The anti-military struggles later led by Nigerian students such as Lanre Arogundade, Omoyele Sowore, Emmanuel Ezeazu, ...

A former Vice-Chancellor of Bayero University, Kano, Professor Sagir Abbas, has criticised Nigerian universities for failing to translate investments in higher education into practical solutions to ...

The Chairman of the Nigerian Tertiary Education and Research Analysis Committee, Emeritus Professor Peter Okebukola, said Nigerian universities are on course to achieve record-breaking performances in ...

Study has shown that only a few forward-thinking institutions, such as the University of Ibadan (UI), University of Lagos (UNILAG), and the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), among others, have ...

Senior academics from 11 British universities recently held a one-day workshop with counterparts from Nigerian universities in the capital Abuja. The main objective was to showcase opportunities for ...

Youth unemployment has been a problem in Nigeria for decades. This is why policymakers are increasingly turning to entrepreneurship education as a solution. It is hoped that entrepreneurship will ...

Industrial action by Nigeria’s university lecturers has entered its seventh month. The strike is one of the longest by academic staff in Africa’s most populous country. Strikes have plagued Nigeria’s ...

The University of Lagos is one of the institutions affected by the lecturers’ strike in Nigeria. Photo by Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Public university lecturers in Nigeria have been on ...

Oyewale Tomori, virologist and fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Science, talks about strikes in Nigerian public universities, and the wider impact on science and students. Teaching and research are ...

The withdrawal by Nigeria's National Universities Commission of the accreditation status of some academic departments in several universities, effectively closing many courses with immediate effect, ...