Chidimma UCHEGBU The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has called for improved support of relevant stakeholders to improve on basic education delivery in the country. Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, made the call during the annual capacity-building workshop for directors of social mobilisation from the 36 SUBEBs and…
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Chidimma UCHEGBU President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the sum of N683,429,268 billion as the 2024 Intervention Funds for public tertiary education institutions in the country. The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, disclosed this on Friday, during the Fund’s Strategic planning meeting with heads of…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Bauchi State government has solicited support from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund), for its state-owned institutions to train technical manpower in agriculture, oil and gas and other fields critical to national development. Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, who made the appeal during a visit to TETFund…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The National Universities Commission (NUC) has said that the list of 100 fake professors circulating on the social media, and also published by some national dailies and television stations, is fake. It said the purported list was not released by the Commission. The social media and some national…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Federal government has said that civil servants found to have colluded with unscrupulous elements to foster the presence of illegal universities and award of fraudulent degrees to secure graduate jobs in Nigeria, will be penalized. It said such penalties would, however, be administered in accordance with the…
Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu A lot has been said, and argued, about the recent document of the Catholic Church titled Fiducia Supplicans (Supplicating Trust) and the seeming approval it gave to non-liturgical blessing of persons in “irregular relationships” especially persons engaged in same-sex relationships. For me, however, none of the arguments, either…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), has sided with President Bola Tinubu in ordering the payment of salaries to civil servants who were denied for not being captured in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). COEASU President, Dr. Smart Olugbeko, made the commendation in…
Chidimma UCHEGBU Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, Kogi State, has commenced the process of admitting candidates into over 35 undergraduate programmes approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC) at the school. The university, in a statement by its Registrar, Mrs Olufunke Hudson, said also that it has released…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said there is no truth in claims that it has increased the registration fee for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) across the country. Speaking in a statement signed by JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor (PCA), Fabian Benjamin, the board said…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has called on the country’s budgeting agencies to separate the budget of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), from Nigeria’s annual budget to enable effective implementation. ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodoke, made the call at the TETFund Alliance for Innovative Research…