Monday 7th September Top Educational News on Allschool Forum

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1. COVID-19: Issues in reopening of universities

NEARLY six months after universities were shut nationwide as part of the measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus plague, plans to reopen them are enmeshed in a whiff of dissonance...Read More

2. ASUU vindicated on objection to resumption by public universities  

IT is a notorious fact that the Federal Government closed down all educational institutions in Nigeria with effect from Monday, March 23 to curtail the spread of the invisible killer christened Covid-19 pandemic which made an incursion into the country the previous February…Read More

3. Save Sule Lamido University  

Iti is no longer news that a bill to amend the 2013 Establishment Law of the Jigawa state-owned university – Sule Lamido University (SLU), Kafin Hausa in order to STOP the 2% statutory Local Government (LG) contribution to the University is before the Jigawa State House of Assembly (JGHA)...Read More

4. Talk with ASUU, private varsities ready for reopening – Afe Babalola 

The founder, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola, has urged the Federal Government to negotiate with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities with a view to paying the salaries of its members and equipping public universities to make them safe for reopening...Read More

5. Two Nigerian law school lecturers accused of telling lawyers not to report sexual assault because it takes two to tango  

Some Twitter users have taken to the platform to accuse two Nigerian law school lecturers of telling lawyers not to report sexual assault because it takes two to tango. Actress Lolia Etomi who first made the disclosure, alleged that one of the female lecturers went on to blame female students who she accused of “baring their arms and tempting men”...Read More

6. Public universities still remained the best in Nigeria – General Muktar

The newly posted Commandant of Depot Nigerian Army, Major-General Kabir Muktar has said that Nigerian public universities still remained the best as far as tertiary education in the country is concerned...Read More

7. Undergraduate, 47 kids rescued from Osun baby factory  

An undergraduate and 47 children were rescued from a baby factory disguised as an orphanage in Ile-Ife, Osun State. The facility where women are apparently impregnated and their babies sold off by operators has been sealed by the state government...Read More

8. 10,000 indigent students apply for Kano State scholarship – Official  

Abubakar Zakari, Executive Secretary, Kano State Scholarship Board, says over 10,000 students have applied for the 2020 scholarship scheme in the state. Mr Zakari made this known on Monday in Kano during a visit by the graduating students of the Al Mansoura University, Egypt...Read More

9. ‘My Tough Journey To Being BUK’s First Female Mass Comm Prof’

Dr. Hajara Umar-Sanda is the first woman to move into the professorial cadre in Mass Communication, Bayero University, Kano. Hajara Sanda, an associate professor, was recently honoured by MassMediaNG as one of the top 10 female professors of Mass Communication in Nigeria and the only Northern Muslim on the list. In this interview, she shared her experience of being looked down upon for her wearing hijab and her other challenges.…Read More

10. Student robbed by masked men in middle of Zoom lesson as classmates watch in horror

Students watched through their computers in horror as masked men broke into a class mate’s house and robbed her during their live Zoom lesson.  In the video shared online, a teacher is seen coaching his students via Zoom. Suddenly, two men wearing masks storm into Maria Jose’s room as she is on a Zoom chat with 25 others as well as her teacher...Read More