NUC denounces list of fake professors in Nigerian universities

The National Universities Commission( NUC), has denounced the list of fake professors in some Nigerian universities being circulated in the media by some mischief makers which reporting was ascribed to a Lagos based electronic media as untrue and could not have emanated from the apex regulatory educational body without due consultation with their accredited universities. According to the Deputy Executive Secretary in-charge of its Academic Directorate, Dr. Noel Abiodun Saliu, such information should be taken as mischievous and unfounded, saying it could not have emanated from the National Universities Commission,…

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House of Reps. suspend proposed hike in federal varsities, unity schools’ fees

Reprieve came the way of financially squeezed parents yesterday, when the House of Representatives demanded that the status quo should be maintained on fees paid by students in federal universities and unity schools. The Green Chamber of the National Assembly yesterday asked universities to suspend the implementation of the recent increase in fees, which it said is capable of causing students to drop out of school. The House also asked the Federal Ministry of Education to immediately review the new fees regime in Federal Government Colleges and revert to the…

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Universities to get N30bn revitilisation funds – Minister, Ngige

…Workers to get N22.172bn as earned allowances The Federal Government says it will commence the disbursement of the N30 billion revitalisation funds to public universities very soon. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige disclosed this in Abuja, after a conciliation meeting between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU). A statement by the Deputy Director Press in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Charles Akpan, said the meeting was convened by the Minister to evaluate the level of implementation of the Memorandum of…

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