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The National Universities Commission has given accreditation for nineteen undergraduate and post-graduate programmes in the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education in Rivers State. The full accreditation by NUC comes three months after the commission’s accreditation panel visited the institution to ascertain the human and material resources ... Read more

Following the hike in school fees by the management the state owned Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai (IBBUL), the Niger state House of Assembly has intervened in the crisis. Raising a motion of urgent public importance, member representing Bida 2, Hon Mohammed Alhaji Haruna stated that the Governing Council of the school and the ... Read more

Parents of the abducted Bethel Baptist High school, Kaduna are confused and helpless on the continued captivity of their children in the hands of their abductors. Recall that in the early hours of Monday. 5th July, 2021, bandits stormed Bethel Baptist High School, Damishi, Kaduna and abducted 121 students of the school. Some students of the ... Read more

Chief Executive Officer, Canadian Bridge Academy, Lagos, Mrs Suzie Ogiugo, in this interview with GRACE EDEMA, speaks about the need for the Nigerian education system to pay attention to application of knowledge rather than just passing examinations Why do some students have learning challenges? To be honest with you, there is no child that ... Read more

The management of the Kano University of Science and Technology ( KUST) has apprehended 17 students for harassing a female student for wearing Abaya. In the video which has since gone viral, the students were seen dragging the cloth of the female student, shouting “mai Abaya” at her. The Vice Chancellor of the ... Read more

Some graduating students of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education who were recently awarded first class honours have kicked against the decision of the school to subject them to a test to prove they truly merit their grades. The institution, it was gathered, said all the 2021 graduating students with cumulative Grade Point Average of ... Read more

A student of the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED), Ijagun, Ogun State has reportedly died while another is in critical condition after consuming a substance suspected to be poisonous. The deceased, Awojeji Itunuoluwa was a 200 level student of the Library and Information Science department, while doctors are currently battling to ... Read more

The leadership of the Taraba State chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has urged Governor Darius Dickson Ishaku to as a matter of urgency commence the implementation of the 2021 agreement made with the union. The Union also expressed dismay over the spate of insecurity that had enveloped the institution. They beckoned ... Read more

A University of Ilorin law student drop out, Muhammed Aliu, has been arrested by police operatives at Osun state Police Command for claiming to be a lawyer in Osogbo. According to him, the I.D card was given to him by a human rights lawyer he met in Ibadan for the sum of N100,000. Aliu revealed that he only uses lawyer’s ... Read more

Management of Greenfield University has countered Kaduna police command's claim of three students of the institution still being in captivity after news of students and non-academic staff of the school being released yesterday. Spokesman of the Kaduna state police command, Mohammed Jalinge had said that three students were still in ... Read more