The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has once again, insisted that it will never extend the deadline for candidates seeking to write the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry examinations into Nigerian universities.
This was disclosed on Saturday by JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, during a tour of some computer-based test centres in Abuja designated to conduct the forthcoming examinations.
“Registration is going on well except for some of these schools. The deadline for the UTME will not be extended,” he said.
The JAMB boss reminded parents and admission seekers that the sale of 2023 UTME commenced on 14th January, 2023, and will close on Tuesday, 14th February, 2023, and they should take advantage of the remaining window to purchase the forms.
Chrisland International High School, Opebi Branch, Lagos, has been dragged into public view again following the reported demise of a 12-year-old student, Whitney Adeniran, during inter-house sports activities.
Michael Adeniran, the father of the deceased, in posts making the rounds on social media platforms on Saturday night, noted that his daughter died on Thursday at the Agege Stadium, which the school used for its sporting activities.
Adeniran claimed his daughter was hale and hearty when the school picked her up for the activities, saying the school had not said anything regarding the incident.
He therefore sought the intervention of the Lagos State Government as well as security agencies to investigate the incident and ensure justice is served.
“To the biggest shock of my life by 1 pm in the afternoon, I got a call from my wife that she was informed that our daughter slumped at the inter-house sport and she was rushed to the clinic”, he said.
“My wife was at the venue even before the event started. She was never informed or called until they have conveyed our child out of the venue before they informed her. On arrival of my wife at the health center where they took my daughter. my daughter was lying dead with her lips black and her tongue black.
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“My wife called me urgently, I left my office to the place and found my 12-year-old daughter lying dead on the ground. I asked questions about what happened to my daughter and the school authority could not get me any information as to what happened to my child in their care.
“I gave Chrisland school a healthy vibrant young girl what Chrisland returned to me is a dead child. My entire family is in deep sorrow but the school Authority claimed they know nothing about my daughter’s death and all they know is that my daughter slumped and died.
“My question is what happened to my daughter at Agege stadium? As a father, I demand answers from Chrisland International High School. I am in deep pain and sorrow right now. If you are a father you will understand my pain. My daughter is highly loved by us. We cherished her existence and we can never allow an institution to gloss over the death of our daughter.
“Since we started asking this question. The school has been asking us to back down from the autopsy and I know they know their way into the system. I am calling on the pathology department of @lasuth to please be honest with their result. Lagos State government, Nigerian Government, please intervene”, Adeniran concluded.
As of the time of filing this report, no official statement had been released by either the school, the state government or security agencies.
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Chrisland International High School first came into public limelight following an alleged rape of one of its female pupils during a trip to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) last year.
Videos later emerged in social media of the students engaging in s3xual activities at their hotel in Dubai, where the school had taken them on a trip.
President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday charged university administrators that would be engaged with different support services in the 2023 general elections to uphold a high degree of professionalism.
Speaking at the weekend at the 36/37 combined convocation of Bayero University Kano, Buhari insisted that his administration would provide a level playing field for the smooth implementation of the electoral process in Nigeria.
He said, “I urge those who’ll be involved in the elections to play their roles with the usual dignity and transparency for which our academics are very well known.
“There’s no doubt that the participation of academics and other staff of universities in our country’s general elections over the years has lent more credibility and respectability to Nigeria’s democratic processes.”
The president, represented by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, also called on all Nigerians to work for the success of the elections to help move Nigeria forward.
The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has disclosed that over 1.16 million tertiary institutions admission seekers have so far registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).
Professor Oloyede stated this on Saturday while monitoring some CBT centres in Abuja.
He said the Board would not extend deadline for the 2023 Unified UTME registration, while warning centers against extortion of candidates.
The sale of 2023 UTME commenced on Saturday,14th January, 2023, and close on Tuesday, 14th February, 2023
The JAMB Registrar said, “Registration is going on well except some of these schools. UTME is not a school based examination, it’s individual candidates and you can see what that school, Stella Maris is doing, collecting N30,000 from candidates in the name of JAMB and then end up missing up the telephone number of the candidates.”
He said once they keep the telephone number of candidates, “it is unlikely that the candidates when we are contacting them if we want to make a change in their timetable, you send text to them and it will not get to them after they have graduated from the school and want to do change of course they don’t have access to it.
“That is a way of extorting the parents and we will take adequate steps to make sure that we stop that. One of the reasons is that we will tell every CBT center to stop doing bulk purchase of pin and bulk registration so if a center sales more than one pin to a source or collect money for more than one pin from a source then we will sanction such center.”
