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Some private schools in Niger State have insisted that they would resume for first term against the directive of the state government. The government, in line with the decision taken during a meeting of northern Commissioners for Education, had declared that schools in the North are to resume for the third term. At a news briefing with ... Read more

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the payment of stipends to Bachelor of Education students, as well as granting them automatic employment after graduation. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who represented President Buhari at the event to mark World Teachers Day in Abuja, said this is now a Federal Government policy. The President ... Read more

A 500-level Chemical Engineering student of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, Abosede Oyinlola, has emerged the winner of the 60th Independence essay competition organised by the Osun State Government. The 23-year-old student was rewarded with a laptop, a sum of N300,000 and a plot of land, while Stella Ademuyin of Adeleke University, Ede, who came second, was rewarded with ... Read more

The Chairman, Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Lagos State Branch, Mr Adedoyin Adesina on Monday, commended President Muhammadu Buhari’s approval of new salary structure for teachers nationwide. Buhari, in his message to mark this year’s World Teachers’ Day in Lagos, directed the immediate review of teachers’ wages nationwide ... Read more

Maryam Adaeze Musa, a 23-year-old 400-level English student of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, is appealing to kind Nigerians, philanthropists, and organisations for financial assistance to fund an urgent kidney transplant. Maryam, who is an aspiring On-Air Personality, OAP, ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University, LASU Ojo, Professor Olarenwaju Fagbohun(SAN), in commemoration of World Teachers’ Day, has praised the roles played by teachers and other academics in the recent honours and accolades the institution had received. Recall that LASU was ... Read more

Sokoto State Governor, Rt. Honourable Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has directed schools in Sokoto to reopen beginning from Monday, October 11. This is following a meeting with relevant stakeholders in Sokoto State and further intensive deliberations, after which he directed that on Monday, the 2020/2021 academic session for Basic and Secondary Schools ... Read more

The Lawmaker representing Adavi/Okehi federal constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. (Engr) Joseph Asuku Bello has distributed chairs/tables, chalks, magic boards, sanitary dispensers, and other educational materials to schools as well as empowered thousands of students with school bags, text books, school sandals, note books, dictionaries, calculators, mathematical sets, and ... Read more

October 5 of every year marks a special day in the world and our development as the United Nations Organisation has set it aside to recognize and appreciate the unquantifiable efforts of key nation-builders, the teachers. And thus tagging the day- World Teachers Day. The roles of the teachers in any nation of the world cannot be over emphasised as they are indisputably a major stakeholder in ... Read more

The University of Uyo branch of Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the Senior Staff Association Of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), has joined their counterparts across the country on a 14-day warning strike over alleged indiscriminate deductions of the Integrated ... Read more