The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has rejected its inclusion in the Federal Government’s Tertiary Institutions Staff Support Fund (TISSF), describing it as a ploy to make the union a “guarantor of loans it knows nothing about.” In a communiqué issued after its National Executive Council meeting at Usmanu Danfodio University, Sokoto, and signed […]
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the establishment of 18 new full-time undergraduate programmes at the University of Jos, set to commence in the 2025/2026 academic session. According to the institution’s Senior Deputy Registrar, Abdullahi Abdullahi, the approval followed a Resource Verification exercise in which the NUC assessed the university’s capacity in human and […]
The Federal Government has increased the application fee for establishing private universities in Nigeria from N5 million to N25 million, according to a memo issued on Monday by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Abdullahi Ribadu. The NUC stated that the decision aims to reposition private universities to better serve the […]
