A Nigerian final year medical student at Irkutsk State Medical University (ISMU), Usman Yahaya, will be deported from Russia to Nigeria any moment from now, PRNigeria has learnt. Yahaya, a Sokoto State-born medical student has been in detention in Russia, for over a month. PRNigeria, had last week reported...
Education
PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Over 200 students from the Engineering Faculty of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) have dragged the university management, and five others to court, claiming over N500 million as general damages and special expenses for breach of trust and others. The case which was instituted by...
A new born baby was on Thursday morning found dead and dumped on the busy Ayobo Road in a Lagos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the dead baby, whose gender was unknown, was wrapped with flannel and surrounded with dirt. According to a passersby, who pleaded...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The management of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has commenced discreet efforts to ensure full implementation of e-learning programmes in basic education across the country following the challenges occasioned in the sub-sector by the COVID-19 pandemic lockdown and closure of schools. To this end,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Registrar of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Professor Segun Ajiboye has been elected as the President of the Africa Federation of Teaching Regulatory Authority (AFTRA). The election was held on Wednesday at the end of AFTRA 9th Annual Conference held in Accra,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has committed about N7 billion to its various intervention projects in Benue State University (BSU), Makurdi, from 1999 to date. The Chairman of the Governing Council and Pro-Chancellor of BSU, Sebastine Hon, SAN, made this known on Tuesday...
Graduates from the top 50 non-British universities can apply to come to Britain as part of a new visa scheme, Home Secretary Priti Patel said on Monday. The most recent list of eligible universities from 2021, published online by the government, comprises 20 U.S. institutions, plus universities from Canada,...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it would further screen 27,105 results of candidates who wrote the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB disclosed this on Monday in its Weekly Bulletin issued from the Office of the Registrar in Abuja. The...
BY JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Examinations Council (NECO) has extended the registration period of the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for school based candidates to midnight of Monday, June 20. The Head, Information and Public Relations Division of NECO, Mr Azeez Sani, announced the extension in...
Miss Oluebebe Ogbonna, a 14-year-old student of Divine Rays British School Obosi, Idemili North of Anambra, on Sunday emerged winner of the first Igbo Spelling Bee competition. Ogbonna came tops in the competition in which 356 public and private secondary school students in Awka, Nnewi and Onitsha educational zones...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has set up mechanism to institute new dimension strategies in basic education in the country. This was the submission of the Executive Secretary of the commission Dr. Hamid Boboyi at the 2-day interactive meeting of the Department of Special...
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged governments to take greater action to ensure schools remain safe for boys and girls. UNICEF’s Executive Director, Ms Catherine Russell, made the call on Wednesday, following the latest deadly school shooting in the United States. No fewer than 19 children and two...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) has provided 102,859 children access to inclusive, equitable and quality education in a safe and protective learning environment mostly girls in Borno State. Unicef has also supported a total of 29,985 out-of-school youths and adolescents , mostly females...
The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), says more than 8,000 candidates have been shortlisted for interview for its Overseas Scholarship Scheme (OSS) for Masters and PhD award. Alhaji Bello Mustapha, Head, Overseas Scholarship Scheme Division, PTDF made this known on Monday in Abuja at the opening of selection interview...
Prof. Danladi Matawal, a Professor of Civil Engineering with the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, has identified corruption, poor funding, insecurity and decline of the teaching profession as the major factors responsible for the decline in the educational standard in the country. Matawal stated this in Abuja on Saturday...
The Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) affirms that education is one of the shortest ways to sustain peace and freedom in the country. According to it, with sound education of the people, many of the socially induced crises that bedevil the society, such as religious upheavals that lead to human...
The recent decision by Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, to provide financial aid to 40 schools it returned to religious missions in 2011, again underscores the time-honoured belief that leaders must learn the art of management, an art of engineering and a skill to absorb and mater success...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government on Thursday tasked traditional and religious leaders in Nigeria to join forces with the government in the efforts to reduce the high number of out-of-school children estimated at 10.5 million and myriads of other challenges besetting basic education in the country....
Cubana Chief Priest, the popular Instagram celebrity, has pledged support for students engaging in peaceful protest to put an end to the ongoing Academic staff Union of Universities(ASUU) strike. According to Cubana, the crime rate keeps increasing because youths are not properly engaged. In a shared Instagram post on...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), is transforming tertiary institutions in the country to produce graduate that can be globally competitive with necessary skills and innovation The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono stated this during a visit to INNOVATEHUB in Abuja. He...