The Federal Government has inaugurated an eight-man inter-ministerial committee to investigate the activities of private universities established in the last 15 years.
The committee, headed by Prof. J. D. Amin as chairman, had been mandated to probe degree certificate racketeering by both foreign and local universities in Nigeria.
The Federal Executive Council FEC has decided to exclude universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and other tertiary institutions from the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) payment platform.
The Ag ES NUC, Mr. Chris J. Maiyaki, appealed to the Senate and House Joint Committee on Tertiary Education and TETFund for improved budget allocation to the Commission
The Honourable Minister of Education (HME), Professor Tahir Mamman (SAN), has said that the Federal Government was irrevocably committed to overhauling the education sector for better results.
A two-day maiden National Conference on Equal Opportunity of Access to Higher Education in Nigeria, under the auspices of the JAMB Equal Opportunity Group was convened
The CVCNU has lamented that inadequate funding remains one of the major challenges militating against the effective growth and global ranking of public universities in Nigeria.