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Lagos State Government has said all public and private primary and secondary schools in the state should resume for the third term of the 2020/2021 academic session on Tuesday 4th May 2021. In a statement by the Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, the Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, welcomes students back to school and ... Read more

THE Amalgamated Union of Public Corporations, Civil Service Technical and Recreational Services Employees, AUPCTRE, has accused the Federal Government of being responsible for the strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, ASUP, the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN and the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, ... Read more

The Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) has claimed it was under pressure to resume its suspended strike after the Federal Government failed to fulfil its promises at expiration of the April 30 deadline. SSANU claimed the government had yet to commence payment of the consequential adjustments for the new national minimum ... Read more

Bandits who kidnapped Greenfield University students in Kaduna have threatened to kill the remaining 17 of their captives if the state government or their families fail to comply with their demands. Recall that 22 of the students and three staff members of the university were abducted from the school campus along the Kaduna-Abuja highway on April 20. Five of them have so far been ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has refuted allegations making the rounds that it targeted the Baptist Girls’ Academy, Lagos, during a board inspection of registration centres. The Baptist Girls Academy had accused the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede of profiling and conducting a media trial of the school after a video ... Read more

The newly elected chairman of Kings College, Lagos, Parent-Teacher Association (PTA), Mr. Sunday Amen, has promised to restore the lost glory of one of the nation’s premier schools. Amen, who spoke after he was declared president, pledged to address infrastructural decay in the college and improve on teachers’ welfare. Said he: ... Read more

A recent interaction with the Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, was an eye-opener on admission process. It gave insight into why candidates with high marks do no usually secure admission. Oloyede had monitored the ongoing registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) ... Read more

One of the abducted students of Greenfield University in Kaduna State has been released by the abductors. The kidnappers had threatened yesterday to eliminate the remaining 17 of the students in their custody should their parents fail to pay them N100 million ransom, in addition to 10 motorcycles. Although the police and government authorities are yet to confirm the development, mother of the ... Read more

MOTHERS of some of the abducted students of the College of Forestry Mechanisation, Afaka, in Kaduna State, could not hold back tears on Tuesday during their protest at the National Assembly complex in Abuja, as they begged the governments and security, “Please help us.” The protesters, including members of the Students Union ... Read more

A last minute effort by the Niger State Government to save public schools from total shutdown on Tuesday failed leading to the commencement of an indefinite strike by teachers on Wednesday. The government had summoned a meeting with the teachers Tuesday to find resolve their grievances, but the Head of Service, Hajia Salamatu Abubakar, who ... Read more