The House of Representatives yesterday passed for second reading a bill seeking to punish perpetrators of sexual harassment of students in Nigerian institutions.

Two factions of the National Association of Nigerian Students have engaged each other in a street fight as they try to show support for either the Federal Government or the teachers in the ongoing strike.

Lecturers fail to call off the strike after meeting with FG.

The National President of Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), Biodun Ogunyemi has declared the famous ‘Sexual Harassment Bill’ sponsored by the Deputy Senate President of the 9th National Assembly, Senator Ovie Omo-Agege as unfavorable to ‘Education Providers’ (Lecturers). According to him, the bill is targeted at discrediting Nigerian lecturers, and therefore making them vulnerable to the malicious activities of some corrupt students who may want to cease such opportunity to tarnish the image of lecturers.

The University of Maiduguri has stayed open at the epicenter of the Boko Haram insurgency. A new book gives voice to the Nigerian academics who faced off with the radical Islamists who reject Western education as sinful.

A Nigerian court on Wednesday ordered lecturers at public universities to call off a strike over salary issues that have dragged on for seven months and disrupted classes during the process.