Gist News

Nwafor Sunday Following the N2.67 billion school feeding money the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, Monday, said it uncovered in private bank accounts, the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, Tuesday, queried the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social ... Read more

Lecturers of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, COOU, Igbariam, Anambra State on Tuesday said they have resumed academic duties in the university, and would not join the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the institution on its recently announced strike. ASUU, led by Prof Okey Aniebo had two weeks ago ... Read more

The Executive Chairman of the Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Prof Femi Akinwumi has stressed the readiness of the board to collaborate with the National Orientation Agency(NOA) in the “Occupy their hearts programme” under which pupils in schools are encouraged to imbibe the Core National Values and respect the ... Read more

Kayode FayemiBy Rotimi Ojomoyela — Ado-Ekiti Ekiti State gets new University as the state’s House of Assembly on Tuesday passed the bill for the upgrading of the State College of Education to University of Education, Science and Technology. The bill was passed through unanimous resolution at Tuesday’s plenary in Ado-Ekiti ... Read more

Katsina State government has approved 5th October 2020 for the reopening of both public and private secondary and primary schools across the state. The commissioner of education, Professor Badamasi Lawal Charanchi disclosed this yesterday while briefing newsmen and stakeholders in the education sector of the state on the government ... Read more

Kwara State Government on Tuesday disclosed that it has set aside the sum of N135,500,000 under the Kwara State Social Investment Programme (KWASSIP) as interest-free loan to 1,119 private school owners across the state. “KWASSIP has engaged with the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools (NAPPS) in Kwara State after they reached out for assistance to cushion the effects ... Read more

Olaide Oyelude, Katsina Primary and secondary schools in Katsina State are to reopen on October 5, 2020. The state Commissioner for Education, Badamasi Lawal, made the disclosure in Katsina on Tuesday after a meeting with heads of the departments in his ministry and that of the State Universal Basic Education Board. He said Governor ... Read more

Leke Baiyewu, Abuja THE House of Representatives has asked the Federal Government to immediately release take-off grants to universities, some of which were established decades ago. The House particularly mandated the Federal Government to “as a matter of urgency release the take-off grant meant for the University of Uyo.” The ... Read more

By Emmanuel Elebeke The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has inaugurated a 15-member Evaluation Committee for the assessment of the 2020 Telecommunications based research from Academics in the Nigerian tertiary institutions. The Committee is head by Prof. Mu’azu Bashir, a ... Read more

Following the demands for a day school amidst maintaining the school’s success history and all-round excellence, Nigerian education sector got a boost when on September 28, 2020, the Corona Schools’ Trust Council unveiled the Corona Day Secondary School, Lekki, Lagos. It was an epic making occasion in the life of the 65-year-old ... Read more