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The Regional Training and Research Institute for Distance and Open Learning (RETRIDOL), has commended the University of Ilorin Centre for Open and Distance Learning (CODL), for its readiness for accreditation by the NUC. According to the University of Ilorin Bulletin issued on Monday, the RETRIDOL Director, Prof. Patrick Eya, gave the ... Read more

Bayelsa State Governor, Douye Diri, has directed the re-opening of all public and private tertiary, secondary and primary schools in the state, beginning from Monday October 5. The state Committee on Safe Re-Opening of Schools announced this in Yenagoa on Monday after a meeting with Diri at the Government House, Yenagoa. The Commissioner ... Read more

Public and private schools in Enugu State have resumed academic activities after six months of lockdown, following COVID-19 pandemic. A News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) correspondent, who monitored the resumption in some schools in Enugu metropolis, on Monday, observed that public and private schools visited had commenced academic activities. The ... Read more

The outgoing Vice Chancellor of the Kayode Soremekun, has warned against hasty reopening of the nation’s tertiary institutions, arguing that Covid-19 is still very much alive in Nigeria. The Vice Chancellor said this in Akure, the Ondo State capital, on Saturday, at the launch of a book, Campus Security Management, Insight from the ... Read more

Mrs Zainab Mabini-Adesanya, Creative Head of Zatem Consultancy Services.Zatem Consultancy Services will, on Saturday, October 3, hold a conference termed Literary Connect 2.0, that will see administrators, teachers, special needs tutors and other coming together. A statement by Zainab Mabini-Adesanya, Creative Head of Zatem Consultancy Services, ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to sanction lecturers in Rivers State-owned universities if they resume lectures, Daily Times Nigeria has learnt. According to reports, the ASUU National President, Abiodun Ogunyemi, stated this while reacting to the directive of the Rivers State Government that tertiary institutions, secondary and vocational schools to reopen on ... Read more

A kindergarten teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children in an act of revenge against a colleague that left one toddler dead. A court in the central Chinese province of Henan said Wang Yun put sodium nitrite into porridge being prepared for her colleague’s students, sickening 25. The attack took ... Read more

Bola Bamigbola, Osogbo A student of the University of Jos, Oyelakin Oyekunle, has emerged overall winner of Tunde Olatunji COVID-19 essay competition. At the presentation ceremony held in Osogbo, Oyekunle went home with a laptop while the best ten entries at the competition received certificate of participation. Speaking during the presentation of the prizes, the promoter of the ... Read more

Chima Azubuike, Gombe THE Gombe State Government on Monday dissolved councils in tertiary institutions in the state. Confirming the dissolution of six tertiary institutions, the Commissioner for Higher Education, Meshack Lauco, said the councils of the various institutions were installed by the previous administration. Lauco, who disclosed ... Read more

Abiodun Nejo, Ado Ekiti The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof. Kayode Soremekun, has called on stakeholders to rally round public universities by assisting them with the needed financial and material support which will aid their development. Soremekun, who said education, particularly university education, was financially ... Read more