The Senate has intervened in the ongoing two-week warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), moving to prevent a full-scale shutdown of academic activities across Nigeria’s public universities. Members of the Senate Committees on Labour, and on Tertiary Institutions and TETFUND, met behind closed doors with ASUU’s national leadership at the National
The Vice Chancellor of Trinity University, Lagos, Professor Clement Kolawole, has called on the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to channel excess revenue generated from candidates applying for admission into tertiary institutions directly to Nigerian universities. Kolawole made the call in a statement released on Wednesday by the institution’s Principal Assistant Registrar, Michael Bamigbola.
A new report by the UK think tank Policy Exchange claims that many international students are using university education as a backdoor to live and work in the UK. The report calls for the scrapping of the graduate visa route for most students, saying the current system encourages migration rather than education. The graduate visa
The Federal Government has said that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is not on strike, contrary to recent media reports. Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, made this known in Abuja, saying that universities across Nigeria remain open and stable. He said the peaceful situation in schools is due to the government’s steady
On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, the House of Representatives passed a bill for a second reading to amend the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) Act, which would include Inter-University Centres as beneficiaries. The bill, titled “A Bill for an Act to Amend the Tertiary Education Trust Fund Act, No.16, 2011, to Include Inter-University Centres as
