The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) embarked on an indefinite strike accusing the Federal Government of failure to redeem the terms of agreement signed in 2009. The strike commenced on Sunday, August 13th 2017 following an emergency National Executive Council meeting of the union in Abuja.
The Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), at its 19th Convocation last Thursday inducted Professor Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, mni, MFR the Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), and four others as Fellows of the elite organization.
The National Council of Education (NCE) has ratified the return of History and Religious Studies into the Basic Education Curriculum of Nigerian Schools
A promoter and proprietor of a closed illegal degree mill, one Mr. Martins Olurantise was convicted and sentenced to ten years imprisonment by the Federal High Court, Akure on the 19th June 2017.
The Acting Executive Chairman, Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mr. Ibrahim Mustafa Magu has disclosed that the Commission would from January 2018, commence full sponsorship of 20 doctoral research theses in the Nigerian University System (NUS)