A dilapidated Methodist Public Nursery and Primary School, Papa Ajao, Mushin, Lagos State Photo: Eno-Abasi Sunday Public schools, particularly, primary and secondary schools, are facing inadequate infrastructure, and poor teaching and learning environment challenge. With less financial resources committed to these educational centres, the future of education is at stake. But alumni associations in the […]
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Call-to-bar Some final-year law students in the Nigerian public universities have cried out over the possibility of not being mobilised for the Nigerian Law School in 2022 due to the ongoing strike action of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Lamenting on Tuesday in separate chats, some of them said their final year results had […]
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The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says 85 per cent of Nigerian children between the ages of 1 and 14 experience violent discipline in schools, with nearly 1 in 3 children experiencing severe physical punishment. Its Chief of Education, Saadhna Panday-Soobrayan, disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday, at a two-day National Awareness Creation Meeting on […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has explained that it is the responsibility of tertiary institutions to decide and determine their admission cut-off mark and not JAMB as widely believed by candidates. The Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, gave the explanation in a statement on Monday in Abuja. The Board […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its strike by another four weeks to give the Federal Government more time to meet its demands. The union took the decision at the end of its National Executive Council meeting at its national secretariat in Abuja on Sunday. Quoting a statement by its President, Prof […]
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Award-winning novelist, Chimamanda Adichie, has faulted claims that she was related to a 40-year-old lady, Nkiru Okoye, who was murdered in Ogbunike, Oyi Local Government Area of Anambra State. The deceased, a wife of a mechanical engineer, Emenike Okoye, was reportedly beaten to death by her brother-in-law, George Okoye, over the ownership of some disputed […]
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Senate President Ahmad Lawan and House of Representatives Speaker Femi Gbajabiamila No fewer than 63 bills have been tabled before the Senate and the House of Representatives for the creation of new universities, polytechnics, colleges of education since the beginning of shutdown of activities in public tertiary institutions in the country in 2022, investigation has […]
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Oyo State Government has conducted the 2022 Competitive Entrance Examination for 4,545 candidates seeking admission into the Seven Science Schools and Igbo Elerin Grammar School in the State. A statement by the Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Dr. Wasiu Olatubosun, said that his counterpart for Education, Science and Technology, Barr. Rahman Abiodun Abdu-Raheem, who […]
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JAMB students The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), during its policy meeting held on July 21, pegged the minimum cut-off score for admission into the country’s universities at 140 for the 2022/2023 academic session. It put that of Polytechnics at 120, and Colleges of Education at 100. Two years back, it had approved 160 […]
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Oyo State Governor Seyi Makinde Oyo State Government has reinstated 129 public primary school teachers, unlawfully sacked by the previous administration. The Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr. Nureni Aderemi Adeniran stated this on Wednesday, while congratulating the teachers, according to a statement by the board’s Media Team Head, Olamide Adeniji. Adeniran […]
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