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...
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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...
An activist, Mr Tukura Kwayi, says it is not true that authorities at Department of Political Science, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) extort students, particularly those on postgraduate programmes. Kwayi made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Abuja. According...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Kano has proposed a mandatory drug test for prospective couples as part of measures to reduce drug abuse in the state. The NDLEA Commander in Kano, Mr Abubakar Idris-Ahmad, made this known to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on...
By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has urged parents and guardians to warn their children and wards not to partake in a planned protest by a “shadowy group” against its operations. EFCC Spokesperson, Dele Oyewale, gave the warning in a statement made available...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Government has shown its commitment to education equity by disbursing N507,654,000 to cover the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) fees for 25,075 final-year students in public schools across the state. This was disclosed by the state’s Commissioner of...
A part of the ceiling of the Amphitheatre of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, collapsed on Thursday injuring eight students. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that students were at the time of the incident receiving a morning lecture at the venue at Oduduwa Hall....
The inauguration of the newly-elected President of Students’ Union Government (SUG), University of Ibadan, Bolaji Aweda, was, on Monday, greeted by protests over tuition fee hike by the institution. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that while the inauguration of Aweda and other executives was going on,...
At least four schools in the western Indian city of Jaipur Monday received bomb threats, prompting school administrations to evacuate students and call police, officials said. The threat received over emails claimed that explosives had been planted on school premises. Police swung into action and dispatched multiple bomb...
Rep. Abdulmalik Zubairu (APC-Zamfara) has distributed N 10.94 million as scholarship grants to 297 undergraduates, NCE and Polytechnic students from his constituency. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Zubairu represents Bungudu and Maru Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives. Speaking at the cash disbursement exercise...
The immediate past Vice Chancellor, Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU), Bauchi State, Prof. Muhammad AbdulAziz, has advocated drug test for lecturers to sanitise university system AbdulAziz stated this in a valedictory speech to the Senate of the University at a handing over ceremony to his successor, Prof. Sani...