{"id":10938,"date":"2024-07-29T11:53:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T11:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news365.ng\/?p=10938"},"modified":"2024-07-29T11:53:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T11:53:47","slug":"protest-minister-urges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news365.ng\/protest-minister-urges\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister urges students to remain on campus during nationwide protests"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Honourable Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, has directed the vice chancellors of all Nigerian Universities to ensure the security and safety of staff and students. This was made known in a statement signed by the Acting Executive Secretary National Universities Commission, Chris Maiyaki, on Monday.<\/p>\n

According to the statement, students are mandated to remain on campus and focus on their academic pursuits so as to avoid exposure to any potential danger during the planned protestsThe Federal Government is not unaware of the right of any Nigerian to peaceful protest, but is concerned about the safety of staff, students and university property should there be any protest action.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsequently, the Honourable Minister has directed that vice-chancellors of all Nigerian universities should take pro-active steps to ensure the security and safety of the university community, including staff and students.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition, vice chancellors are to please issue specific statements to assure staff and students of their safety. It is also advisable that students remain on campus to please accept the renewed assurances of my highest considerations and best wishes,\u201d the statement reads.<\/p>\n

Source: Dailpost<\/p>\n

In other news – Troops kill eight terrorists, raid Boko Haram enclave in Borno<\/span><\/h3>\n

Troops of the\u00a0Nigerian Army<\/a> conducting counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency operations under the aegis of Operation HADIN KAI in North East Nigeria, have eliminated 8 terrorists in Bula Marwa, just ahead of Siraja village in Borno State.<\/p>\n

\"Borno\"<\/a><\/p>\n

According to a statement by the army, the troops in conjunction with the Hybrid\/Civilian Joint Task Force. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Honourable Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, has directed the vice chancellors of all Nigerian Universities to ensure the security and safety of staff and students. This was made known in a statement signed by the Acting Executive Secretary National Universities Commission, Chris Maiyaki, on Monday. According to the statement, students are mandated to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5735],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-10938","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news365.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news365.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news365.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news365.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news365.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news365.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10944,"href":"https:\/\/news365.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10938\/revisions\/10944"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news365.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news365.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news365.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news365.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}