LASU Workers Cripple Convocation Ceremony, Chase VC Out

Members of staff of the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, yesterday protested what they called bad administrative style of the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. John Obafunwa, chasing Reghim out of campus alongside other principal officers.

The staffers under the various trade unions in the institution, including the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, listed victimisation of staff, non-payment of outstanding salary arrears, violation of due process, ruining staff image in newspapers, withdrawal of PhD certificates of some lecturers, denial of letters for elected Governing Council and Senate members, as some of their grouses against the authority, thus warranting the protest.

125 Nigerian students to attend Northeastern with full scholarship

125 college students from Nigeria who received full scholarships from the Nigerian government will be attending college in Boston in the fall. The students are set to attend Northeastern University, and roughly half of them arrived in Boston on Monday May 26th.

Boko Haram Members Burn Their University Certificates

Shehu Sani is a Nigerian civil rights activist, playwright and author. He is president of the Civil Rights Congress of Nigeria and has negotiated with Boko Haram in the past.

Shehu Sani in this write up speaks on the abducted girls and the insurgents.
Until the abduction of more than 200 girls at the Government Girls Secondary School in rural Chibok, Nigeria’s Boko Haram insurgency received scant attention in the global media, which gave it brief airtime when the insurgents exploded their bombs or torched a school.

Ini Edo Gets Scholarship to Study Law at National Open University

 

LASU students vow not to pay Fashola’s fees

The Lagos State University Students Union (LASUSU) on Thursday said no student of the institution would pay the increased tuition fee levied by government of Raji Fashola

The Union President, Nurudeen Yusuf, at a press briefing at the Ojuelegba campus, said that the decision was unanimously taken by the students of the university.

“The students had unanimously agreed not to pay the increased fee, as they resume a new session, next week until a reduction is made,” he said.

Back to the stone age? Covenant University Bans Use Of Tablets!

                                               

This is just ridiculous. Who made this decision? Fred Flintstones? We are in an era of modern technology and someone actually took this decision.
                         

Don’t play with your destiny, Fawehinmi tells LASU students

                                 
Mohammed, son of the late human rights activist, Gani Fawehinmi, has urged students of the Lagos State University to adopt the “intellectual approach” to compel the state government to reduce the high tuition fees demanded in the institution.