…appeals to President Tinubu to intervene Determined to continue with its advocacy aimed at improving the quality of infrastructure in public universities across the country for enhanced teaching and leaning, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Education Advancement Initiative (EAI), has called for immediate release of 600 billion Naira this year...
Education
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed has approved the recruitment of 3,000 teachers to be deployed to Junior and Senior Secondary schools across the state. The state Project Coordinator, Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE), Malam Ali Gar, stated this on Thursday during a sensitisation meeting on Girls...
The Vice-Chancellor, University of Abuja, Professor Aisha Sani Maikudi, has approved the appointment of Professor Ukertor Gabriel Moti as director, Abuja Leadership Centre (ALC), a TETFUND Centre of Excellence in Leadership and Public Governance. The appointment, which is for an initial period of two years, was conveyed in a...
By CHRISTIANA LOT, Jos – In a pivotal initiative aimed at improving education in the Kanam Local Government Area of Plateau State, the member representing the Pankshin/Kanke/Kanam (PKK) Federal Constituency, Rt. Hon. Yusuf Adamu Gagdi, has donated a newly constructed and fully furnished three-classroom block to his alma mater,...
By Nnamdi Ojiego Professor Wasiu Lanre Adeyemo is the Chief Medical Director, CMD, of Lagos University Teaching Hospital, LUTH. In this interview, the Professor of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery speaks on his vision to transform LUTH from a tertiary to a quaternary health facility; the permanent cure for sickle...
A Nigerian graduate, who failed the West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (WASSCE) 17 times, Dr Emmanuel Ahmadu, has called on the Federal Government to reconsider its policy stopping students below 18 years of age from sitting for ‘O’ Level examination. Ahmadu, a mental health advocate in the U.S.,...
A university lecturer, Dr Stella Aririguzuh, has said banning under-18 students from sitting for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will lead to capital flight. Aririguzuh, who is the Head, Department of Mass Communication, Covenant University at Ota in Ogun, stated this on Wednesday while speaking with...
By IBRAHIM MOMOH, Lokoja – Kogi State Governor, Ahmed Usman Ododo has called on the newly appointed Governing Council of the Federal University Lokoja, (FUL), to explore more opportunities for partnerships to bring about more development to the institution. Governor Ododo made this known when he received the...
The Governing Council of Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS), has announced the appointment of Prof. Bashir Garba as the new Vice-Chancellor of the university. The Pro-Chancellor and Chairman of Governing Council, UDUS, Prof. Attahiru Jega, announced this in a statement obtained by News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja...
Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, has described the unbundling of Mass Communication in the nation’s tertiary institutions as untimely. Oloyede stated this on Tuesday in Ilorin while speaking at the 15th anniversary of 89.3FM, a radio station owned by University of Ilorin....
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman has said Nigeria’s education system was currently directed towards technology-enhanced learning to help nurture the thinking and creativity of the students. The Minister who disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja, while taking a tour of the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government has vowed to crack-down over substandard school building construction across the country, urging stakeholders including the State Universal Basic Education Boards (SUBEBs) to ensure quality in the delivery of school building projects. Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, spoke...
Wife of Anambra Governor, Dr Nonye Soludo, has offered scholarship from primary school to Master degree level to Chukwuemeka Nwuzor, an eight-year-old Mathematics genius. Soludo made the announcement when she met with Chukwuemeka and his family at the Governor’s lodge in Awka on Wednesday. The News...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has directed all institutions to now or never disclose all candidates illegally admitted prior to 2017 whose records are in their system within the next one month beginning from 1st August, 2024 or face the consequences....
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has denied a report accusing it of deliberately omitting some names of a group of Nigerian lecturers studying under the sponsorship of TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff (TSAS) from Presidential bailout. Debunking the allegation in a...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Acting Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Chris Maiyaki, has urged university administrative staff to acquire relevant computer software for the virtual learning environment as ICT literacy was no longer sufficient. Maiyaki stated this while delivering a lecture at...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – National Universities Commission (NUC) has issued a letter of recognition for the establishment of Kwara State University of Education, Ilorin, to the Governor of the State, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq. Acting Executive Secretary of NUC, Mr. Chris Maiyaki, presented the letter to AbdulRazaq, who was...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Usmanu Danfidiyo University, Sokoto (UDUS) has appointed Professor Muhammed Mahuta as acting Vice Chancellor and Mallam Abubakar Saddiq Usman as Registrar. The university’s spokesperson, Ismail Mohammed Yauri, who disclosed this in a statement on Monday, said the decision was reached at...
No fewer than 6, 700 applicants were currently jostling to take up 380 teaching jobs at various Secondary Schools in Enugu State. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent who monitored the examination on Saturday in some of the designated centres for the examination, reports that the...