UNESCO, UNICEF, ILO and Education International say countries should ensure that teaching is transformed into a more attractive and valorised profession where teachers are valued, trusted, and adequately supported. Audrey Azoulay, Director-General, UNESCO, Gilbert F. Houngbo, Director-General, International Labour Organisation, Catherine Russell, Executive Director, UNICEF, David Edwards, General Secretary,...
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Vice Chancellor, University of Abuja, Prof. Abdul-Rasheed Na’allah has disclosed that students who intend to study in the university must undertake and present a drug test before admission. Na’allah, who made this known at the 27th Pre- Convocation briefing in Abuja on Wednesday said the institution is working with...
By OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – MTN Foundation through its annual scholarship initiative has awarded scholarships to 360 undergraduate Nigerian students in addition to 651 current scholars, totalling 1,011 scholars. The awardees were celebrated at award ceremonies held in Port Harcourt, Lagos and Abuja. NATIONAL ACCORD reports that the...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – In order to cushion the effect of petrol subsidy removal, a charity organization; Florence Agogo Foundation has awarded bursary to over fifty (50) indigent students across the eighteen (18) Local Government Area of Cross River State.s Speaking at a dinner night and the scholarship...
The Junior Secondary School (JSS), Karu, Abuja has emerged winner of the FCT Universal Basic Education Board Head-to-Head Debate Reality Show for Public and Private Junior Secondary Schools across the Six Area Councils of the FCT. The JSS Karu won the competition, scoring 67 per cent while JSS...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has upgraded the Niger State College of Education (COE) to the Niger State University of Education. The Acting Executive Secretary of NUC, Chris Maiyaki disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday. He said the upgrading would make it the 63rd state-owned university and 270th university...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has addressed recent concerns raised by some stakeholders over the plight of some Nigerian lecturers studying in foreign institutions under the TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff (TSAS) programme, who are requesting for bailout by the Fund to cater...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – The management of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, have readjusted downward the sundry charges payable by students of the University. The spokesman of the institution, Abiodun Olarewaju, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday in Ile-Ife. Olarewaju said that...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government has disclosed plans to allocate 25 percent of the national budget to the education sector. Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman disclosed this on Monday in Abuja while declaring open a 2 day National Conference on Equal Opportunity on...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has inaugurated an ad hoc committee on the establishment of central multipurpose laboratories in selected universities in the country. Inaugurating the committee on Monday in Abuja, Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, said the move was...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is worried over the recent hike in fees by varsities across the country, saying it may force many students out of school. Many public universities have in recent months increased their tuition fees owing to what they described as the country’s...
The House of Representatives says it will ensure that 14 million out-of-school Nigerian children are back to schools through an intervention framework. Rep. Almustapha Aliyu, the Chairman, House Committee on Alternative Education, said this in Abuja on Sunday. He said out-of-school children would be trained with relevant skills to...
Rep. Abdullahi Aliyu (APC-Musawa/Matazu) in Katsina State disbursed N32.5 million as scholarships to 1,895 indigent students of the state on Saturday. Beneficiaries from Musawa Local Government Area of the state numbered 1,087, while those from Matazu Local Government Area numbered 808. Each university undergraduate and those studying...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has sought for the support of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to strengthen the infrastructural development of tertiary institutions in the state. The call came during a courtesy visit on the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Sonny Echono...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Bassey Otu, has called for more funding of tertiary institutions in the state by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). The governor made the call in Calabar, Wednesday, when the House of Representatives Ad-hoc Committee to Investigate Alleged...
The Executive Secretary, National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Prof. Idris Bugaje, has urged the Federal Government to scrap the Higher National Diploma (HND) in the Polytechnics if the government would not remove the dichotomy between HND and BSc. Bugaje disclosed this during an interview with the News Agency...
Anambra State Governor, Chukwuma Soludo has announced free and compulsory education from nursery to Junior Secondary School (JSS 3) in public schools in the state. Soludo announced the policy at Premier Primary School, Obosi, Idemili North Council Area, on Thursday. He said that his administration was passionate...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Equal Opportunity Group (JEOG) has rescheduled its first “National Conference on Equal Opportunity of Access to Higher Education in Nigeria” earlier scheduled to hold on Tuesday, 26th and Wednesday, 27th September, to Monday, 25th and Tuesday, 26th...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Universal Basic Education Commission has revealed that Nigeria needs an additional 20,000 schools and 907,769 classrooms to be able to absorb the growing number of out-of-school children in the country. The Executive Secretary of UBEC, Hammed Boboyi, gave the statistics while briefing...