He urged candidates to report cases of extortion, saying that there is a code for candidates to reach the board when they come across any case of extortion, while promising there will be a reward for such act
The debilitating effects of the Naira swap policy enacted by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has elicited a scathing critique from the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).
Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, in a statement issued on Friday, slammed the CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele, for ambushing Nigerians with the policy.
“Nigerians are gasping for breath under the suffocating atmosphere created by the ruling class is to state the obvious,” he stated.
The ASUU president added that in order to adequately assess the extent of the harm caused by the crisis brought on by the country’s currency redesign, developmental economists would need to make extremely serious efforts.
“The ambush tactic of Godwin Emefiele to ‘eliminate cash’ was applied in India in 2016 with unsalutary consequences. So, ASUU commends the Supreme Court for siding with the suffering Nigerians, whose miserable lives would have been compounded by Emefiele’s policy if they are not sent to their early graves by it.
“In the same way government’s explanation on non-circulation of the redesigned currency is meaningless, no attempt to rationalise non-accessibility of petroleum products is tenable. This outgoing government raised Nigerians’ hope of fixing the country’s refineries when it was coming to power in 2015.
“Eight years down the line, it has been giving one excuse after another; allowing a free rein to the oil subsidy scammers! Nigerians know the truth; they know the local refineries can work if the core leadership of the ruling class is willing to commit class suicide. But it’s a poisonous tablet none is willing to swallow.”
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Meanwhile, the National Council of States declared its support for the naira redesign policy.
Abubakar Malami, Nigeria’s attorney-general, said this while addressing journalists at the end of the council’s meeting at the State House, Abuja, on Friday.
NUC Deputy executive secretary (administration), Chris Maiyaki, said the directive takes effect from Wednesday, February 22, 2023.
Maiyaki noted that the directive was based on a directive from Nigeria’s education minister Adamu Adamu.
“As Vice-Chancellors of all Universities and Director/Chief Executive of Inter-University Centres are quite aware the 2023 General Elections have been scheduled to hold on Saturday February 25, 2023, for the Presidential and National Assembly, and Saturday March 11, 2023 for Gubernatorial and State Assembly, respectively.
“In view of the foregoing and concerns expressed on the security of staff, students and properties of the our respective institutions, the Honourable Minister of Education, Mal. Adama Adamu has following extensive consultations with the relevant security agencies, directed that all Universities and Inter-University Centres be shut down and academic activities be suspended between 22 February and 14th March, 2023.”
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The suspension of academic activities comes days after the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) asked President Muhammadu Buhari to shut down all tertiary institutions until after the February 25 and March 11 elections.
NANS vice-president Akinteye Babatunde stressed that the shutdown would allow students to obtain their Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs).
“The office of the NANS vice president (external affairs) calls on the federal government of Nigeria to immediately close all tertiary institutions temporarily to afford students the opportunity to collect their PVCs from their local government Areas and vote in the forthcoming elections,” Babatunde said.
NUC Deputy executive secretary (administration), Chris Maiyaki, said the directive takes effect from Wednesday, February 22, 2023.
Maiyaki noted that the directive was based on a directive from Nigeria’s education minister Adamu Adamu.
“As Vice-Chancellors of all Universities and Director/Chief Executive of Inter-University Centres are quite aware the 2023 General Elections have been scheduled to hold on Saturday February 25, 2023, for the Presidential and National Assembly, and Saturday March 11, 2023 for Gubernatorial and State Assembly, respectively.
“In view of the foregoing and concerns expressed on the security of staff, students and properties of the our respective institutions, the Honourable Minister of Education, Mal. Adama Adamu has following extensive consultations with the relevant security agencies, directed that all Universities and Inter-University Centres be shut down and academic activities be suspended between 22 February and 14th March, 2023.”
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The suspension of academic activities comes days after the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) asked President Muhammadu Buhari to shut down all tertiary institutions until after the February 25 and March 11 elections.
NANS vice-president Akinteye Babatunde stressed that the shutdown would allow students to obtain their Permanent Voters’ Cards (PVCs).
“The office of the NANS vice president (external affairs) calls on the federal government of Nigeria to immediately close all tertiary institutions temporarily to afford students the opportunity to collect their PVCs from their local government Areas and vote in the forthcoming elections,” Babatunde said.
A 300-level student of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) is trending online after he proposed marriage to his girlfriend in front of a packed class.
