According to the Registrar of JAMB, Prof Dibu
Ojerinde while announcing the release of the 2014 UTME results at JAMB headquarters, a total of 990,179 candidates applied for PPT while 25,325 candidates applied for DBT which amounts to 1,015,504 applicants".

Out of this, 36,164 were recorded as invalid results and 37,315 are for applicants who were absent on the exam date. 2,494 results were withheld due to various examination malpractices.

Ojerinde revealed that in PPT, 275,282 candidates scored below 150, 122,157 scored 150-159; 115,456 scored 160-169, 315,401 candidates scored 170-199 while 108,488 candidates scored 200-249.

According to report, Rita had left home on Tuesday and for three days, she was nowhere to be found. Her friends, colleagues and family members searched for her to no avail and on Thursday, they got the shock of their life as they were called to come and see dead body.

Rita’s bag which had some of her personal belongings and her phone was found by her side and that’s how they were able to reach out to some people who disclosed her identity, and promised to come to the scene immediately.

A team of policemen from the Ijeshatedo Police Station which had responded to the call by members of the Neighbourhood Watch, had a hectic time dispersing passers-by from taking snap shots of the body and they also declined comment about the incident.

 

The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) on Tuesday urged the Federal Government to meet the union’s demands, to end its over four-month-old strike.

NASU’s General Secretary, Mr Peters Adeyemi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that the no work, no pay directive issued by the government would further compound the strike.

Adeyemi said the chairmen of Governing Councils of Federal Polytechnics had met with the leadership of NASU, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics to plead with them to suspend the strike.

“At the end of the meeting, we made our stand known, that the union would not accept the payment of Consolidated Tertiary Institution Salary Structure (CONTISS) 15 arrears in two installments, March and November, as proposed by the government.

Some students of Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State staged a not-too-peaceful protest yesterday to express their displeasure over epileptic power and inadequate water supply which have been plaguing the university for some time now.

A student who craved anonymity narrated the incidence to Loladeville "This issue has been going on for some time now, in fact, it started during the tenure of the last VC but it wasn't as bad as this, this new VC made it worse. At times they'll supply light for just few hours especially in the morning, it's just so annoying and painful. We pay over N400, 000 as school fees yet we don't enjoy all the basic amenities a private university should have. It's not just fair."

Didn't you make formal complaints? "Yes we did but it's been story upon story. Nothing has really been done."

Heard some places were razed down, "Sadly it was, it took a dramatic dimension, we didn't know it was going to escalate to this level. It just shows the level of frustration that has set in. The boys left their hostels for the temporary site and burnt some stuffs down. That's all I can say for now."
 
They had to use tear gas to stop the protest.

Due to the spate of Boko Haram attacks on schools in the North East, the Federal Government has shut down five Federal Unity Colleges in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states.

Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, communicated the approval in a statement by his Special Assistant on Media, Simeon Nwakaudu, on Wednesday in Abuja.

The decision followed reports submitted by the principals of the unity schools in the three states.
Violent Islamic sect, Boko Haram, last Tuesday attacked Federal Government College, Buni Yadi, Yobe State, killing no fewer than 30 students.

It had been reported that government was considering the option of closing unity schools in the North East which had been under the attacks of Boko Haram for weeks.

President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Dr. Nasir Fagge, has said that the union will resist the rise in tuition fee at the Lagos State University.


He added that the establishment of universities by the government should be for knowledge acquisition rather than for profit making.

While speaking at a symposium organised by the Education Rights Campaign group held at the University of Ibadan, Fagge said the hike in tuition fee would not take care of infrastructural demands in LASU but would deny children of the poor masses access to public education.

He said, "Universities are not commercial centres for internally generated revenues but knowledge production centres. The new fee introduced by the school would have come earlier than now but it was halted by the intervention of ASUU through a delegation led by Dr. Dipo Fashina.

The University of Ilorin, UNILORIN,  announced the expulsion of three undergraduate students for an alleged internet fraud and theft.

According to a report in the university's bulletin, one Adeyemi Daniel Oluwaseyi of the Basic Medical Sciences was found guilty of unlawfully taking possession of ATM card and PIN belonging to another student while Mkperedom Olalekan Okon of the Arts Faculty was found guilty of internet-related fraud.

The institution also reprimanded forty other students of the school for violating the university's dress code.

A yet to be confirmed report but from an impeccable source has it that Lagos State University will resume on the 24th February 2014. This suggested that the crisis at the varsity might have been resolved after all.

Our source revealed the resumption details as followed;


LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY RE-OPENS
AS SCHEDULES:

A. Final year students and stranglers Only

i) 24th February,2014- Re-opening of the University for Final Year Students Only

ii) 24th & 25th Feb,2014 -University porter opens for Final Year Students only till 12 Midnight of 25th Feb, 2014.

iii) 26th -27th Feb,2014- Capturing and production of Exam Dockets.

iv) 28th of Feb 2014…… Collection of Exam Docket

V) Monday, 3rd March, 2014- Commencement of Exam for Final Year Students.

