Speaking on Wednesday in his inaugural ministerial press conference which is ongoing in Abuja, Alausa also hinted on the possibility of his administration to review the nation’s education policy.
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The exercise for the students is designed to encourage learning and offer students support funds as rewards.
The meeting which is expected to focus on sexual harassment in tertiary institutions is convened by the ICPC and Gender Mobile Initiative (GMI), a Non-Governmental Organisation.
The Councils inaugurated were those of federal universities, federal polytechnics and federal colleges of education.
This followed the adoption of a motion sponsored by Terseer Ugbor (APC-Benue) at plenary on Thursday in Abuja.
The approval was granted at the ongoing 2021 Policy Meeting and Admission being virtually held.
The workers, under the Joint Unions of Tertiary Institutions of Kaduna State, said in a statement signed by its Chairman, Noah Danlami, on Wednesday in Kaduna.
The Commissioner for Higher Education, Prof. Patrick Muoboghare, made the clarification on Thursday in Asaba, while briefing newsmen on the government’s preparedness for tertiary institutions in the state to reopen for academic activities.
Dr. Fayemi disclosed this in a statewide broadcast on Sunday.
Prof. Charles Ayo, also a former Vice-Chancellor of Covenant University, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Ota, Ogun State.
Lawan stated this in his remarks on Tuesday after the upper chamber passed a Bill for an Act to prevent, prohibit and redress sexual harassment of students in Tertiary Educational Institutions.
The Bill for an Act to prevent, prohibit and redress sexual harassment of students in Tertiary Educational Institutions was sponsored by the Deputy Senate President, Ovie Omo-Agege (APC-Delta Central).
In a statement signed by the state Commissioner for Information, Malam Muhammed Garba, on Friday, to mark the International Day Against Drug Abuse, Ganduje said the compulsory drugs test would begin when the state Drug Administration Agency begins operation.
The Federal Government has ordered the closure of tertiary institutions, secondary and primary schools nationwide following the outbreak of Coronavirus.
The Issue of sex for grades in tertiary institutions across West Africa has been disheartening to say the least. It is a corrupt practice usually by lecturers of these institutions, they demand for sex in order to pass the student. They go as far as intentionally failing the student knowing that the student will be at their mercy, thereby taking advantage of the student’s helpless situation.
The Federal University of Technology, Akure; University of Port Harcourt; Benue State University, Makurdi; and Imo State University have become the latest schools to benefit from the free smartphones and data packages being presented to tertiary institutions by telecommunications operator, Globacom, and global ICT solutions provider, Huawei.
The Kwara Government says it has released the sum of N125 million as June 2018 subvention to all the state-owned tertiary institutions.
The Minister of Education, Alhaji Adamu Adamu, gave the warning at the ongoing Joint Admission and Matriculation Board Policy Meeting on Admissions into Tertiary Institutions in Gbongan, Osun.
The State Commissioner for Tertiary Education, Abdullahi Alkinla, disclosed this in a statement released on Thursday in Ilorin.
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund on Wednesday expressed regrets that institutions which benefitted from the N22.3 billion intervention fund in the last 10 years underutilised the funds.