Tag: education
LASU Crisis: Lawmaker Appeals For Peace
The Chairman, Lagos State House of Assembly Committee on Education, Wahab Alawiye-King, has called on the management of the Lagos…
Hip hop artist Damoche, LASU student shot dead
Bayo Adetu Upcoming hip hop music act and a student of the Lagos State University, LASU, Olaniyan Damilola, popularly known…
Why We Have Substandard Films
Yoruba film director, producer and actor, Monsuru Obadina, popularly known as Fala, tells Moyosola Amoran about his career, the movie…
Virginity Test: Doctor declares school principal sane
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta Revd. Olufunke Aladeojebi, the suspended Principal of Ajuwon High School, Ajuwon- Akute in Ifo local government area…
CBN bankrolls multi-billion Naira project in UNILAG
In furtherance of its social intervention policy, the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has moved a notch in executing its…
VC laments poor academic performance
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN The Vice Chancellor of Nigeria’s premier University of Ibadan (UI), Professor Isaac Adewole today lamented the high rate…
NOUN graduates lament challenges
Some graduands of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) on Saturday expressed dissatisfaction at the delay in completing programmes…
Ekiti Varsity Students Petition Fayemi
About 500 Part time students of Nigeria’s Ekiti State University, formerly University of Ado Ekiti have petitioned the state governor,…
Free uniforms for Osun students, computers on the way
Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Nigeria’s State of Osun on Friday distributed school uniforms worth N800 million to students in the…
LASTMA, KAI Enlighten Traders
Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, LASTMA, and the Kick Against Indiscipline, KAI, Brigade, have embarked on a career evaluation programme…
Education Minister Tasks Teachers On Performance
Minister of Education, Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai has called on both primary and Junior Secondary School Teachers to give their…
47,289 Nigerian candidates cheat in WASSCE
The West African Examination Council revealed today that 47,289 candidates of the 413,266 that sat for the November-December West African…
More students pass WASCE in Nigeria’s capital
Students in the FCT in 2012 scored 38.39 per cent credit pass in five WASCE subjects, including English and Mathematics,…
ASUU ready for dialogue with Amaechi
The Rivers State University of Science and Technology ASUU chapter said on Wednesday in Port Harcourt that it was ready…
Gunmen raid female hostel of Nigerian varsity
Gunmen on Wednesday raided the female hostel of Paul University, Awka in Anambra state, eastern Nigeria and dispossessed the students…
UNIABUJA shut after protests by students
The University of Abuja has been closed indefinitely following two days of student protest over the non-accreditation of some faculties…
Jonathan votes N3b for research in Nigerian varsities
GBENRO ADESINA/IBADAN In a bid to improve the quality of staffing in the higher institutions and encourage staff development for…
‘Sports And Education Should Go Together’
Team Nigeria’s 200m athlete to the last London 2012 Olympic Games, Noah Akwu has advised the Federal Government to work…
Thugs beat teachers after Oba’s grand child flogged
JETHRO IBILEKE, Benin Teachers of the Federal Government Girls Secondary School in Benin City, have threatened to down tools over…
Kano, Ogun states go tough on illegal schools
The Ogun state government has announced plans to clamp down on illegal private nursery and primary schools operating in the…
Fashola endows research council
Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State on Monday inaugurated the state Research and Development Council with an initial working grant…
Governor’s wife offers scholarship to 30 kids
Omolewa Ahmed, wife of Nigeria’s Kwara State Governor, on Monday said that she would take full responsibility for the education…
MAPOLY expels 14 students, proscribes union
No fewer than 14 students of the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeokuta, Ogun, have been expelled for their roles in the…
Punctuality earns Edo school boy laptop computer
A 12-year-old Junior Secondary School student, Godbless Raphael, on Tuesday won the Edo Governor’s award for being the first to…
Kano State sponsors students abroad
Nigeria’s Kano State Government has sponsored 25 indigenes of the state to study Marine Engineering in India and the United States.A…
Ebonyi buys 200 computers for e-library
Mr Dan Ibiam, the Director, Ebonyi Library Board, on Friday in Abakaliki said the State Government had concluded plans to…
Lagos Takes Technical Education To New Level
With the establishment of Samsung Engineering Academy designed to train and retrain graduates from the state technical colleges and the…
Taraba University gets funds from councils
The Bureau for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs in Nigeria’s Taraba State has approved the remittance of three percent of…
Ogun Govt Outlaws Hawking By Kids
The Ogun Government is to outlaw hawking by children from November. Mrs. Elizabeth Sonubi, the Commissioner for Women Affairs and…
Fashola Offers Scholarships To Vocational Centre Students
Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has offered annual scholarships to students of the Nigeria Society for the Blind…