the provision of a conducive learning environment. Furthermore, the VC reaffirmed his administration’s determination to uplift the standard of the higher academic institution disclosing that the university has secured approval for the commencement of some new undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Similarly, in a press statement, signed by the varsity’s Public Relations Officer, Abdullahi Hassan, and made available to The PUNCH, Kurawa noted that the university under his leadership had recorded tremendous accomplishments in the areas of academic and infrastructural development. According to the VC, there are five different categories...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said that some universities in Nigeria are engulfed in crises because their vice-chancellors (VCs) regard themselves as the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of their schools. The ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, stated this yesterday while delivering his goodwill message at the special commemorative programme organised by the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago Iwoye in Ogun State, Chapter of the union to honour the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the institution, Professor Ganiyu Olatunde, whose tenure ended two weeks ago. Osodeke warned vice-chancellors of public universities in Nigeria to shun dressing in the apparel of CEOs of their respective institution when in reality, they are just the first among their equals in the academic community. Osodeke berated the situation whereby governors, must give approval before a university lecturer can be promoted, even despite the recommendation of the governing cou...