Monday (11th May) Top Educational News on Allschool Forum

Monday (11th May) Top Educational News on Allschool Forum. Read and please share!

1. FG paid lecturers’ salary on IPPIS with discrepancies

Behold, the withheld salary of the University lectures has been paid through the controversial IPPIS. Unfortunately, about 25-50% of the said salary has been slashed with no apparent reason yet. This is anticipated already, and that is what ASUU has been skeptical about. The ASUU members have been forcefully enrolled in the IPPIS without their consent, whether this is legally correct or not, I will leave it to the experts in the judiciary. Read More

2. University of Benin Teaching Hospital (UBTH) begins COVID-19 testing

Joshua Uwaila, Head, Public Relations Unit of UBTH, made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Benin on Monday. Read More

3. ABU to Upgrade All Research Laboratories – Prof Kabir Bala  

The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria is to upgrade all its research laboratories and inculcate the culture of sharing such facilities among researchers and other scientists from within and outside. Read More

4. Convert abandoned buildings, schools to isolation centres, FG tells states

The Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the COVID-19 Pandemic has charged  State governments to start considering all available unusual structures to be converted and equipped for isolation centres. Read More

5. COVID-19: FG pays Nigerians on scholarship abroad

Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, the State Minister for Education, has said that Nigerians on scholarship abroad have been paid through their various Embassies. Read More

6. How FG can reopen schools, varsities within four weeks – Afe Babalola  

The founder, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola, has advised the Federal Government against waiting till all towns and villages in the country are free from COVID-19 before reopening schools. Read More

7. Group accuses Ministry of humanitarian affairs of plot to feed ghost school children

A Civil rights advocacy group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has accused the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs of planning to feed ghost pupils as they planned to proceed with the School Feeding programme even as schools have been on an emergency vacation due to COVID-19 lockdown for nearly two Months. Read More

8. COVID-19 Lockdown: EKSU students beg Fayemi to adopt e-learning

Worried by the prolonged lockdown of universities and other educational institutions in the country and the unhealthy toll the development is having on students, students of the Ekiti State University (EKSU) have urged state governor Kayode Fayemi to urgently adopt an e-learning option for the institution. Read More

9. Kaduna receives 9,409 bursary/scholarships applications

Kaduna state Scholarship and Loans Board has said that a total of 9, 409 students applied for the 2019/2020 bursary, indicating a 13.35% increase over last academic year. Read More

10. FG warns vice-chancellors against reopening varsities 

The Federal Ministry of Education has ordered vice chancellors to maintain the closure of federal, state and private universities in order to keep students and university communities safe from coronavirus. Read More

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