A Nigerian, Onyeka Chukwudozie, has been offered six doctorate scholarship offers from universities in Australia and California. The Nigerian, who announced this via his LinkedIn account, said he had hawked mangoes and drinks in markets in the past. According to him, the scholarship offers came after he had been rejected by universities over the years. […]
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First-year pupils arrive at a primary school for the new semester in Shenyang in China’s northeastern Liaoning province on August 30, 2021. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT Beijing on Monday banned written exams for six- and seven-year-olds, as part of sweeping education reforms aimed at relieving pressure on pupils and parents in […]
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A former Minister of Education, Dr Obiageli Ezekwesili, and five other global figures have joined the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs as senior fellows. Mr Peter Salovey, President of Yale University, United States of America, said this in a statement on Sunday. Salovey also welcomed the institution’s 19 returning fellows. Salovey listed the school’s […]
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The Girl with Louding Voice by Abi Dare; The Son of the House by Cheluchi Onyemelukwe-Onuobia and Colours of Hatred by Obinna Udenwe have been shortlisted as finalists for the 2021 The Nigeria Prize for Literature worth $100,000. Chairman of the Advisory Board for the Nigeria Prize for Literature, Prof Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo, made the announcement […]
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Full List The University of Ibadan, Covenant University, and Obafemi Awolowo University have been ranked top in Nigeria by Webometrics in its latest rating. Analysis of the latest ranking showed that no Nigerian university was among the top 1,000 in the world. Though ranked first in Nigeria, UI rated 1,196 in the world. Private-owned covenant […]
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Despite the barrage of criticisms against some of the choices of his appointees, President Muhammadu Buhari appointed a few round pegs in round holes, one of whom is 66-year-old Is-haq Oloyede, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Jurisprudence who brought innovations to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board since his first appointment as Registrar on […]
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The Education Rights Campaign has lamented the death of a student activist, Nurudeen Alawonle, popularly known as Omomeewa, some hours after he was invited to face a disciplinary panel set up by the Lagos State University. Alowonle was shot dead on Wednesday, according to a statement by the LASU Students’ Union on Thursday. It was […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed the immediate former Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Is-haq Oloyede. He also renewed the appointment of the immediate former Executive Secretaries of the National Universities Commission (NUC) and the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Abubakar Rasheed and Hamid Boboyi, among the top executive officers of […]
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By Banji Ayoola Oyo State Government has refuted claims that the State has not accessed its N715 million counterpart funds for the Universal Basic Education Commission/SUBEB Year 2020 Intervention Projects. While reacting in Ibadan to allegations that the state government has failed to pay its counterpart fund to access the projects, the Executive Chairman, Oyo […]
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