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Lagos State government has released the results of this year’ s screening exam for admission into its model colleges and upgraded junior secondary schools. More than 8,000 candidates sat the exam, which is being conducted by the state’ s examinations board. The Assistant Director, Public Affairs, Lagos State Examinations Board, Mr ... Read more

Lagos Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered private schools across the state to reopen from Monday, October 26 for normal academic activities. Private and public schools in the state were shut on Monday over safety concerns following outbreak of violence during the #ENDSARS protests. The Governor however said public schools remain ... Read more

The Lagos State Government has announced that private and public schools remain closed in the state. The Lagos State Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Gbenga Omotoso, announced this on Sunday. He had earlier tweeted that only public schools remained closed in the state before giving an update that the extended closure includes ... Read more

Mayokun Olayiwola, a final-year student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Osun State, tells BOLA BAMIGBOLA about his experience with officers of the Special Anti-Robbery Squad Can you tell us about your encounter with SARS? I am Olayiwola Mayokun, a student of Philosophy at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife. I am already in my ... Read more

At a time when his parents should be rejoicing that their first child, Calvin Okakwu, has become a graduate, they are devastated over his whereabouts 17 months after he went missing. Sunday Punch learnt that Calvin, a final year Mathematics student at the Lagos State University, left his home on Oseni Salawu Street, Egan-Igando on May 21, ... Read more

Governor Seyi MakindeGov. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has directed schools in Ibadan to resume normal academic activities from Monday. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr Olasunkanmi Olaleye, made this known in a statement issued on Sunday in Ibadan. ... Read more

Onyebuchi Ezigbo in Abuja The federal government’s negotiating team and the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will resume negotiations today to iron out their differences over the application of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) and the proposed release of N30 billion university ... Read more

The Management of Kwara Polytechnic, in Ilorin, has suspended the ongoing first semester examinations. Ajibola S. Jimoh, Deputy Registrar, Information and Publication, of the institution, announced this in a statement in Ilorin. He explained that the development was caused by the 24-hour curfew declared in Ilorin, by Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq, in order to prevent further escalation of ... Read more

A victim of the excesses of the disbanded Special Anti-Robbery Squad and Law lecturer at the Niger Delta University in Bayelsa State, Dr Matthew Ayibakuro, in this interview with DANIELS IGONI, narrates his experience in the hands of the SARS operatives When were you maltreated by the operatives of SARS? It happened in April 2019. How did ... Read more

The report of the Auditor General of the Federation, currently being considered by the Senate Public Account Committee, has indicted the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board for awarding N7.3bn without recourse to due process. The AuGoF, Anthony Ayine, submitted the report to the leadership of the Senate, which later forwarded it to the ... Read more