In a video showing the adorable moment that’s currently making the rounds, the young man went down on his knee in front of his coursemates and lecturer and proposed to his lover in the middle of a lecture.
He had planned the romantic proposal with some of his classmates and hired a saxophonist to serenade his lover with nice tunes as he popped the question.
While he was on his knee with a ring in his hand, his friends were seen on one side of the lecture hall carrying banners that read, “Will you marry me?”
The girlfriend, who appeared completely astonished, was beaming from ear to ear as she stretched her finger to her man so he could place the ring on it.
In other news, a yet-to-be identified Nigerian lady could barely contain her joy and broke down in tears after receiving mind blowing gifts on her birthday.
A trending clip shows the birthday celebrant, who was over the moon, posing with her birthday gifts in an apartment.
She received the whooping sum of N3 million, two brand new Keke Napeps, iPhone 14 Pro Max, luxury wigs, wrist watch, diamond, and to crown it all, she also received a money bouquet and money tower.
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And truly, the young lady would remember this year’s birthday for a long time, as she couldn’t help but burst into tears at the thoughtfulness and generosity of her man
FixPolitics noted this would enable undergraduates to travel back to places of residence to exercise their franchise in the February 25 presidential elections.
“The same should apply to the subsequent Governorship and House of Assembly elections scheduled for March 11, 2023,” its statement on Friday reads.
Tertiary institutions are under the supervision of the National Universities Commission, NUC, the National Board for Technical Education, NABTEB, and the National Commission for Colleges of Education, NCCE.
FixPolitics said the Independent National Electoral Commission’s registration exercise in 2022 took place during the prolonged ASUU strike which means the majority of students must have registered.
The group recalled INEC Chairman Mahmood Yakubu’s announcement that students account for 40 percent of the 9,518,188 newly registered voters.
Government should be seen to be doing everything necessary to encourage all eligible citizens to come out and vote on election days, the statement added.
Describing the 2023 election as a defining one, it said the outcome will either produce leaders who have the character, competence and capacity or return “the same old politicians who contributed to bringing Nigeria to its present hobbled state”.
The group commended INEC for twice extending the allotted time to give more opportunities for the collection of Permanent Voter Cards, PVCs.
“It is now incumbent on the federal government to take executive action to ensure that students who have collected their PVCs are not denied the right to vote.”
FixPolitics added that the urgency of the moment demands patriotic and decisive action, reminding President Buhari of his vow to leave behind a legacy of free and fair elections.
Launched in February 2020, the group is a citizens-led research-based movement designed to change and innovate politics in Nigeria and Africa.
The Acting Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC Christy Uba, has handed over to the newly appointed substantive Director General, Major Gen S. Ibrahim.
The ceremony was held at the NYSC NDHQ, Yakubu Gowon House in, Maitama, Abuja on Monday.
Mrs Uba assumed the leadership of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), taking over from the former DG, Brig.-Gen. Muhammad Fadah who President Muhammadu Buhari sacked.
Uba is the Director of Information and Communications Technology and the most senior directorate of the Corps at the time of Fadah’s sack.
President Buhari appointed Ibrahim as a substantive replacement for Fadah
He has now been sworn in as the 22nd DG of the Scheme.
Fadah assumed duty as the 20th head on May 18, 2022, succeeding Maj.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim
The Governor who spoke at the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) Secretariat in Yola where he addressed CAN officials and church leaders from across the state, stressed that he could not condone PTA levies when his government is running a free education scheme.
He said, “Education is free here. I can’t tolerate a situation now where PTAs fix charges. We came to relieve parents of the burden of paying fees and we don’t want anything that sounds like fees by some other name.”
The Governor said he was taking steps to stop the indiscriminate charging of levies under whatever guise because it runs contrary to his free education programme.
Governor Ahmadu Fintiri who was at the CAN Secretariat for interaction with the CAN officials and other Christian leaders, said his measures to assuring security for all have improved religious harmony, among other things.
Speaking earlier during the event, the state chairman of CAN, Bishop Dami Mamza, said Christians in the state were committed to the unity and development of the state.
Mamza, also the Catholic Bishop of Yola, said, “CAN has the vision of a just and prosperous state where everyone will enjoy equity. We seek the building of a better Adamawa State for the good of all.”
The Taliban announced a ban on female students from taking university entrance exams in Afghanistan for the 2023 school year, according to the letter sent to private universities and higher education institutions on Saturday.
