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A lecturer at the University of Ibadan has petitioned the governing council of the institution over the election of members of the community as part of the Joint Council Senate Committee of the institution in the selection of its new Vice-Chancellor. DAILY POST gathered that the tenure of the incumbent Vice-Chancellor, Professor Idowu ... Read more

Adeyinka Adedipe The Edo State Government has postponed the resumption of primary and secondary schools across the state to Tuesday, October 6, 2020. In a statement, the Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr. Crusoe Osagie, said primary and secondary schools in Edo State would resume for the ... Read more

Tunde Ajaja The trustees, executive and members of Yewa Old Students Association have appealed to the Lagos State Government to consider restoring the senior secondary arm of Yewa High School in the Agege area of the state. They said the school had a pedigree of producing some of the best results in the state in the 80s but that the ... Read more

OLALEYE ALUKO The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria has released a new syllabus for its professional examination. The institute said on Saturday that the new syllabus which takes effect from March 2021 was developed in line with its resolve to “continue to produce future-ready chartered accountants with skills and competences ... Read more

Olaleye Aluko and Grace Edema The West African Examinations Council has said that it has a 45-day timeline from its last paper to release the results of the 2020 Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination. This indicates that the results should be released by late October. The council told one of our correspondents on Saturday that it ... Read more

The Governing Council of the University of Abuja has approved the promotion of 10 members of the academic staff of the university. Six of them were promoted to the rank of professor while the four others moved up to the rank of associate professor. “Those newly promoted to the rank of Professor include Dr Wasiu Olugbenga Gabadeen ... Read more

THE immediate past Acting Registration of National Examination Council (NECO), Mr Abubakar Gana, has said that he was miffed by an alleged false report by an online platform that he siphoned the sum of N368,875 million from Council during his tenure in an acting capacity. According to him, the online report suggested that the money was ... Read more

The Women in Energy Network (WIEN) has commended the President, Nigeria Society of Engineers (NSE), Babagana Mohammed for his commitment to the education of the girl-child. The President of WIEN, Mrs. Funmi Ogbue in a congratulatory letter, reacting to the presentation of cheque for APWEN’s Engr. Babagana Mohammed Engineering Scholarship ... Read more

Niger State Government has announced the reopening of all basic and post-basic classes of private and public institutions for the third term of 2019/2020 academic session on Oct. 4. Hajiya Hannatu Salihu, the Niger State Commissioner for Education, announced this during a news conference in Minna on Monday, NAN reports. Salihu said that the ... Read more

The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier-General Shuaibu Ibrahim has assured young Nigerians eagerly waiting to be mobilized for the National Service to exercise patience. According to the DG, efforts are ongoing with the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 on safe Orientation Camp resumption, saying that NYSC ... Read more