By Ishaq Zaki The Emir of Kaura Namoda in Zamfara, Alhaji Sanusi Ahmad-Asha, has urged collective action to improve girl-child education across the state. The emir made this appeal on Monday in Kaura Namoda while receiving a delegation from Media and Publicity Consult (MPC), who visited him for advocacy. TheContinue Reading
By Funmilayo Adeyemi The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has rescheduled the date for the 2025 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from April 5 to April 10. This is contained in a weekly bulletin of the board made available to newsmen in Abuja on Monday. According to theContinue Reading
By Henry Oladele An educationist, Dr Tokunbo Yakubu-Oyinloye, has called on the federal and state governments to establish more schools to accommodate more out-of-school children across the country. Yakubu-Oyinloye, Director, Federal Education Quality Assurance Service (FEQAS), made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) inContinue Reading
By Christian Njoku Mr Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), said that President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda is revitalising Nigeria’s university education system. Wike said this on Saturday in Calabar, at the 37th convocation ceremony of the University of Calabar (UniCal), where he received an HonoraryContinue Reading
By Christian Njoku President Bola Tinubu on Saturday inaugurated six projects at the University of Calabar (UniCal), marking the institution’s 37th convocation and 50th anniversary celebrations. Represented by Prof. Abdullahi Ribadu, Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, Tinubu urged prudent fund management for the development of additional infrastructure inContinue Reading
By Funmilayo Adeyemi The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has announced that all full-time Higher National Diploma (HND) graduates will now be mobilised for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). The resolution of the long-standing issue regarding their mobilisation was announced by the Director of Press and Public RelationsContinue Reading
By Martha Agas The Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) has distributed learning aids, including books, school bags, and writing materials, to 1,300 students of Government Secondary School (GSS), Wuse Zone 3, Abuja. This event marked the official inauguration of the NCS’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) unit, Customs Cares. The News AgencyContinue Reading
By Millicent Ifeanyichukwu Trinity University, Yaba, Lagos State, produced 28 first class students in the 2023/2024 academic session, the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Clement Kolawole, has said. Kolawole said at a news conference in Lagos on Monday that the 28 students were among the 122 studentsContinue Reading
By Funmilayo Adeyemi The Regent Secondary School, Abuja, has been named the first and only secondary school in Nigeria and West Africa to be rated ‘outstanding’ across all nine categories by British Schools Overseas (BSO) inspectors. The inspection, commissioned by the UK Department for Education (DfE), places Regent Secondary School,Continue Reading
By Aderonke Ojediran Some Lagos residents have expressed worry at frequent change of teachers in private primary schools, saying it is detrimental to the emotional stability and overall learning experience of pupils. In interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday, they said that incessant change of teachersContinue Reading