Two serving members of the National Youth Service Corps, O'tega Daniel, 27, and Sulaimon Abari, 26, were arraigned on Monday in an Ibadan Chief Magistrates' Court sitting at Iyaganku for engaging in homosexual practices with a pupil.


The News Agency of Nigeria reported that Abari, a graduate of the Lagos State University, Ojo, and O'tega, were performing the national service at St. Louis Secondary School 2, Molete, Ibadan.

The duo were arraigned on a three-count charge of conspiracy, procuring as well as getting hold of their victim.

The prosecutor, Inspector Olufemi Eyiaromi, told the court that the two accused persons conspired to commit the offence.

Eyiaromi alleged that Daniel procured and got hold of the male pupil, took him into a room, laid him on a bed, caressed him and orally sucked his manhood until the minor released semen.

The West African Examinations Council has announced the introduction of 39 new subjects in its examinations.

The Council's Acting Head, Test Development Division, Mrs. Olayinka Ajibade, who announced this, said the new subjects would commence in this year's May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination.

Ajibade said this while delivering a paper titled "The new Senior Secondary Education Curriculum in Nigeria: Implications for Assessment" at the council's monthly seminar in Lagos on Friday.

The fresh initiative, she said, was in accordance with the Nigerian Education Research and Development Council's new secondary school curriculum.

The NERDC is the body responsible for reviewing primary and secondary schools' curricula in the country.

She said, "The implementation of the new SSCE curricula began in September 2011, meaning that the maiden public examinations based on the new/ revised curricula are expected to be held in May/ June 2014.

Barely 24 hours after the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, called off its 5-month old strike, the University of Nigeria Nsukka, UNN, has been shut down indefinitely by the institution's workers.

At a heavy protest in the University on Wednesday, all the workers union demanded the immediate sack of the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Bartho Okolo.

Okolo is being accused of corrupt practices and neglect of due process in running the affairs of the university.

 

The Supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike has disclosed that all contending issues between the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Federal Government have been resolved.
He made the disclosure in a statement following his meeting with the leadership of the union on Wednesday.
He also lauded the patriotism and strong will demonstrated by members of the union to uplift the standard of education in the country.

The minister, who had earlier threaten members of the union with sack following their refusal to call off the over five months old strike in the country's universities, stressed that ASUU want the best for the country.
According to him, "I am very pleased to announce that all contending issues between ASUU and the Federal Government have been resolved to the satisfaction of the parties. Let me emphasize that we recognize and appreciate ASUU's patriotic role and commitment towards ensuring that our Universities are well-funded, resourced and run like their counterpart in other parts of the world. Thus, we are all partners in progress and there is no victor; no vanquished in the struggle of this nature for as long as our goals remain noble, not actuated by parochial interests, and targeted at moving our nation forward".

He also assured that the Jonathan's administration is serious about revitalizing all universities and will continue to fund them as a matter of priority.

 

For failure to return to classrooms, the Senate of the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) has sacked all academic staff on its payroll with immediate effect. The sack order was made known by the Public Relations Officers (PRO) of the institution, Mr Chike Ezenwa, while speaking with the Nigerian Tribune in Owerri, through telephone.

According to him, the senate of the university had declared all the positions of academic staff in the institution, adding that they would be advertised starting from Monday, December 2.

The senate council, he explained, had already compiled the list of vacant positions in the school, adding that who were willing to resume would be adequately protected. Continue...

Meanwhile, the FUTO branch of ASUU has said any attempt to break their ranks would be strongly resisted by their members.

This was contained in a communiqué issued at the end o their meeting held on Monday, and signed by both the chairman and secretary, Dr Ikenna Nwachukwu and Dr F.M. Eke respectively.

The communiqué urged members to ignore the resumption notice by FUTO management, adding that the branch would not engage in any academic activities until the Federal Government commited itself to implementing the ASUU-FGN agreement.

Source: NigerianTribune

Management of the University of Port Harcourt has announced December 9th as resumption date for academic activities in the institution.

The management made the announcement after an extra-ordinary Senate meeting held on Tuesday.

Deputy Registrar, Information, of the University, Dr. William Wordi told DailyPost that the management of the institution found it worthy to end the 5-month old strike in the interest of the students.

Wordi said the Senate also decided to pay the backlog of salary areas of lecturers who resumed work on the announced date.


Meanwhile, the UNIPORT chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, said there is no going back on the strike until the Federal Government meets all their demands.

Chairman of ASUU in the University, Prof. Anthonia Okerengwo said the students would be wasting their time if they resumed on the stipulated date.

She said the Union was not moved by Federal Government's threat to sack lecturers who refused to resume to work.