The note comes despite weeks of condemnation and lobbying by the international community for a reversal of measures restricting women’s freedoms, including two back-to-back visits this month by several senior U.N. officials. It also bodes ill for hopes that the Taliban could take steps to reverse their edicts anytime soon.
The Taliban barred women from private and public universities last month. The higher education minister in the Taliban-run government, Nida Mohammed Nadim, has maintained that the ban is necessary to prevent the mixing of genders in universities — and because he believes some subjects being taught violate Islamic principles.
Work was underway to fix these issues, and universities would reopen for women once they were resolved, he had said in a T.V. interview.
The Taliban have made similar promises about girls’ middle and high school access, saying classes would resume for them once “technical issues” around uniforms and transport were sorted out. But girls remain shut out of classrooms beyond sixth grade.
Higher Education Ministry spokesperson Ziaullah Hashmi said Saturday that a letter reminding private universities not to allow women to take entrance exams was sent out. He gave no further details.
A copy of the letter, shared with The Associated Press (A.P.), warned that women could not take the “entry test for bachelor, master and doctorate levels” and that if any university disobeys the edict, “legal action will be taken against the violator.”
The letter was signed by Mohammad Salim Afghan, the government official overseeing student affairs at private universities.
Entrance exams start on Sunday in some provinces, while elsewhere in Afghanistan, they begin on Feb. 27. Universities across Afghanistan follow a different term timetable due to seasonal differences.
Mohammed Karim Nasari, the spokesperson for the private universities union, said last month that dozens of private universities risk closure because of the ban.
Afghanistan has 140 private universities across 24 provinces, with around 200,000 students. Out of those, some 60,000 to 70,000 are women. The universities employ about 25,000 people.
Earlier this week, U.N. humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths and leaders of two major international aid organizations visited Afghanistan, following last week’s visit by a delegation led by the U.N.’s highest-ranking woman, U.N. Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed. The visits had the same aim — to try and reverse the Taliban’s crackdown on women and girls, including their ban on Afghan women working for national and global humanitarian organizations
The nationwide fuel crisis has taken its toll on students and staff of the University of Ilorin as they are confronted with transportation challenges to and from the main campus.
Reacting to the development in a statement on Wednesday by Kunle Akogun, the Director, Corporate Affairs, of the institution, the management expressed pain over the transportation hardship the students and staff go through daily.
The statement appealed to all for continuous understanding, explaining that the factors responsible for the present situation are not peculiar to the University of Ilorin.
“This issue of inadequate transportation leaves many stranded every morning and evening during peak hours.
“Even the injection of more buses to the campus route has not achieved any tangible result as the nationwide fuel scarcity has compounded the situation, thereby rubbishing such intervention,” the statement explained.
As part of measures to mitigate the effect of the unfortunate situation on the students especially, “the management has instructed the adjustment of lecture timetable to make it more flexible.
“Also, we have renewed our zoom licenses to activate the virtual lecture option recently approved by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Wahab Egbewole,” the statement added.
A video has captured the shocking moment officials of the Oru-Ijebu police division manhandled a male student of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, during an arrest on Thursday. Jan 12.
The reason for the arrest remains unknown but the mode of arrest raised concerns in multiple threads shared by students on Twitter. Watch Clips Here
In a call for help, a Twitter user @investor_jnr wrote, “this is what OOU students face in the hands of Oru, Ago-iwoye and Awa police everytime!! The incident in this video happened just yesterday!
They keep treating students like animals! Kindly do something pls🙏the policemen in these video are from Oru-ijebu division sir.” Watch Clips Here
The Management of The Polytechnic, Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, has suspended semester examination billed to commence on Monday.
The suspension followed a protest by students of the institution, the Registrar of the school, Modupe Fawale said in a statement on Monday.
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Aggrieved students of the institution had blocked the school gate and the Sango-Poly junction, consequently causing gridlock in the entire axis.
However, Fawale described the protest as ill-motivated and politically inclined, noting that the Students’ Union body on campus did not file any formal complaint before the Management concerning fee hike.
“Protesting on a day that they should be sober and commence their examination which is a major academic activities leading to the award of their diploma is ill-advised, politically motivated and therefore of no reasonable value to the students and indeed to the development of education,” the Management said announcing a ban on Students’ Union activities on the campus.
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But in a follow-up statement hours after, the Management lifted the ban but insisted that examinations remained suspended.
“The Management will be holding meetings with the leadership of the students to address their perceived grievances.
