By Funmilayo Adeyemi The Federal Government has clarified that King’s College, Lagos, has not been sold or privatised, saying it retains legal ownership of the 117-year-old institution. The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja on Friday, to clarify the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) concessionContinue Reading

By Jumoke Olaitan The Federal Government has mandated the National Teachers’ Institute (NTI), Kaduna, to coordinate the professionalisation of 250,000 serving teachers without formal teaching qualifications. This is contained in a statement issued on Friday in Abuja by Dr Iyela Ajaji, Sub-Committee chairman on Media and Communication, Accelerated Teacher ProfessionalisationContinue Reading

By Joan Nwagwu The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to resume its suspended nationwide strike over unpaid salaries and poor implementation of the 2025 agreement. ASUU president, Christopher Piwuna, disclosed this in a statement issued to newsmen on Friday in Abuja, after the union’s emergency National ExecutiveContinue Reading

By Lucy Osuizigbo-Okechukwu The First Lady, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, on Thursday inaugurated a Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Experience Centre at Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra. Tinubu, accompanied by Gov. Chukwuma Soludo, his wife, Dr Nonye Soludo, and other dignitaries, described the facility as a majorContinue Reading

By Philip Yatai Wisewisdom Charity Foundation has distributed school bags and other learning materials to 100 pupils of the Local Education Authority (LEA) Primary School, City Gate, Durumi II, Abuja. The items were distributed on Thursday, during an outreach tagged, “Building Tomorrow Today: One Bag, One Child”. The convenner, DrContinue Reading

By Jumoke Olaitan The National Parent Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) has commended the Federal Government for commencing the recruitment of Parent-Teacher Association (PTA) teachers into the formal teaching system. ‎Prof. Boniface Odeh, President of NAPTAN, gave the commendation in a statement issued on Wednesday in Abuja. ‎Odeh said theContinue Reading