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Awka- ANAMBRA State government Tuesday announced the lifting of curfew imposed on the state by Governor Willie Obiano in the wake of #endSARS protests by youths across the state. Commissioner for Information and Public Enlightenment, Mr. C Don Adinuba said the lifting of the curfew followed a great improvement in the security situation in ... Read more

Police in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday arrested at least 55 suspects in a swoop after a bombing at an Islamic school that killed eight students a day earlier. The arrests were made from the vicinity of the seminary in the city of Peshawar and suspects were being questioned, ... Read more

IT may not be wrong to surmise that both the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government have chosen to bicker as the country’s public universities prepare to resume academic activities after a long lull following the onslaught of the Covid-19 pandemic in the country. While the government has not been without ... Read more

Academic Staff Union of Universities and Federal Government have resumed their negotiation over the strike embarked upon by the lecturers. They had adjourned their meeting till Monday after the meeting last Wednesday ended in a deadlock. The parley is expected to decide on the platform for the disbursement of the funds pledged by the FG. The ... Read more

Oyo State government on Wednesday said it has cancelled the midterm holiday for public and private schools in the State. The state government made this known in a statement on Wednesday. The circular was signed by the Commissioner for Education Science And Technology, Barrister Olasunkanmi Olaleye. Olaleye said the decision for the mid-term ... Read more

The Federal Executive Council has approved N2.9 billion for the printing of examination materials. Speaking with state house correspondents on Wednesday, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said the approval was granted at the council’s meeting which was presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. Adamu who revealed that the printing ... Read more

Anani Oluwabunmi, a teacher at Concordia College, Yola, Adamawa State, has emerged the 2020 Maltina Teacher of the Year. Anani, an English teacher was declared the winner at the grand finale held on Friday, October 16, 2020, at Eko Hotel Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. For emerging ... Read more

The Kano State Commissioner of Education, Muhammad Sanusi Kiru has issued a November 1st deadline to private school proprietors in the state to slash down their school fees by 25 per cent or it will cancel the third term of the 2019/2020 academic session. The Commissioner stated this in a statement made available to Vanguard on ... Read more

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State.By Olasunkanmi Akoni The Lagos State Government has approved the re-opening of schools for all classes in public and private schools across the state beginning from Monday, November 2, 2020, while boarders in public schools are to resume on Sunday, November 1. Recall that Lagos State Governor, ... Read more

The Director-General, National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim says anyone caught unlawfully with NYSC uniforms will face a three-year jail term. Ibrahim said this after hoodlums invaded the NYSC orientation camp in Kubwa, Abuja. Recall that hoodlums on ... Read more