“The first-semester examination scheduled to commence today however remained postponed. A new date for the commencement of the examination will be announced to the students through appropriate channels,” the Management added.
Aggrieved students of Taraba State University in Jalingo, the state capital, took to the streets on Monday to protest as unpaid lecturers boycotted the school’s semester examinations billed to commence today.
The students were supposed to start their examination today but the inability of the lecturers to get paid impeded the process.
In protest, the students blocked all roads leading to the institution, hindering vehicular movement around the axis. They also burnt tyres and chanted solidarity songs.
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The students later blocked the Jalingo-Wukari Expressroad hindering vehicular movement. Business activities were also brought to a halt.
The students’ leader at the university, Salisu Waziri told Channels Television that the demonstration is a solidarity protest with lecturers on the campus who have not been paid 10 months’ salaries.
“We are supposed to start our first semester’s examinations today but on getting to the venue of the exams, we were told that the exams will not hold because our lecturers have been owed salaries for 10 months,” he said.
Waziri called on the school authorities and the state government to pay the emoluments of the lecturers for examinations to hold.
“These lecturers have children, they have families to take care of. Some of our students are almost 30 years and the more they continue to stay in school, they cannot go for NYSC which has an age limit.
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“This strike is a solidarity strike with our lecturers. We call on the government and the school management to ensure our lecturers are paid their 10 months’ salaries so that we can be taught and our exams take place,” he said.
As of the time of filing this report, no authority of the institution or the state government have commented on the protest.
The protest is coming months after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) called off its eight-month strike for unpaid allowances, amongst other demands in October 2022 following a judgement by the National Industrial Court.
British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said on Wednesday that Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers banning women from university was a “grave step backwards” and warned that “the world is watching”.
“The women of Afghanistan have so much to offer. Denying them access to university is a grave step backwards,” the UK leader tweeted, adding: “We will judge the Taliban by their actions”.
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Carlo Ancelotti’s team successfully added to their four cups from 2014 to 2018, and their triumph meant European teams have won the past 10 editions of the tournament.
New York’s prestigious Juilliard performing arts school, whose alumni include actor Adam Driver and musician Jon Batiste, has placed a professor of music composition on leave following allegations of sexual misconduct.
Robert Beaser, 68, was put on leave last Friday, the school’s vice president of public affairs, Rosalie Contreras, told AFP Tuesday.
The move came the same day some 500 musicians and classical music leaders signed an open letter calling for action over his alleged “decades-long abuse of women and power.”
Sexual misconduct allegations against Beaser, who has been a member of the Juilliard faculty since 1993, were published in the German-based classical music magazine VAN on December 12.
The allegations range from repeated sexual advances to sexual relationships with students between the late 1990s and 2000s.
The report cites a former student who described one instance “in which Beaser offered her a promising career opportunity before attempting to obtain sexual favors in return.”
“What will you do for me?” she said Beaser asked.
Contreras said that Juilliard had launched investigations into Beaser in the late 1990s and again in 2017-18.
“Allegations that were previously reported to The Juilliard School were handled at the time, based on the information that was provided,” she said.
She said that an investigation into the new allegations detailed in VAN magazine has been opened.
“Sexual discrimination and sexual harassment have no place in our school community. We take all such allegations extremely seriously,” said Contreras.
Juilliard, based in Manhattan, is widely considered to be one of the most illustrious drama, music and dance schools in the world.
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Notable alumni include Robin Williams, Barry Manilow, Jessica Chastain and Yo-Yo Ma.
Juilliard’s provost, Adam Meyer, told faculty members in a letter Friday that “in light of the ongoing investigation, and following discussions with Bob earlier this afternoon, we want to notify you that Bob will step away from his teaching duties and other faculty responsibilities while the investigation is being conducted.”
He added that the investigation would be conducted “in a confidential manner.”
“We want to assure you that our processes and procedures provide for fair and impartial treatment of all involved, and we are committed to our work to resolve this matter,” he wrote.
Beaser, who chaired the composition department from 1994 to 2018, told The Washington Post on Sunday that he was “more than willing to participate in Juilliard’s outside investigation in order to protect and defend my reputation.”
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Adeniran claimed his daughter was hale and hearty when the school picked her up for the activities, saying the school had not said anything regarding the incident.
Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers have banned university education for women nationwide, provoking condemnation from the United States and the United Nations over another assault on human rights.
Despite promising a softer rule when they seized power last year, the Taliban have ratcheted up restrictions on all aspects of women’s lives, ignoring international outrage.
