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The University of Lagos, UNILAG on Friday increased tuition fees with the least increase at 420% with medical students having to adjust their tuition provisions by 901%, a move the university claimed is reflective of a national consensus across Nigeria. In the announcement that came out from UNILAG, the least tuition was raised from N19,000
The students of the Nigerian Federal Universities are becoming increasingly frustrated as ASUU and Federal Government have been using their future to play Ludo game. Jkcyno news earlier reported that Nigerian Students fixed date for Protest against ASUU strike. It was a move by few concerned students to further express their frustration to the Nigerian state. As
As the ASUU strike lingers with the government giving little or no attention to the plight of the increasingly frustrated students at home, some sets of students have decided to stage a peaceful protest starting from Unilag to remind the government that their future is more important than local politicking. The government who seems more keen
After the closure of students’ hostels in July over the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic, the management of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, has asked students to start returning to campus from next week. A statement on Wednesday by the Registrar, Mr. Oladejo Azeez, indicated that the students should begin to arrive the campus from August 26,
The management of the University of Lagos has shut down the student hostels over reported cases of coronavirus on the campus. Also, the management also approved that lectures for the rest of the semester should be delivered virtually with effect from 26th July 2021. The decision was reached at an emergency senate meeting held on
University of lagos, UNILAG is trending for the wrong reasons. According to reports and reactions on twitter, the students of the institution are meant to write at least 9 courses in one week without adequate lectures . Jkcyno news gathered that most of the lecturers dumped some courses, notes on the e-learning portal without any
Chairman of the University of Lagos chapter of the Non Academic Staff Union of Universities and Allied Institutions, Mr. Kehinde Ajibade, has described the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) used to pay civil servants as fraudulent. He accused the Federal Government of deceiving the Union to sign up for it. NASU and the Senior
Professor Folasade Ogunsola on Monday emerged as the Acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos. She was elected by members of the Senate at an emergency meeting held on Monday. While Ogunsola polled 135 of 167 votes, her closest fellow contestant, Prof. Ben Ogbojafor, secured 31 votes. The Federal Government had, last week, asked UNILAG Senate
‘Sex for grades’: Undercover in West African universities – BBC Africa Eye – full documentary Academic institutions in West Africa have increasingly been facing allegations of sexual harassment by lecturers. This type of abuse is said to be endemic, but it’s almost never proven. After gathering dozens of testimonies, BBC Africa Eye sent undercover journalists
A former street beggar, Mr. Abdulsalam Idowu, heaved a sigh of fulfilment of a life ambition as he was called to the bar to start practising as a lawyer in Nigeria on Wednesday. Idowu, who defied odds to bag his law degree from the University of Lagos in 2015, had proceeded to the Nigerian Law