The Federal Government invested about N1.3 trillion so far towards the development of the country’s education sector in the past four years excluding funds spent on overhead and personnel costs, President Muhammadu Buhari said in Zaria last Thursday.
The Vice-President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, GCON, SAN, recently commissioned a 2.8MW installed capacity solar hybrid power project, under the Federal Government’s Energising Education Programme at the Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo, (FUNAI), Ebonyi State.
Medical and Dental Consultants Association of Nigeria (MDCAN) visited the Executive Secretary, NUC, Prof, Abubakar Adamu Rasheed, to solicit the support of the Commission on their call to the federal government to convert the National Hospital into a University of Medical Sciences.
Dr. Suleiman Babatunde Ramon-Yusuf and Dr. Gidado Bello Kumo have been appointed Deputy Executive Secretaries, Academics and Administration respectively by the Board of the National Universities Commission Chaired by Emeritus Professor Ayo Banjo,
The President and Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR, has directed that all Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) including universities drawing their personnel cost from the Consolidated Revenue Fund (CRF) must enroll in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS).
The NUC represented Nigeria and the African Region, at the Executive Committee meeting of Islamic World Science Citation Center (ISC) held in Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran, on Tuesday, 11th June, 2019. The NUC Deputy Executive Secretary (DES) Dr. Suleiman Ramon-Yusuf, who attended the meeting on behalf of the nation as an executive member