Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has signed Executive Order 21 to prohibit the use of public schools for political parties without approval from the Ministry of Education. Wike said applicants would also deposit the sum of N5million caution fees in [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari said yesterday Nigeria’s future relied heavily on education, noting that no society could grow beyond its educational attainments. The President said it was in consideration of such development that his government was determined to return teachers, teaching and [...]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has said the registration of two new trade unions by the government for academic staff in the university system is inconsequential and does not pose any threat to its existence. The National President [...]
The National Examinations Council (NECO) on Thursday released the results of the internal diet of the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE). The Chief Executive Officer and Registrar of the examination body, Datani Wushishi, who made the announcement in Minna, Niger State [...]
The current strike by Nigerian university lecturers, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has resulted in about 15 lecturers passing away at the University of Calabar, Cross River State. This is as there are other fatalities every day at [...]
With no end in sight to the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), seven months after, the fate of students seeking admission into the nation’s universities remains unknown as two new sets await the resumption of [...]
Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, has revealed that Nigerians should be made to pay more for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in exchange for financial autonomy for the board. Oloyede, who spoke before the [...]
The management of the Ekiti State University (EKSU), Ado Ekiti, has reopened the institution for academic activities, in defiance of the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Union of Universities (ASUU) nationwide. The management directed the students to [...]
The chairman of the Enugu chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Comrade Theodore Odo has said that unless the government pays minimum wage to teachers, the indefinite strike primary school teachers embarked upon three weeks ago would continue. [...]
The Kano State Executive Council has given approval for the 50 per cent upward review of the state scholarships allowances for its indigene students studying in Nigerian institutions. Similarly, it has also approved the release of N865.4 million to the state [...]
Hundreds of demonstrators marched towards the seat of government in Lagos on Tuesday, singing anti-government chants on the first day of a planned three-day nationwide demonstration against the continued closure of Nigerian universities. Workers’ unions across several sectors participated in [...]
The Nigerian government and the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) are once again in a war of words over the continued shutdown of public universities. The strike, which began on February 14, has been rolled over and is now in [...]
Organisers of the popular television reality show, Big Brother Naija (BBNaija), have announced that season seven (7) of the show will begin on July 23. Teeming millions of Nigerians, as usual, who are fans of the show have been waiting [...]
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N964 million for the provision of satellite-based education system equipment in three primary schools in each of the 36 States of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. Information and Culture Minister, [...]
A motorcyclist in Oyo State, Adegoke Adejare, has donated writing materials worth thousands of naira to pupils of St. Paul’s Anglican School, Yanbule in Ibadan. While giving out the writing materials which included books, pencils, pens and erasers to the [...]
President Muhammadu Buhari’s government has disclosed that it will spend N999 million daily to feed approximately 10 million pupils in the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) across the country. This was revealed on Tuesday by Aishatu Digil, the [...]
The Social Sciences Students Association of Nigeria (SOSSAN) has called on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration to put an end to the ongoing strike action by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) so that academic activities can resume. In [...]
In 2016, when President Mohammadu Buhari-led government launched the school feeding programme, the idea was to address the growing number of out-of-school children, tackle malnutrition due to poverty among Nigerian children and their attendant consequences on education. These, among other [...]
Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has called for more investment in primary and secondary schools to enhance the pursuit of purposive tertiary education, which is tailored towards meeting society’s needs. Echono, who spoke, while receiving [...]
The Joint Action Committee of the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities, SSANU, on Friday again extended their 14-day warning strike in Nigerian universities by one month. The National President, SSANU, Mohammed H. Ibrahim [...]
No fewer than 11,536 schools have remained closed since December 2020 as a result of abductions and security related issues. The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) made known on Thursday in a statement signed by its Communication Specialist, Samuel Kaalu, [...]
The management of the Technical University, Ibadan, Oyo State, has dissociated itself from claims made by United States-based Professor, Godwin Sadoh alleging non-payment of salaries and contract breach. Sadoh had alleged that Afolabi Oladapo, a former Head of Service of [...]
The management of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU Ile-Ife, Osun State, has announced the appointment of Prof Adebayo Simeon Bamire as its new substantive new Vice-Chancellor. The appointment, according to Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Council, Owelle Oscar Idoko, takes effect from [...]
Teachers in public primary and secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State have commenced an indefinite strike to press home their demands for the payment of eight years leave grant and six years of promotion arrears. “The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) hereby [...]
The number of students who applied to universities in the United Kingdom has increased by 47%, a report from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service stated. Nigeria recorded the most substantial proportional increase in 2021. It is also the largest [...]
Borno State Governor, Prof Babagana Zulum, on Thursday, described as “very scary” some findings submitted to him by a committee he constituted and tasked with conducting basic literacy and numeracy competency assessment of 17,229 local education authority teachers across the [...]
Proprietor of Kingsfold International Academy, Mrs Olubunmi Osoba, has lamented increased cases of examination malpractice and cheating among school children and effects on quality education. She also frowned at the role of some parents in the menace, describing it as [...]
A video of some students at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Cross River State, lamenting how they are writing their exams in the dark, has surfaced online. In the video now eliciting reactions on social media, some of the students [...]
The Kano State Government on Monday suspended the licenses of private schools over the murder of Hanifa Abubakar. Kano State Government said the schools’ licenses remained suspended until they are vetted. The Commissioner for Education Sanusi Said Kiru made the [...]
Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State said on Thursday that lack of functional education was adversely contributing to the menace of insecurity in the North. He decried the activities of insurgents in the North-East, attributing their evil campaign to lack [...]
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