Category: Education

Kunle ADELABU The Tutor-General/Permanent Secretary (TG/PS), Education District II, Mr Olusanya Ebenezer Abayomi, has commended schools in Ikorodu for good performance.   He also urged parents to wait for the Supreme Court ruling on the controversies surrounding hijab wearing to schools by Muslim students.   The TG/PS spoke at the Oriwu Senior Model College Honours Day 2018/19 held at the School hall on Thursday, February 7, 2019.   “I have gone round some schools this morning to see what is going on when I arrived Ikorodu today. I was impressed…

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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its three months old strike after signing all agreements with the Federal Government. PM NEWS reports that Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU National President said this while addressing newsmen after a two-hour closed door meeting with the Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen Chris Ngige, on Thursday in Abuja. ASUU had embarked on strike on November 4, 2018 over its demands for revitalidation of universities, academic earned allowances, issuance of Universities Pension Management Company and other issues. According to him, after government…

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The Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Mr Imohimi Edgal has advised the protesting members of the Non- Academic Staff Union (NASU) of Lagos State Polytechnic to approach the court in seeking justice if they think the Lagos State Executive Council’s decision on the implementation of CONTISS 15 Migration was wrongly implemented. In a statement released on Wednesday by the institution’s Deputy Registrar (PR/Information), Olanrewaju Kamorudeen Kuye, it stated that police chief at a peace meeting held Tuesday, warned the union not to jeopardize the peace in the state and seek…

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The Lagos State Government, through the Multilingual Centre, has introduced a new Quiz Competition to the extra-curricular activities of Secondary Schools with the maiden edition of a French quiz competition tagged: “A LA CONNAISSANCE DE LAGOS” – meaning “How Much of Lagos Do You Know”, held at the Immaculate Heart Comprehensive School Hall, Maryland. 18 Schools drawn from the Six Education Districts competed at the Grand Finale of the maiden edition of the competition which saw Sito Gbetrome Senior Secondary School, Seme, Badagry winning the star prize, while Ikeja Senior High…

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The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved for the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) to run master’s degrees in Business Administration and Public Administration. This followed the release of an accreditation exercise carried out by the regulatory body for postgraduate programmes of the university. Ibrahim Sheme, NOUN’s Director, Media and Publicity, in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja, said both programmes had received full five-year accreditation. In a communication received by the NOUN Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdalla Adamu, dated 15th January, 2019, the NUC told the university it could now…

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Wale JAGUN The protest that rocked the Ikorodu main campus of the Lagos State Polytechnic on Monday (yesterday) was against the implementation of the Alignment of Nomenclature, it has been revealed.   Aggrieved staff members had laid siege on the campus chanting solidarity songs to stop the management from implementing the directive of the State Government.   The institution’s Deputy Registrar (Information), Mr Lanre Kuye, while speaking on phone with our reporter on Tuesday (today), on the alleged demotion and pay cut by the management of the institution, stated that…

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Wale JAGUN Hundreds of members of the academic and non-academic staff of the Lagos State Polytechnic on Monday, January 21,2019, laid siege on the institution’s Council Chamber at its Ikorodu main campus where the Rector, Mr Samuel Sogunro, and other management staff members were holding a meeting. THE IMPACT gathered that the staff members were protesting over alleged demotion and pay cut by the institution’s management. It was also gathered that the siege lasted for hours and prevented the Rector and others at the meeting from leaving the Chamber until…

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The Lagos State Government has released the timelines for admission into its16 Model Colleges and Upgraded Junior Secondary schools, just as the sale of forms for the Screening of Primary Six pupils into the Schools is scheduled to commence from Monday 14th January 2019 till Friday 26th April 2019. According to the Director, Lagos State Examinations Board, Mr. Olufemi Hassan the screening test for this year’s academic session will be in two parts – the Computer Based Test (CBT) and Paper Pencil Test (PPT). While noting that the registration form…

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The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) reached possible agreement on Monday toward resolving the ongoing lecturers’ strike. Sen. Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, said this after a reconciliatory meeting with ASUU in Abuja. Ngige said the meeting was fruitful as an agreement had been reached between the Federal Government and the striking university lecturers. According to him, the Federal Government has released N15.4 billion for the payment of the salary shortfalls, which was one of the major demands of the union. “On the…

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