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The Kano State Governor, Mr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has commenced the disbursement of N148 million upkeep grants for 1,400 public secondary schools across the state. Ganduje explained yesterday that his administration has been giving the education sector serious attention because of its importance to the development of any society. He said ... Read more

Parents of Lagos public primary school pupils have commended the state Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu for his brilliant intervention in repositioning the primary education through the EKOEXCEL programme. EkoExcel which means Excellence in Child Education and Learning, is an educational transformation initiative of the governor, aimed at bridging the ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union (COEASU) of Federal College of Education (Tech), Bichi, Kano State, has commenced a one-week warning strike. The Chairman of the union, Mr. Muhammad Salisu Yunusa, announced this yesterday while briefing journalists, accusing the management of the college under the leadership of Muhammad Bashir Fagge of non-remittance ... Read more

The Vice Chancellor, University of Abuja, Prof. Abdul Rasheed Na’Allah has disclosed that through research in the nation’s ivory towers, the incessant cases of insecurity will be a thing of the past. The VC who reiterated that insecurity is a researchable issue, said every challenge of human endeavour needs research and needs its ... Read more

Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) has suggested that Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State should honour the late spokesperson for Afenifere, Yinka Odumakin, by lifting the ban on students' union activities in the school. Paying tribute to Odumakin in a statement on Monday, Falana noted how the Vice Chancellor of the ... Read more

The (JAMB) has accused the management of the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), and some unamed institutions of illegally admitting students in the ongoing 2020/2021 admission processes. JAMB, which made the allegation in a statement issued on Tuesday evening and signed by its head of Public Affairs and Protocol unit, Fabian Benjamin, declared ... Read more

LAGOS — The success story of Alimi Gbemosola Aishat, the 21-year-old graduate from the Department of Accounting, College of Management Sciences, who emerged as the Best Overall Student of the Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State 2019/2020 session, did not come easy. It took the intervention of her parents, Mr and Mrs Y.A ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced that the use of email would no longer be required for the processing of registration for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry. The Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, said this while speaking with journalists on Tuesday evening. ... Read more

A 300-level student of Lagos State University, Kehinde Olowa, has been released to his family by his abductors on Monday. The PUNCH had reported that Kehinde was abducted by unknown gunmen on April 9 at the Benin-Ore Expressway, as he returned to Lagos from Warri. Opeoluwa, a close friend of Kehinde, confirmed to The PUNCH on Wednesday ... Read more

OVER N10 million meant to be paid to ad-hoc staff of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, as allowance has been hijacked into the accounts of over a dozen fraudsters who gained entry into the internet site of the board. To this end, the board has said the mobile phone would henceforth be the only major requirement for ... Read more