CHUKWU DAVID reports that the Senate, in a recent legislative intervention, took stringent measures against perpetrators of kidnapping and rape by prescribing life imprisonment for kidnappers and passing sexual harassment bill to tackle the vices…
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University students drawn from across the country, yesterday took over the streets of Abuja to protest the continued closure of schools despite the reopening of certain sectors from the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic.…
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Indeed, the Nigerian university system is no stranger to crises. If it is not fight for university autonomy, underfunding, political interference, lack of respect for agreements, it is some mundane “ego” issues. These crises have…
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CRISIS Fifty-eight-year-old University of Lagos is in the storm over the removal of the Vice-Chancellor. But, while other critical stakeholders are condemning and challenging the Governing Council, the Pro-Chancellor/Chairman of Council is insisting that…
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Dakuku Peterside, PhD. Indeed, the Nigerian university system is no stranger to crises. If it is not fight for university autonomy, underfunding, political interference, lack of respect for agreements, it is some mundane “ego”…
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It was unarguably a statement of satisfaction from Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, the president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), of the new kick that Nigerian universities were getting towards scaling up research and…
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Fresh crisis is brewing at the University of Lagos (UNILAG) over yesterday’s sacking of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olawatoyin Ogundipe, by the Governing Council of the institution. Ogundipe was accused of wrongdoing, financial recklessness and abuse…
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As the outcry following the Senate passage of the Sexual Harassment Bill 2020 into law last month continues to rage in some quarters, the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), Abuja Chapter, Mrs. Hauwa…
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Professor Bamitale Omole is the immediate past Vice-Chancellor of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, where held sway between 2011-2016, and now the Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of the Governing Council, Ekiti State University, Ado-Ekiti. In this…
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CHUKWU DAVID reports that the Senate, in a recent legislative intervention, took stringent measures against perpetrators of kidnapping and rape by prescribing life imprisonment for kidnappers and passing sexual harassment bill to tackle the vices…
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