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                                   The University of Lagos has announced the shut down of the ‘Cold Room’, where lecturers reportedly harass students sexually. This was disclosed by Taiwo Oloyede, the Principal Assistant Registrar (Communication Unit) of the university. The ‘Cold Room’ was mentioned by a lecturer of the school, Boniface Igbeneghu, who was caught on video sexually harassing an undercover journalist who posed as an admission seeker.   Igbeneghu, in the BBC undercover documentary, described the secret place where lecturers meet to “touch students breast” at the staff club of the university.   “They call the place cold room,” he said. He then explained that female students must pay to have good grades. “The so called ‘Cold Room’ is a Functions Room that may have been abused because this is a deviation from the purpose for which it was created (meetings, s...

The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Lagos State University (LASU) chapter, Isaac Oyewunmi, has denied the corruption allegation levelled against him by the authorities of the school. The Governing Council of the institution sacked Oyewunmi alongside his deputy, Adebowale Adeyemi, for various alleged fraudulent activities on Friday . He was accused of demanding N50,000 from 2003 modular year students of Political Science Education, who were poised to process their results while Adeyemi-Suenu was accused of “unilaterally changing the status of students earlier asked to withdraw from the university from ‘withdraw’ to ‘good standing.” Reacting to the incident, Oyewunmi blamed his predicament on “political moves.” “All the allegations are false. I am not guilty although right now I have been asked to step aside while the union (ASUU) deals with it. The secretary is in the best position to react,” he told Premium Times. “I don’t want to say much but we...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it has agreed to consider the federal government’s offer and suspend their strike. This great news comes after 12 hours, 30 minutes of a closed door meeting between ASUU and a government delegation in Abuja which started 1:38pm on Thursday, September 7 and ended 2:15 a.m. on Friday, September 8. According to Premium Times, the leadership of ASUU, however, said though it accepted the proposal presented by the government, it will take the proposal to its members and get back to the government in a week. The national president of ASUU, Biodun Ogunyemi, told journalists after the meeting that the union will come back after one week to take its final decisions. He said: “Now we have some concrete proposal that we will take back to our members for consideration.” Adamu Adamu, the minister of education, said ASUU’s demands have been addressed and the union will get back to the government in a week after consulting with its prin...

Dr Fabian Benjamin, the head of media and information of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has announced that the Direct Entry e-Registration portal will be closed on September 15. This was announced on Friday, September 8, in an interview with newsmen in Abuja. He was also quoted as saying that there might be no postponement of the deadline. According to NAN, Dr Benjamin also advised JAMB candidates to re-upload their ‘O’ level results in the new portal as the previous portal did not allow for the capturing of candidates level of grades. He added that candidates should use the approved Computer Based Test (CBT) Centres for the exercise. Interestingly, the new portal has provided a platform for the detailed category of the West African Examination Result (WAEC) of candidates for proper placement. He said: “The first platform that was used for the exercise does not create room for the capturing of the levels of grade such as C4, C5, C6, B1, B2, B3 and ...

The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, on Wednesday disclosed that his child is also affected by the current ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Ngige revealed this when he spoke with state house correspondents after the Federal Executive Council meeting. He said, “I have my child at home as we speak. Government is leaving no stone unturned to make sure that we reach a conclusive agreement with ASUU so that they can go back to classroom.” The minister also said,  “Students who are supposed to take their exams and promotional exams have been forced by circumstances beyond their control to stay at home”

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, was recently criticized by Nigerians after they fixed minimum cut off marks for admissions into universities in Nigeria at 120, polytechnics and colleges of education at 100, while that of innovative enterprising institutes at 110. Now Institutions are, however, at liberty to raise their cut off marks for admission above the minimum set by JAMB and they sure did. The Senate and management of tertiary institutions in Nigeria have sent their cut-off marks for admissions to JAMB and universities like Unilag, University of Ibadan, Uniben amongst others fixed their marks at 200. See the full list, shared by Premium Times, below. S/N INSTITUTION Cut Off 1 AFE BABALOLA UNIVERSITY, ADO-EKITI, EKITI STATE 180 2 COVENANT UNIVERSITY, CANAAN LAND, OTA, OGUN STATE 180 3 ODUDUWA UNIVERSITY, IPETUMODU, OSUN STATE 180 4 PAN-ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY, AHMED ONIBUDO STREET, VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS STATE 180 5 VERITAS UNIVERSITY, ABUJA, FCT ...

