Category: Education

The Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ile-Oluji, Prof. Emmanuel Adedayo Fasakin, has been honoured with the 2018 Africa’s Distinguished Personality Award as the “Vanguard of Africa Development” by the Trans-Africa Students’ Initiative. A statement by the institution’s Head, Information, Protocol and Passages, Mr Sanmi Enigbokan, said that the occasion held in the Council Chambers of the […]

THE founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti (ABUAD), Chief Afe Babalola (SAN) is unhappy that the Federal Government is flouting the directive of the United Nations Education and Socio-Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) that 26 per cent of its budget should be allocated to the funding of education. The legal icon, who spoke at the sixth […]

A human right activist, Femi Falana, has reproached the 36 states in Nigeria for failing to access access the N86.5 billion lying fallow in the in the Universal Basic Education (UBE) Account in the Central Bank as at April 30. Falana, a senior advocate of Nigeria, said the unaccessed matching grant was the reason why […]

– says only 157,000 teachers now certified to teach – 2 million teachers registered so far The Federal Government has said that only 157,000 teachers have passed the prescribed professional qualifying examination conducted by the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria and issued with licences to practice in Nigeria. Minister of State for Education, Prof Anthony […]

Oyo State government is worried by the increasing rate of out-of-school children in Nigeria, especially in the State. It, therefore, organised through the State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), and in collaboration with United Nations Children’s Education Fund (UNICEF), Akure office, a two-day intensive policy dialogue with stakeholders. The policy dialogue was to provide a […]

The zonal coordinator of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Ibadan Zone, Dr. Ade Adejumo, on Tuesday alleged that the Federal Government was making attempts to make students of federal universities pay a minimum of N350,000 as tuition fee. Adejumo said this while addressing members of the Correspondents Chapel in Ibadan. He said it was […]

Candidates busy during one of the sessions of the Post-UTME exercise in AAUA …on Thursday. Inset: The DVC and Chairman of the exercise, Prof Olugbenga Ige (2ndL) pointing out some salient points to the VC, Prof. Igbekele Ajibefun, when he visited the venue No fewer than 10,000 candidates seeking admission into Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba […]

Authorities of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, Ondo State, have denied a story making the rounds on social and other media that it meted out sanctions and punishments on members of staff who submitted memoranda and petitions to the Visitation Panel constituted to look into the University’s activities by the state government. A statement by […]