Tag: schools
State spends N3bn in schools rehabilitation
The Niger State Government says it has spent N3 billion to rehabilitate nine secondary schools under the first phase of…
State Assembly moves to return history teaching
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed a resolution to revive teaching and learning of history as a…
Schools To Teach Maths In Indigenous Languages
The Federal Government says primary and secondary schools in the country will soon start teaching Mathematics and Science subjects in…
Rehabilitation of schools, other infrastructure destroyed by Boko Haram ongoing
The Executive Director, Victims Support Fund (VSF), Dr Sunday Ochoche, has said that rehabilitation of schools and other infrastructure destroyed…
Police assure Enugu schools adequate security
The Police Command in Enugu State says it will continue to provide adequate security to schools in the state for…
Schools to establish cancer awareness clubs
The Parent Teachers Association (PTA), Plateau chapter, has urged authorities of primary and secondary schools in the state to create…
Kidnapping: Ambode orders security beef up in schools
*Award Contracts for Renovation of 174 Classrooms, 8 New Blocks Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode on Thursday ordered security agencies…
Lagos decries shortage of social workers in schools
The Lagos State Government has decried shortage of social workers manning public schools in the state as the 200 social…
Sokoto Govt donates N35m materials to schools, mosques
Sokoto State Government on Sunday donated 80 wireless communication equipment, 10,000 mudus (means of measurement) and 8,000 rubber mats worth…
Gov Ajimobi shuts 5 schools again over protests
The Oyo State Government on Thursday shut five schools indefinitely over the protests on cancellation of automatic promotion in public…
Lagos moves to upgrade schools in slum areas
The Lagos State Government at the weekend said it would commence total upgrade of schools in the State, especially in…
Sokoto Govt. closes 20 illegal schools
Sokoto State Government on Friday announced the closure of 20 illegal primary and secondary schools across the state. This is…
Kwara Govt warns proprietors against re-opening shut schools
The Kwara State Government has warned proprietors of schools that were shut down against re-opening them without meeting set standard.…
Workers’ strike paralyses Ogun, hospitals, schools, courts shut
Abiodun Onafuye/Abeokuta Activities across Ogun State, southwest Nigeria, were paralysed Monday following workers’ strike in the state. Civil servants at…
Over 9,000 schools for Milo Basketball tourney
Taiwo Adelu A record entry of more than 9, 000 schools in Nigeria will fight for honours in the 18th…
Banks, hotels, schools sealed over tax evasion
The Anambra State Government in eastern Nigeria has sealed off at least 35 buildings in the industrial town of Nnewi…
Lagos Deputy Gov welcomes teachers, students back to schools
As public schools in Lagos State resume for the second term of the 2015/2016 academic session Monday, January 11, 2016,…
LASG to upgrade public schools
The State Government has disclosed that it would commit more resources to the upgrading of public schools infrastructure in the…
Over 400 schools in Borno reopen after 18 months
Hundreds of schools in northeast Nigeria have reopened for the first time in a year and a half, though many…
Ogun shuts schools, markets for HID Awolowo’s burial
The Ogun government has directed that all markets and public schools in the Remo Zone of the state be closed…
Over 1,000 schools destroyed by Boko Haram in 2015 – UN
Boko Haram Islamists have destroyed an estimated 1,100 schools this year in their stronghold region surrounding Lake Chad, the United…
80% of NYSC members posted to schools – Coordinator
The Coordinator of National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) in Sokoto State, Mr Thomas Yamma, said more than 80 per cent…
Wike warns new council bosses, inaugurates governing councils of schools
Okafor Ofiebor/Port Harcourt Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has warned that he will not hesitate to sack the Caretaker Committee…
Chess federation to introduce chess to 12,000 school children
Licon Adeyemi, President, Nigeria Chess Federation (NCF), says the federation plans to introduce 12,000 school children to the game in…
Parents appeal to Borno govt to re-open closed schools
Parents in Borno on Monday appealed to the State Government to re-open Public Secondary Schools shut down in March 2014,…
Schools reopen as Liberia turns page on Ebola virus
Children began returning to school in Liberia on Monday after lessons were delayed for months by the deadly Ebola outbreak,…
Global Outrage Over School Massacre
The bloody siege of an elite army high school Tuesday by Taliban gunmen, which killed at least 141 students and…
Boko Haram: Gombe orders closure of schools
Gombe State Government on Wednesday ordered the closure of all public and private schools in the state, a day after…
Ebola: FCT distributes preventive items to schools
The FCT Administration has commenced the distribution of preventive items against the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) as directed by the…
Ebola: Lagos To Provide 600 Schools With Pipe-Borne Water
As part of measures to curtail the spread of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, among students in the state,…