Enugu Begins Daily School Classes On Radio: In order to help Enugu State students in their academics during the Covid-19 lockdown period, the Enugu Enugu State Government in conjunction with Radio Nigeria Enugu has announced the commencement of daily school [...]
A man has taken to social media to show just how full of possibilities this country is to those who work hard. Tshilidzi Nenzhelele started off living in a mud hut but did not let those circumstances stop him from [...]
Religion, modernity, and secularity often do not mix well at all in Nigeria -a multi-ethnic and religious overpopulated nation -as the latest case of two graduates refusing to wear prescribed uniform in the orientation camp of the National Youth Service [...]
November 14, 2019
Education
FG sends 150 Nigerians to China: The Federal Government has sent over 150 children to Chinese universities to study railway engineering, Transportation Minister, Rotimi Amaechi, said at the National Assembly on Monday. Mr. Amaechi appeared before the National Assembly’s joint [...]
October 24, 2019
Education
Nigeria To Enrol 10.2 Million Out-Of-School Children The Nigerian government says it has committed N10 billion to remove 10.2 million out-of-school children from streets in the next five years. The governments said it hopes to achieve the target by enrolling [...]
October 19, 2019
Education
The Ministry of labour and Employment, has confirmed receipt of application for the registration of a new University Union, Congress of University Academics (CONUA), to be formed out of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Dr Chris Ngige, the [...]
October 7, 2019
Education
The University of Ibadan management has sacked Chukwuemeka Diji, the lecturer who protested the ‘illegal’ deduction of his salaries. PREMIUM TIMES in July reported how the senior lecturer had been experiencing ‘illegal’ deductions from his salary since September 2018. Mr Diji, a [...]
September 23, 2019
Education
Ogun polytechnic in secret moves to increase school fees The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has cried out that the Management of DS Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic, Itori, Ogun State, was making secret moves to increase tuition fees and to [...]
September 20, 2019
Education
British-Nigerian genius: A genius is said to be somebody who exhibits an extraordinary intellectual ability to a certain stage associated with the achievement of new advances in a domain of knowledge and Nigerian has been blessed with an armful of [...]
September 13, 2019
Education
Dr. Yakubu Nura of the University of Maiduguri Nigeria wins World Physics Competition World Championship-2019 in Physics (EINSTEIN’S PLANETARY EQUATION) acknowledges the outstanding international contributions and is selected based on international meritorious competition. Dr Yakubu Nura’s research article was judged [...]
The Imo State Government has taken over the Eastern Palm University, Ogboko and converted it to a campus of the Imo State University, Owerri. The 8th Imo Assembly had passed a law allotting 90 per cent equity shares to trustees [...]
The newly installed 36th President of Rotary Club of Uyo, District 9142 in Akwa Ibom State, Mrs Idongesit Domingo-Inyang, has decried the situation where pupils still sit on the floor of their classroom to learn in the state, Brainnews report. [...]
Five Inmates Of Kirikiri Prison Bag University Degrees Five inmates of Maximum Security Prison in Kirikiri, Lagos, have bagged university degrees from National Open University (NOUN). The Vice Chancellor of NOUN, Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu, disclosed this in Lagos on [...]
Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has placed a ban on illegal fee collections in all primary and secondary schools owned by the state government, Hope for Nigeria Online reports. The governor’s directive was the subject of a circular released on [...]
Youngest SAN In Nigeria: 34-year-old Oyetola Muyiwa Atoyebi, a Law graduate of the University of Ilorin, has become the youngest senior advocate of Nigeria (SAN)...He was among the 38 lawyers recently elevated to that height. The new SANs would be [...]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) on Sunday described the President Muhammadu Buhari’s policy on education as anti-masses. It accused the All Progressives Congress government of a deliberate plan to starve public education with funds in order to deny Nigerian [...]
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) on Wednesday appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the Polytechnic Act (Amendment) Bill to address many challenges confronting the sector. Its National President, Mr Usman Dutse, told the News Agency of Nigeria [...]
Governor Emeka Ihedioha has reversed the status of the newly converted Imo State University of Agriculture and Technology, Umuagwo, to its earlier polytechnic status. The immediate past governor of the state, Rochas Okorocha, at the end of his administration elevated [...]
Sonny Echono, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education has confirmed that every qualified and licensed teacher would be employed as part of efforts to rid the system of unqualified teachers. He said this while monitoring the May Diet of the Teachers [...]
Attention has been drawn to the pathetic state of the Obizi Community secondary school in Ezinihite LGA, Imo state, Nigeria. Students of the school are subjected to classes taught in dilapidated buildings or under trees. The buildings are in such [...]
President Buhari has told graduates from Nigerian Universities that a university degree won’t necessarily usher them into an El Dorado and its not a meal ticket. The President said this today May 10th at the 13th Convocation ceremony for the [...]
Agege Local Government Area of Lagos State on Monday morning launched free shuttle buses for pupils of public primary and secondary schools in the locality. Twenty six primary schools and nine secondary schools are in the area with a total [...]
Agbami Parties Donates Classrooms To Community Model High School, Isieke Umuahia Model Classroom block, donated to Community Model High School, Isieke Ibeku, Umuahia North LGA built and donated by the AGBAMI PARTIES (NNPC, CHEVRON, FAMFA OIL, PETROBRAS, EQUINOR) [...]
Ms. Folashade Salako, a final year student of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) has won the 2019 Shalina Young Talent Award (SYTA) where she was crowned as Nigeria’s “best Pharmacy brain” at a ceremony held at the [...]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday slammed the Federal Government and Aisha Buhari, over the proposed plan to establish a private university to be named after President Muhammadu Buhari. ASUU who slammed Aisha Buhari, further described the [...]
Wife of the President, Aisha Buhari, has expressed her plan to establish a private university to be known as Muhammadu Buhari University. She disclosed this on Saturday during a town hall meeting in Yola, organised by her in collaboration with [...]
The picture below is the new building of University of Lagos medical centre [...]
Sokoto State University has increased tuition fee by over a 100 percent for the new academic session and issued a seven-day ultimatum for students to comply or withdraw from the university. According to the Ramadan Mijinyawa, President, National Union of [...]
The Federal Government, FG has renamed Ebonyi University Teaching Hospital to Alex Ekwueme University Teaching Hospital, Abakaliki after its approval. Alhaji Ahmed Ramalan, Chairman of the hospital’s board who confirmed that FG has renamed Ebonyi University Teaching Hospital, said the renaming [...]
A 77-year-old retired worker and grandma who, on Tuesday, bagged her first-degree certificate at the 50th convocation ceremony of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, says she enrolled for the programme after her retirement to avoid boredom. The retiree, Mrs. [...]