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By Joseph Erunke — Abuja The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, Thursday, tasked the federal to raise its yearly funding for Research and Development (RD) to $1 billion. This was as it hailed President Muhammadu Buhari for his recent increase of the research grant from N5 ... Read more

By Dennis Agbo SOME Parents, mostly of private schools in Enugu state, have raised objections on the modalities set out for resumption of primary and secondary schools in the state. The state ministry of Education had on Wednesday announced Monday, September 28 as date for reopening of schools closed at wake of Coronavirus pandemic in ... Read more

Tunbosun Ogundare | Lagos PRIVATE school owners in Lagos State say they have no plan to increase school fees anytime soon as students and pupils return to class for the 2020/2021 academic session. They have also said there is no plan to give students automatic promotion to the next class. Schools in Lagos State reopened for academic ... Read more

Federal Government will this Friday kick off the 60th independence anniversary with a public lecture and Jumat service at the National Mosque, Abuja. Nigeria got her independence on October 1, 1960, from Britain, which amalgamated the Northern and Southern protectorates in 1914. According to Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji La ... Read more

The Rector,Federal Polytechnic, Ile-Oluji, Ondo State, Prof. Emmanuel Fasakin has said 12 of the academic programmes being offered in the institution have received accreditation from the National Board for Technical Education. The accredited programmes include, Accountancy, Architecture and Architecture Technology, Computer Engineering, Computer ... Read more

Prof. Reuben Jiya Kolo of the Department of Water Resources, Aquaculture and Fisheries Technology, Federal University of Technology Minna (FUTMinna), is the new Vice Chancellor of Crawford University, Igbesa, in Ogun State. His appointment, according to a letter signed by the Chairman, Board of Trustees of the university, Prof. Peter Okebukola, ... Read more

The Federal University of Technology, (FUT) Minna has solicited the support of the former Military Administrator of Kano State, Colonel Sani Bello (rtd), to fund the construction of its research farm. Its Vice Chancellor, Prof. Abdullahi Bala, said the research farm would help to curtail the incessant clashes between herders and farmers. Bala ... Read more

Timothy Onoja with stage name Timikoda is one of those music artistes in the Nigerian music industry, who believes that education is most ideal to complement one’s music career. As an afrobeat lover who draws inspiration from life, Timikoda is resilience about personal development. He is currently taking production and sound engineering ... Read more

Abia Government on Thursday announced that primary and secondary schools in the state are to resume on September 28 to complete the third term of the 2019/2020 academic session. Daily Times Nigeria gathered the Commissioner for Information, Chief John Okiyi-Kalu, made this known in a statement he issued in Umuahia on the outcome of the State Executive Council (EXCO) meeting. Okiyi-Kalu ... Read more

Tony Okafor, Awka The Chairman of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University chapter, Anambra State, Prof Okey Aniebo, has alleged that his life and job are threatened. He stated this when the ASUU zonal leadership led by Prof Ike Odumegwu visited the University. He said he had got threats to his ... Read more