About 17 months after the substantive Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Abubakar Raheed, a professor, resigned from office, President Bola Tinubu on Friday announced a replacement. In a statement issued by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, a copy of which PREMIUM TIMES obtained, the new NUC helmsman … Read more
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETTFund) said it would from January 2025 halt its foreign scholarship funding for Nigerian academics under the TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff (TSAS) scheme. The Fund disclosed the decision on Thursday in a statement by its spokesperson, Abdulmumin Oniyangi. Mr Oniyangi noted that the suspension is in response to the … Read more
President Bola Tinubu has directed the Federal Ministry of Education to formulate modalities for mobilising graduates of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) to participate in the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC). Mr Tinubu disclosed this at the 13th Convocation Ceremony of the university in Abuja at the weekend. In 2018, former President Muhammadu … Read more
Fresh facts have emerged on how the management of the National Universities Commission (NUC) appears to have ignored the retirement notice submitted by the Director of Private Universities Establishment, Constance Goddy-Nnadi. PREMIUM TIMES earlier reported that Mrs Goddy-Nnady rejected the agency’s directive to retire and that she chose to quit the service in July instead. … Read more
More universities have reacted to the viral report that claims that the National Universities Commission (NUC) uncovered more than 100 fake professors in Nigerian universities. The authorities at Bayero University Kano (BUK) and Babcock University, Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State, in separate statements, denied the list of ‘fake’ professors being circulated on social media in the country. … Read more
While Nigerians joined Christians across the world to mark Christmas on 25 December 2023, the Nigerian government chose the day to, once again, expose some tertiary institutions it described as illegal, and advised students against patronising them. Some of these illegal institutions include the University of Accountancy and Management Studies, operating anywhere in Nigeria; Christians … Read more