“You all are informed to immediately implement the mentioned order of suspending education of females until further notice,” Minister for Higher Education Neda Mohammad Nadeem said in a letter issued to all government and private universities.
The spokesman for the ministry, Ziaullah Hashimi, who tweeted the letter, confirmed the order in a text message to AFP.
Washington condemned the decision “in the strongest terms.”
“The Taliban cannot expect to be a legitimate member of the international community until they respect the rights of all in Afghanistan. This decision will come with consequences for the Taliban,” Secretary of State Antony Blinken said in a statement.
“No country can thrive when half of its population is held back.”
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was “deeply alarmed” by the ban, his spokesman said Tuesday.
“The secretary-general reiterates that the denial of education not only violates the equal rights of women and girls, but will have a devastating impact on the country’s future,” Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.
The ban on higher education comes less than three months after thousands of girls and women sat for university entrance exams across the country, with many aspiring to choose teaching and medicine as future careers.
The universities are currently on winter break and due to reopen in March.
After the takeover of the country by the Taliban, universities were forced to implement new rules including gender-segregated classrooms and entrances, while women were only permitted to be taught by women professors or old men.
Most teenage girls across the country have already been banned from secondary school education, severely limiting university intake.
Journalism student Madina, who wanted only her first name published, struggled to comprehend the weight of Tuesday’s order.
“I have nothing to say. Not only me but all my friends have no words to express our feelings,” the 18-year-old told AFP in Kabul.
“Everyone is thinking about the unknown future ahead of them. They buried our dreams.”
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The country was returning to “dark days”, added medicine student Rhea in the capital, who asked that her name be changed.
“When we were hoping to make progress, they are removing us from society,” the 26-year-old said.
– ‘A fundamental human right’ – The Taliban adheres to an austere version of Islam, with the movement’s supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada and his inner circle of Afghan clerics against modern education, especially for girls and women.
But they are at odds with many officials in Kabul and among their rank and file, who had hoped girls would be allowed to continue learning following the takeover.
“There are serious differences in the Taliban ranks on girls’ education, and the latest decision will increase these differences,” a Taliban commander based in northwest Pakistan told AFP on condition of anonymity.
In a cruel U-turn, the Taliban in March blocked girls from returning to secondary schools on the morning they were supposed to reopen.
Several Taliban officials say the secondary education ban is only temporary, but they have also wheeled out a litany of excuses for the closure — from a lack of funds to the time needed to remodel the syllabus along Islamic lines.
Since the ban, many teenage girls have been married off early — often to much older men of their father’s choice.
Several families interviewed by AFP last month said that, coupled with economic pressure, the school ban meant that securing their daughters’ future through marriage was better than them sitting idle at home.
– International pressure – Women have also been pushed out of many government jobs — or are being paid a slashed salary to stay at home. They are also barred from travelling without a male relative and must cover up outside of the home, ideally with a burqa.
In November, they were prohibited from going to parks, funfairs, gyms and public baths.
The international community has made the right to education for all women a sticking point in negotiations over aid and recognition of the Taliban regime.
“The international community has not and will not forget Afghan women and girls,” the UN Security Council said in a statement in September.
However, Pakistan, Afghanistan’s neighbour, said Tuesday that engagement with the Taliban was still the best path forward.
“I’m disappointed by the decision that was taken today,” Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said on a visit to Washington.
But he said: “I still think the easiest path to our goal — despite having a lot of setbacks when it comes to women’s education and other things — is through Kabul and through the interim government.”
In the 20 years between the Taliban’s two reigns, girls were allowed to go to school and women were able to seek employment in all sectors, though the country remained socially conservative.
The authorities have also returned to public floggings and executions of men and women in recent weeks as they implement an extreme interpretation of Islamic sharia law.
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The president, represented by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, also called on all Nigerians to work for the success of the elections to help…
Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, yesterday, opted to continue their nationwide protest, instead of embarking on another round of industrial action over their eight-months’ salaries being withheld by the Federal Government.
The decision was arrived at after a lengthy National Executive Council, NEC, meeting in Calabar, Cross River State. A source told Vanguard that the meeting also agreed to continue to engage stakeholders on the way out of the current face-off between the union and the government.
“The National President will officially come out with the communique of the meeting. But we considered reports from branches regarding our nationwide protests and we are glad with what we got. It was agreed that the protests should continue, we need to let Nigerian people see that we have really given the government a long rope.
