By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Registrar of National Examination Council (NECO), Professor Ibrahim Dantani Wushishi, has been bestowed with an award of ‘Integrity Ambassador in Public Service’, by the Verbatim News Network Limited, a media Organisation. The event which took place in Abuja on Thursday, also had the examination body...
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The Kwara State University (KWASU) says it has gotten approval for the commencement of MBBS Medicine and Surgery and 23 other programmes by the National Universities Commission (NUC). A statement issued by Dr Saeedat Aliyu, the Director, University Relations, on Thursday in Ilorin, said the approval was contained in...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) says that about 64 per cent of Nigerian children between 0 to 5 years of age do not attend Early Childhood Education (ECE), which the UN agency said is a critical foundation for all forms of child learning....
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The Nasarawa State Government has commenced the disbursement of bursary allowances to over 8,000 students studying in different institutions of higher learning across the country for 2020/2021. Executive Secretary of the Nasarawa State Scholarship Board, Hajia Sa’adatu Yahaya, disclosed this, in a press briefing...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Wednesday undertook a supervisory and interactive visit to the Ramat Polytechnic in Maiduguri, where he approved the permanent recruitment of 20 children of staff, with priority to those whose parents died working at the school. The Governor...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Prof. Sulyman Age Abdulkareem has stressed the need to support researchers to make universities system in the nation work. Prof. Abdulkareem made the call during the handing over ceremony as the 10th Vice Chancellor of...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has ordered the integration of vocational skills in over 2,775 Quranic or Almajiri Tsangaya schools/centres widely known in the northern part of Nigeria as Almajiri schools and 451 Islamiyyah schools across the state. Governor Zulum gave the order on...
The University of Benin (UNIBEN), Edo, Nigeria has been ranked 6th by the Times Higher Education (THE) in its latest World Universities rankings for Nigeria. In the rating made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Benin by the university’s Public Relations Unit, the performance...
Workers including teachers in 15 Ghanaian public universities on Monday declared a strike over their allowance disputes with the government. Four labor unions of public universities said in a statement that the decision followed the variation of their conditions of service by the government. According to them, their leadership...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Participants at the national conference on out-of-school children in Nigeria have called for political will, consistency in policy delivery and good leadership in tackling the Out-Of-School Children (OOSC) menace confronting the nation. The stakeholders also called for adequate and consistent funding as well as...
The University of Calabar (UNICAL) has resumed academic activities for fresh and old students of the institution. A check by News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) within the campus on Monday in Calabar showed that fresh students were already visiting some offices for their registration. Also, some final year students...
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State has approved an increment of 100 per cent on bursary payable to students of Lagos State origin in tertiary institutions across the country. The Executive Secretary, Lagos State Scholarship Board, Mr Abdur Rahaman Lekki said in a statement on Sunday that the increment...
The Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen has called for robust investments in the education of the girl-child. Tallen was speaking at the the first Global Reunion and Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the Federal Government Girls’ College, Bida Old Girls Association, (FEGGICOBIDOGA) in Abuja on Saturday. The...
The Vice Chancellor, University of Lagos, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, says the institution will not rest on its oars despite improvements in its ranking. Ogundipe was reacting to the recent 2023 Times Higher Education World University Rankings released on Wednesday, Oct. 12. He spoke on the sidelines of the signing...
Some students and lecturers of tertiary institutions affected by the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the South East have expressed delight with the suspension of the strike. They made their feelings known in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has suspended its eight-month-old industrial action. The union took the decision at the end of the National Executive Council meeting which was held at the ASUU secretariat in Abuja from Thursday night October 13 into the early hours of Friday, October 14. The meeting was...
By OLA MUDOPE, Ibadan – Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, has been been ranked as the 10th best university in Nigeria. LAUTECH’s Principal Assistant Registrar, Public and Alumni Relations, Mr. Fadeyi who disclosed this in a statement, said the institution also consolidated its position as the best...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) says it has trained about 17,000 academic staff on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the last two years. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono, made this known at Asset Declaration, Security and Fraud Detection Awareness Workshop...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum has allocated the 24 furnished houses his administration built and was commissioned by President Muhammadu Buhari to mark 2022 World Humanitarian Day recently in Maiduguri located at Bulumkutu Abuja area of Maiduguri metropolis. It will be recalled that the...
Airtel Africa, a leading provider of telecommunications in partnership with UNICEF on Wednesday said it was set to roll out a digital learning initiative to connect 100,000 children in Nigeria. Airtel Africa’s Group Chief Executive Officer, Mr Segun Ogunsanya, said in a statement that the 100,000 children would be...