Nigeria: Lagos Teachers Begin Strike Today

Teachers in Lagos state public primary and secondary schools have begun their statewide strike action today.

In a press briefing by the state chairman of Nigerian Union of Teachers, Comrade Samson Kayode Idowu, the teachers vowed to go ahead with the strike since the state government had failed to hearken to their demands.

Nigerian professor becomes first black VC of University of Illinois

A Nigerian Professor, Ilesanmi Adesida made history last month by becoming the first black Provost/Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs of the well-respected University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in the United States.

More than 2,000 students face deportation after Government revokes university's right to admit foreigners

London Metropolitan University has been banned from teaching overseas students, leaving more than 2,000 undergraduates potentially facing deportation.

60percent of Lecturers in Nigerian Universities don’t have Doctorate Degrees – President Goodluck Jonathan

President of Nigeria, Goodluck Jonathan has lamented that 60 percent of lecturers in Universities across the country have no doctorate degree.