“Some prominent Nigerians and different groups have been on the matter. Seeking the way out, we also want to give the people more time to intervene too. At least at the end of the day, if we are pushed to the wall, whatever we decide to do, everybody will see that we have tired and endured enough,” the source said.
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A number of personalities, including the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr. Femi Gbajabiamila, intervened and also, the National Industrial Court of Nigeria in Abuja gave an order for the union to shelve the strike before it would continue to entertain the matter before it.
Recall that when the union called off its strike on October 14, after eight months, the government only paid the lecturers half salary for October and paid them full salary in November.
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Students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, have protested the 100 percent hike in their school fees.
Noble Reporters Media confirmed that the university administration had published a memo on Thursday specifying categories of fees to be paid by its students.
The memo indicated that fresh students across the faculties in the university are to pay a consolidated fee of N114,650 – N120,650, while older students are expected to pay between N85,000 – N95,000.
Noble Reporters Media gathered that before the new development, old students in the institution paid a fee of N40,000, and new students N83,000.
Speaking to Noble Reporters’ known Media on the development, a member of the Student Union Government, SUG, who did not want his name mentioned, said the students are uncomfortable with the increase.
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“The students’ reaction is simple – we are not comfortable with the increment; even though the increment is inevitable, the amount they increased it to is too high. They doubled it, like a 105 percent increment, so it’s much.
“That is what we are agitating for – there should be a reduction. And compared to other federal universities, you would see that we pay higher unless we do not go on strike again. Unless we are going to take up the responsibility of settling ASUU and all that, we won’t be going on strike like other federal universities, then the amount is ok. Students are saying that if we will not be going on strike, the amount is ok,” he said.
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Lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities have received full salaries for the month of November 2022, Noble Reporters Media can confirm.
Our correspondent also gathered that the eight month arrears remained withheld by the Federal Government.
A senior member of the union at the Bayero University Kano made this known in an interview with our corespondent in Abuja on Wednesday.
“Some of our members have started receiving salaries and I can confirm to you that we received our full salaries for the month of November. However, the arrears are still withheld.”
Noble Reporters Media reports that the Federal Government refused to pay the striking lecturers for the eight months which the union embarked on strike.
The lecturers, in October 2022 were also paid pro-rata (half-pay) according to the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige.
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Lecturers across the country have been protesting against this decision by the Federal Government.
The National Executive Council of the union is expected to hold a crucial meeting in the coming days over the withheld salaries.
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Nnamani, who reacted to his expulsion in a letter addressed to the PDP NWC through his lawyer, Olusegun O. Jolaawo (SAN), insisted that the party leadership lacks the power to…
The police in Borno have arrested a female teacher simply identified as Aunty Zara for allegedly sexually assaulting a four-year-old pupil in Maiduguri.
The spokesman of the police command, ASP Sani Kamilu, confirmed the arrest on Saturday in Maiduguri.
Mr Kamilu said the suspect, a teacher at a private school in Maiduguri, had been apprehended last week, adding the command had commenced investigation into the case.
He said that upon completion of investigation, the case would be referred to the Directorate of Public Prosecution (DPP) for next line of action.
The victim’s father who reported the case to the police, Hassan Dala, said he noticed the victim’s urine was reddish in colour.
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“Initially, I presumed it to be a symptom of infection. I took her to the hospital, and they told us what the problem was.
“When the mother asked her, the victim told us what the teacher did to her.
“The victim said that the teacher cuddled, gave her breasts to suck and inserted a finger in her private part.
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A final-year student of the Federal Polytechnic, Oko has reportedly taken his own life after consuming a poisonous substance over a failed relationship.
A source said the incident happened on Friday at Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Orumba North Local Government Area of Anambra.
Noble Reporters Media gathered that the man who is a final Year student of the polytechnic was already doing his Industrial Attachment (IT), preparatory to graduation, when he was jilted by his lover.
A student of the institution, Iyke Orji who disclosed this described the deceased as one who was “full of energy and life, and an intelligent boy with close to distinction (First class)”.
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Orji further said: “He’s currently in his IT days, a student of Public Administration. He decided to stay in Oko for his one year industrial training, (but) instead of focusing on his training, he decided to search for true love.”
The account said that his girlfriend recently broke up with him, and the news devastated him, and on Friday, when he couldn’t endure it, he drank sniper insecticide and died.
Public relations officer of the institution, Mr Chijioke Ibeziakor was not available to react to the incident, as calls to his mobile phone were not attended to.
