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This is to remind staff and students that University Management hereby reiterates its earlier directives, dated 26 April, 2019, that staff and students should wear their Identification Card with Tag whenever they are on the campus. This is to ensure proper identification of staff and students at all times in view of the current security challenges. Staff and students are therefore enjoined ... Read more

Gov. Aminu Bello-Masari of Katsina state says the State Government has recruited no fewer than 2,500 teachers in the state. Bello-Masari disclosed this when members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) youths paid him a courtesy visit on Wednesday in Katsina. He said the government was gradually converting candidates of the N-POWER programme ... Read more

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a 21- year-old secondary school dropout, Omesu Christian Chimdu, before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of a Lagos Special Offences Court in Ikeja for allegedly swindling a Korean woman living in the United States of the sum of $350,000 using digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Chimdu was ... Read more

Passengers of an 18-seater bus and a Sienna bus conveying students of Naval college of engineering, Sapele have been whisked away by unknown gunmen. The victims were reportedly ambushed and kidnapped while returning from Kaduna State to Sapele, Delta State. The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Kotongs Bello who confirmed the incident, ... Read more

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command said it has apprehended one Samuel Cosmos Akpan, a student of the University of Uyo who allegedly stabbed a fellow student, one Ubong Pelen Solomon to death. The Police Public Relations Officer in the State, SP Odiko Macdon who disclosed this in a press statement on Monday, said the corpse of the victim ... Read more

AWKA – The Vice-Chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Professor Charles Okechukwu Esimone has called on departments and research units in the university to key into his vision for the University to rank among the best in Nigeria, best ten in Africa and among the top 200 in the world. Esimone said he purposely articulated ... Read more

UYO – Akwa Ibom State government has vowed that its current focus in the education sector would not be misplaced till the sector is fully transformed. Recall that the state government, at the Executive Council meeting earlier in the year had declared a state of emergency in the education sector. Governor Udom Emmanuel, while making ... Read more

The Chartered Institute of Educational Practitioners UK (CIEPUK) says it has concluded arrangements to host the Mr Miss CIEPUK 2021 Educational Contest in Abuja. Prof. Marcel Ezenwoye, the President, CIEPUK Africa, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Monday that the upcoming contest, scheduled to hold on Aug. 26, was aimed at ... Read more

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has inducted 900 graduates of the Federal College of Education (Technical), Umunze in Anambra State into the teaching profession. The inductees were among the successful candidates that sat for the 2021 Professional Qualifying Examination conducted by TRCN, which was held at the college, as ... Read more

Ogun State Government has spoken of plans to employ at least 5,000 teachers for its public primary and secondary schools across the state. Chairman, Ogun State Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM), Olalekan Ifede said that the teachers must be graduates with educational backgrounds so as to impart the right and relevant knowledge in modern ... Read more