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Two Nigerian Universities feature in the World’s Top 1000 in Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2024

Adewale Ade — Wed, 27 Sep 2023 17:58:54 +0000

Nigeria has two universities in the world’s top 1,000 in Times Higher Education’s World University Rankings 2024. Covenant University and the University of Ibadan are the jointly highest-ranked universities in Nigeria, both coming 800-1,000, in Times Higher Education’s (THE) largest World University Rankings (WURs). The Federal University of Technology Akure and the University of Lagos [...]

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Nigerian Universities Cannot Compete With Other Top Institutions In The World – NUC

David Folami — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 11:09:13 +0000

The National Universities Commission, NUC, have said that Nigerians universities cannot compete with other top univerities in the world because they have undermined quality, character moulding among their great virtues. NUC also said 303 applications from private universities that apply for licenses for operations were in its possession and the figure they are working with [...]

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Governor Aregbesola commissions UNIOSUN Access Road as Alakija donates N250m to Project Completion

Ade Adewale — Sun, 22 Oct 2017 14:39:36 +0000

The Governor of Osun State, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, has described the situation where operators of Universities in Nigeria rely on subvention from the owners and burden students with humongous tuition fees as intellectual laziness. The Governor observed this at the formal opening of the access road to the University of Osun (UNIOSUN), at the entrance [...]

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Anti-Corruption: EFCC Boss Magu advocates for Related Courses in Universities, sets to Sponsor Researchers

Kunle Edun — Wed, 09 Aug 2017 22:37:23 +0000

The acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has called on Nigerian universities to review their curriculum to include a course focusing specifically on anti-corruption. He added that the agency is ready to sponsor research work at doctorate level for the next 10 years. “From January 2018 the EFCC will sponsor up to [...]

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NLC urge FG to honour Collective Agreements

Alaba Rotimi — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 18:45:51 +0000

The President of Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Mr Ayuba Wabba, on Wednesday told the Federal Government to embrace collective bargaining agreement to avoid constant crises in the nation’s educational system. He gave the advice in Abuja when he led a delegation to the National Secretariat of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU). “Agreements [...]

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SSANU Threatens To Embark On Indefinite Strike Action

Wale Adebayo — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 08:01:09 +0000

Following a directive by the Federal Government for universities to retrench workers of University Staff Schools, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has threatened to declare an indefinite strike. Mr Samson Ugwoke who is the National President of the association, made the plan known at a news conference in Abuja on Friday. He [...]

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Mass Unemployment Looms In Nigeria – SSANU

Wale Adebayo — Sat, 28 Nov 2015 19:00:31 +0000

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU), yesterday, said that mass unemployment looms in the country following epileptic power supply that is hampering the operations of industries. According to the National President of SSANU, Comrade Samson Ugwoke, who raised the alarm at the SSANU 2015 National Delegate Conference holding at the University of Nigeria, [...]

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