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The Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has accused the Federal Government of not being interested in funding public universities in the country.
It said that underfunding public universities in the country under the pretext that the government has no money was a deliberate attempt to introduce exorbitant school fees that the ordinary Nigerian cannot afford.
Chairperson of the branch, Ibrahim Inuwa, stated this at a press conference held at the ASUU Secretariat, ATBU, shortly after staging a peaceful protest on Tuesday.
Noble Reporters Media reports that the Union held a congress, after which they staged the protest from their secretariat and marched to the main ATBU gate and back to their starting point.
They sang solidarity songs and carried placards with various inscriptions such as: “ASUU calls for deployment of UTAS”, “ASUU rejects prorating of academics’ salaries”, “ASUU is more patriotic than FGN officials”, “Release withheld salaries of academics”, “We say no to privatization of public universities”, “IPPIS & Pro-rata payment to academics are diversions from our demands,” among others.
He said: “It has become conspicuously clear to the Union that Nigerian governments are not interested in the development of Nigerian public universities to global university best practice:
“What is obvious is the deliberate under-funding of the universities through the guise of no money, to subsequently introduce exorbitant school fees beyond the reach of the children of the masses, and ultimately privatize these universities to themselves.
“After suspending the 8-month-old strike due to a court order and interventions of well-meaning Nigerians, the government went so low as to withhold salaries of ASUU members and only paid pro-rata the October salary. The Union rejects the casualization of Nigerian academics.
“The Union assures Nigerians that it will never be a party to destroying the country. The Union will never support the introduction of exorbitant fees beyond the reach of the children of the Nigerian downtrodden; neither will it be a party to privatizing Nigerian public universities.”
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He added: “As a law-abiding union, ASUU deployed several diplomatic means to persuade the government to address the contentious issues in the public universities, but all fell on deaf ears. Thereafter, just like on other occasions, the Union was left with no choice but to declare a nationwide strike on the 14th of February 2022 to drive home its demands. For the avoidance of doubt, the issues that necessitated the strike are:
“While the union is struggling day and night to ensure that the government fulfils the agreement it willingly signed with the Union, the governments at State and Federal levels became politically obsessed with the establishment of public universities, even where it is evidently clear that the existing ones are grossly underfunded.
“More so, universities visitation panels, that statutorily afford Visitors of Universities (President/State governors) after every four years the opportunity to probe the management of the university operations in terms of finance, personnel, academic activities, and other matters were not conducted for over fifteen years: it took another ASUU strike in 2020 for the government to set up the visitation panels, but to date the white papers for the visitations are still being awaited.”
He appealed to well-meaning Nigerians to prevail on the government to, as a matter of urgency and national interest, resolve all outstanding issues with ASUU for the wellbeing of the Nigerian nation so that the country will take its rightful place in the globe, pointing out that “for the avoidance of doubts, we wish to state clearly that we shall continue to defend the University system and the Nigerian State through all legitimate means, we cannot be cowed by tyrants.”
Also speaking, the Bauchi Zonal Coordinator, Prof. Lawan Abubakar, accused the federal government of systematic attempts to destroy public universities in Nigeria by allowing strikes to linger for a long time.
Abubakar, who said that withholding salaries of its members and the pro rata payments are diversions by the government of the main issues, accused the government of provoking the last over seven months strike and allowing it to linger when they could have ended it within a short period of time by implementing agreements reached with the union.
“The Union resolved to go this way so that: we suspended the last strike having seen that it was the government that provoked the last strike in the first place because it was not necessary after the 2020 strike because we have an MOA and there were timelines for the implementation.
“And the government came up with what it came up with after eight months when it could have done the same thing in February 2022. We have seen a systematic attempt to destroy the Nigerian public university system, and we thought that we were the most informed stakeholders, and we said from ourselves that enough of the strike.
“And when government now continued with the provocation to the extent of paying the October pro rata salary, we went at the National Executive Council meeting and really affirmed to Nigerians what we will not join hands with these elements in government who want to create continues problems in the Nigerian public university system so that the private universities van thrive because as it is now, more than 95 percent of Nigerian students are still in public universities.”
The Zonal Coordinator said that: “The private universities are less than 5 percent and are enjoying while the public universities are running out of business, so they need to be protected by these elements in government because most of them have these private universities and most of them have seeming sinister motives to even privatize public universities; that is why some of them are situating federal universities in their villages so that they can quickly own and run them.”
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