By AISHA NANA, Bauchi – Federal Polytechnic, Bauchi, has been shut down indefinitely following a violent student protest sparked by an alleged midnight robbery at the male hostel on Tuesday. The institution’s management announced the closure in a statement by its Registrar Alhaji Kasimu Salihu, released to journalists in...
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By IBUKUN EMIOLA, News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) In the clinical halls of some In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) centres across Nigeria, a new kind of transaction is quietly thriving. University students, especially, often driven by financial hardship, ignorance or peer pressure, are becoming the unseen suppliers of eggs and...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja– The Managing Director/CE of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Mr. Akintunde Sawyerr, has issued a stern warning to institutions that fail to inform students of loan disbursements made on their behalf, while still demanding payment of institutional fees from the same students. According to...
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has advised female students to take advantage of the Federal Government’s zero-interest education loans to support their academic pursuits and financial stability. The Managing Director of NELFUND, Mr Akintunde Sawyerr, gave this advice on Monday in Abuja. He spoke at the NELFUND Women...
A socio-cultural group, the Legends Club of Okun Land in Kogi, is set to purchase Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) forms for 300 indigent students to support less privileged students in the area. The Director, Media and Publicity of the club, Mr Olusegun Abereoran, disclosed this in a...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maidugiri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum, has expressed his heartfelt condolences to the Borno State University (BOSU) community as well as parents and guardians of students affected by the tragic motor accident along Maiduguri-Damaturu road. The accident which occurred at Njimtilo area on Wednesday evening...
By IBRAHIM MOMOH, Lokoja – As leaders play a crucial role in shaping the future, St. Augustine’s College, Kabba, Old Boys’ Foundation (SACKOBF) has taken a significant step towards nurturing the next generation of leaders by launching a comprehensive leadership training programme for the students and staff of the...
No death or injury was recorded early Thursday morning during a fire incident at the University of Ibadan (UI), the institution and Oyo state fire authorities have confirmed. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that fire had gutted a section of Queens Hall in the institution in the...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja- No fewer than 13 students of the Federal Government College in Enugu State has been suspended for 6-weeks over alleged bullying in the school. The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa ordered the suspension of the students based on a viral video showing some students...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto No fewer than 42 students of Sokoto indigenes, who are the first batch of the 100 beneficiaries of the Senator Ibrahim Lamido Education Trust Fund will depart Nigeria this week for India. Senator Lamido, who spoke in his Sokoto residence, when parents of the benefiting...
FirstBank in partnership with Junior Achievement Nigeria (JAN), a non-profit organisation has produced new winners in its 2024 National Company of the Year (NCOY) competition. The 2024 competition held in Lekki, Lagos on Friday comprised of 12 schools representing different states, who were finalists from an earlier contest, locking...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In a bid to realize egual access to education, the Federal Government said it has targeted to enroll 825,000 students with disabilities cumulatively over the next five years, The Minister of State for Education, Dr Tanko Yusuf Sununu disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – The Senator representing Sokoto East Senatorial District, Ibrahim Lamido has granted scholarship to 100 students from the state to study for their Post and undergraduate programmes in India. The first batch of the scholarship beneficiaries include 42 male students who are expected to leave...
Chairman Senate Committee on Local Content, Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has empowered tertiary institution students from Kogi Central with multipurpose business carts. She equally flagged off free Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) registration of 2,500 Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in the district. The initiative is part of her continued efforts...
Following cases of fake certification recently detected by the Joint Admission Matriculation Board (JAMB), examination boards in Kenya and Uganda are now writing Nigeria to verify records presented by Nigerian candidates seeking admissions into tertiary institutions in their respective countries. JAMB made this known in a document ‘Registrar’s Report...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – The Member representing Jere Federal Constituency at the National Assembly, Rt. Hon. Engr Satomi Ahmad FNSE, has appealed to National Union of Borno State Students (NUBOSS) and by extension their counterparts in the North East sub- region to shelve any plan of joining...
Top personalities who witnessed the passing out and graduation parade at the Navy Secondary School in Borokiri, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, South-South Nigeria, at the weekend concluded that the way the Navy trains students may be the rescue pillar for Nigeria. From the governor of Rivers State, Siminalayi...
By OLA MUDOPE, Osogbo – Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke on Tuesday evening at the Government House held a closed door meeting with Student leaders from across the unions with a joint resolution to jointly work for good governance for all Osun residents. At the meeting coordinated by Governor’s...
Plateau Commissioner for Information and Communication, Mr Musa Ashoms, has confirmed that about 200 students were trapped in the Jos school building that collapsed in Jos. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), the Saints Academy, a secondary school in Jos, collapsed on Friday, while students were writing their...