Africans Distort Own History — Wole Soyinka
Nigeria’s Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka has said that African history had been “distorted and truncated by not only Europeans but by Africans themselves.”
ACU Activities Unknown to Most Nigerian Universities — Prof Rasheed
The Executive Secretary, NUC, Prof, Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, has said that activities of the Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) is unknown to Nigerian universities
NUC, CAMES Sign MoU on Quality Assurance
The National Universities Commission and Conseil Africain et Malgache pour l’Enseignement Supérieur (CAMES), had signed a Memorandum of Understanding to facilitate the implementation of their collaboration on higher education quality assurance within West African sub-region.
No Going Back On IPPIS —— President Buhari
The President and Visitor, FUT Minna, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has said that the directive to enroll all Federal Government employees drawing their salaries from the Consolidated Revenue Fund into the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System was irreversible.
Quality of Degrees By Affiliation Worries Prof. Rasheed
The Executive Secretary, NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, has expressed concerns over quality of programmes run by affiliate institutions, declaring that for effective delivery of quality university education, there must be synergy between parent universities and their affiliate institutions.
FG Approves Six New Federal Colleges of Education
In a bid towards increasing the number of quality teachers in the country, the federal government has approved the establishment and immediate take-off of six new Federal Colleges of Education in each of the geo-political zones in the country.