University of Ilorin has emerged as 2017 university of first choice among students. In 2017 the University of Ilorin has the highest number of applications with 104,038 student-applicants. Students seeking admission considered the academic stability, popularity, affordability, available facilities and quality of lecturers of the institutions before making a choice. In a new report by the Economic Intelligence magazine from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) the University of Ilorin, Kwara state, has emerged the 2017 university of first choice among student-applicants. Nigeria’s foremost citadel of learning, University of Ilorin has the highest applications with 104,038 student-applicants. This is followed by 17 other institutions from 148 officially recognised universities in Nigeria drawn from the federal, state and private institutions, the Economic Confidential reports. The figure represents almost about 10% of the 1,212,818 total applicants seeking adm...

The University of Lagos online registration for the Post-UTME Screening Exercise for Admission into ALL COURSES/PROGRAMMES for the 2017/2018 Academic Year will commence from 31st August – 15thSeptember, 2017. ELIGIBLE CANDIDATES Candidates who made University of Lagos their first choice in the 2017/2018 UTME and scored 200 and above are eligible for screening. In addition, candidates must possess five (5) credit passes at one sitting in relevant O/level subjects including EnglishLanguage and Mathematics. Candidates,who will not be sixteen (16) years of age by 31st October, 2017 are not eligible and need not apply. Candidates who do not participate in the Post-UTME Screening will not be considered for admission. SCREENING FEE – N2,000 REGISTRATION PROCEDURE: Eligible candidates should log on to University of Lagos website (CLICK HERE) Then, take the following steps: -Click on Admissions -Click on Post-UTME Application -Login with UTME number as username and surname i...

University teachers have presented six new conditions for calling off their two-week old strike. But the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, yesterday pleaded with the lecturers to embrace peace for the sake of innocent students. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) is to discuss today the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and chart the way forward. Some of the options include: Bringing back ASUU to the negotiation table; Allowing the Wale Babalakin Panel to conclude its assignment; Suing ASUU to either the Industrial Arbitration Panel (IAP) or the National Industrial Court (NIC); and Referring all issues to the Ministry of Labour and Employment, in line with the Trade Dispute law. According to a source, who spoke in confidence with our correspondent, the six conditions were not part of the previous demands referred to the Babalakin Committee for arbitration. The new conditions are that: The Federal Government should immediatel...

Facebook user, Nolly Lee, shared a post on his page yesterday about an assistant lecturer of the Ebonyi state University who he claims is currently facing a panel in the school for sexual victimization of female students, bribery, and other illicit acts. Nolly, who is a former student of the school, asked his fellow alumni to state whether or not they want the lecturer to be sacked. Female students of the school came to the comment section to narrate their experiences with him and how he victimized them for not sleeping with them or paying a bribe. Even male students came out to accuse the lecturer of victimizing their girlfriends. Read the post and their comments below

Ex presidential aide and popular Nigerian writer, Reuben Abati has reacted to the controversial reduction of cut-off marks for Nigerian tertiary institution’s admission processes. Reuben Abati I have followed with keen interest the controversy over the announcement of cut-off marks for Nigeria’s admission processes for the 2017/2018 session, with many commentators and the general public insisting that it is unwise, insensitive and retrogressive, to reduce the cut off mark for admissions into our tertiary institutions: 120 for universities, 100 for polytechnics and monotechnics, and a tentative 110 for Innovative Enterprise Institutions (IEIs). Whereas the complaint has been that there is a dumbing down and lowering of standards, which is of course an obvious reaction, I argue that there is need for a better understanding of the context in which the decision was taken in the hope that this would shed some light on this controversial matter. I write as a reporter and as a stakehol...