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2022 WASSCE: WAEC Holds Workshop For Lagos School Principals
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has urged principals of secondary schools across the country to live up to expectation during the upcoming examination for school candidates.
Dr Amos Dangut, Deputy Registrar/Zonal…
JUST IN: ASUU extends strike by 3 months
The Academic Staff of Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its three-month strike by an additional three months.
According to a statement released by the union, the decision was reached after a meeting of its National Executive…
69,828 Candidates Sit For 2022 Entrance Exams Into Unity Schools
No fewer than 69,828 pupils on Saturday sat for the 2022 National Common Entrance Examination (NECO) for admission into the 110 federal government colleges across the country.
Malam Adamu Adamu, the Minister of Education, disclosed this…
FG To Take Over Management Of University Of Medical Sciences Uburu, Ebonyi – Buhari
President Muhammadu Buhari says the Federal Government will take over the management of the University of Medical Sciences, Uburu, Ebonyi, as a Federal Medical University.
The president made the pronouncement at a state dinner in his…
VC Tasks Lecturers On Authoring Well-Researched Books
The new Vice Chancellor of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Prof. Alloysius Okolie, has tasked lecturers on authoring well researched books meant to provide solutions to societal ills.
Okolie gave the task…
Workers’ Day: PDP Wants Government To Address ASUU Strike
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on the Federal Government to immediately attend to the industrial action embarked upon by lecturers in public universities to halt an imminent collapse of Nigeria’s education sector.
The…
ASUU strike: NANS warns political parties against holding presidential primaries in Abuja
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) says no political party must hold any presidential primary in Abuja until the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) ends.
NANS President, Sunday…
2022 UTME: JAMB Directs Candidates To Begin Printing Notification Slips
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Saturday, directed all candidates sitting for its 2022 examination to begin printing of their notification slips for the exercise.
The board gave the directive in a statement,…
Caleb University: Popular Philanthropist Presents N5m Each, Automatic Employment To Best Graduates
In line with fulfilling his mammoth pledge made to Caleb University, serial philanthropist and Chairman of Atlantic International Refinery and Petrochemical Ltd., Akintoye Akindele has gifted N5million each, automatic employment to the best…
S*x scandal: Lagos govt reopens Chrisland Schools
The Babajide Sanwo-Olu administration in Lagos State has ordered the reopening of Chrisland Schools ahead of the April 25 resumption of primary and secondary schools in the state.
Recall that the Lagos State Ministry of Education closed…
Utah College course where students watch p*rn with professors exposed
Westminster College, a private college in Salt Lake City, Utah, is presently trending on the internet for the unlikeliest of reasons: porn!
The 147-year-old institution comprises four schools: the School of Arts and Sciences, the Bill…
Nigerians back Lagos govt over shutting of Chrisland Schools
The decision of the Lagos State Government to shut down Chrisland Schools across the state amid alleged concealment of the "rape" of a 10-year-old female student has attracted the support of many Nigerians.
Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu's…
Nigerians demand independent investigation into Chrisland School “rape” incident
Nigerians have taken to social media to call on the authorities to launch a probe into the circumstances surrounding how a 10-year-old student of Chrisland School, Victoria Garden City (VGC), identified as Julian, was allegedly raped,…
Chrisland School under fire over alleged cover-up of 10-year-old female student’s…
Chrisland School, one of the most popular private schools in Nigeria, is presently in the eye of the storm for allegedly covering-up the rape of a 10-year-old female student.
A Nigerian music executive, Ubi Franklin took to Twitter on…
FEC Approves Creation of 12 New Private Universities Across Nigeria
The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved memo to give provisional operating licences to corporate bodies seeking to establish 12 new private universities across Nigeria.
Seyi Makinde Charged by Oyo Lawmaker To Reopen 25 Closed Schools
The lawmaker representing Oyo East/West at the State House of Assembly, Hon. Isiaka Kazeem Tunde, charged Gov. Makinde to re-open schools.
The Implications of Nigeria’s Improving Internet for Education
Post-2000, every country requires high-quality online infrastructure to compete on a global scale. This has long been the opinion of mainstream Nigerian politicians like Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, and it's an attitude that many maintain…
Sowore carpets LASU over Tinubu’s 2023 campaign posters inside convocation hall
Founder of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore has berated the management of Lagos State University (LASU) over a 2023 presidential campaign poster of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu pasted inside the institution’s convocation hall.
Sowore, a 2019…
Tinubu donates N1bn to LASU
National Leader of All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has donated a Centre of Leadership Development worth one billion naira to Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo.
LASU Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello,…
Education and its benefits to society – why it is important to educate people around the world
Non-profit organizations and individuals travel to poor countries to build schools. Parents spend thousands of dollars to give their children the education they think they need. Students choose to apply to universities even after the…
Revitalising indigenous languages using digital activism
Estimates from linguists show that we are living in a time of mass language extinction, with one language going extinct every two weeks.
Conservative estimates also suggest that more than half of the world’s languages will become extinct…
YABATECH approves cut-off marks for 2021/2022 admission
The Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) has approved the cut-off marks for the 2021/2022 Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) for its National Diploma programme.
The Deputy Registrar of the…
ASUU strike: LAUTECH students give lecturers 72 hours to pull out of strike
The Students Union body of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, has given the LAUTECH chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) 72 hours to withdraw from the ongoing strike.
This is contained…
Must every state own a university?
Rivers, Enugu, Imo and Edo states took the lead in the establishment of state universities.
The Rivers State University of Science and Technology was established in 1980, the same year the old Anambra State established Anambra State…
Reps seek automatic employment for first class graduates
The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Government to consider automatic employment for first class graduates of Nigerian universities and other institutions.
This followed the adoption of a motion by Rep. Emeka Chinedu…
Breaking News: ASUU Extends Strike Action by Eight Weeks
The one-month warning strike announced by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on the 14th of February expired today. However, the federal government of Nigeria and the union are still yet to reach a consensus. According to ASUU…
ASUU strikes: Nigerians tired, youths frustrated, losing interest in education – Survey
The statistics are frightening! In the last two decades or so, university teachers have gone on nationwide strikes 16 times covering a cumulative period of 51 months.
Local chapters of their umbrella body, the Academic Staff Union of…
ASUU blasts Pantami, NITDA DG over claims UTAS failed integrity test
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has denied alleged failure of the integrity test on the University Transparency and Accountability Solution (UTAS), by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).
ASUU…
Court orders Nigerian varsity to reinstate lecturer sacked for misconduct
The National Industrial Court has ordered the Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola, to with immediate effect reinstate a lecturer, Dr Saidu Adamu.
The court also ordered that Adamu should be reinstated to his former position as…
Strike: ASUU payment platform, UTAS, failed integrity test, FG insists
The Federal Government says it is still waiting for the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to upgrade and return to it the Universities Transparency Accountability Solution (UTAS), which was said to have failed integrity test.…