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In addition to the offer of scholarship last month to 50 Nigerian students to study medicine in Venezuela, To enhance the education of indigent students, the Orji Uzor Kalu Foundation, has offered scholarships to another batch of 650 students to pursue their university education in different courses of studies in part of the country. ... Read more

The National YouthS Service Corps( NYSC) schemehas condemned in its entirety attacks on some corps members serving in Lagos State by miscreants while carrying out their national duties. The corps members were allegedly attacked by the hoodlums at Ikeja under Bridge during a sensitisation and enlightenment campaigns for the NYSC National ... Read more

The Benue State government yesterday offered scholarship to a four year old boy, Master Eje Moses Alia Eloneje who was reportedly kidnapped but regained freedom, from nursery school to university level. Master Eloneje, an Igede boy, New Telegraph gathered was abducted during the brawl between the Bonta people of Konshisha and their Okpute ... Read more

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier- General Shuaibu Ibrahim, yesterday said he was strongly convinced that the Nigeria’s education and health sectors would collapse if the scheme is scrapped. He then called on those calling for the scrapping of the NYSC to have a rethink and rather see how they ... Read more

Nigeria’s former First Lady, Patience Jonathan, has called on students to prioritise education and act as agents of change, innovation and development in the country. Jonathan made the comments on Monday at Ignatius Ajuri University of Education, Port Harcourt at an event organised by the University of Education Women Association. ... Read more

The Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo in Ebonyi State, has debunked the rumour making the rounds that it hiked students accommodation fees from N70,000 to N300,000. The head of Public Relations and Information Unit of AE-FUNAI, Mr Elom Ubochi, stated this in an interview with our correspondent. He noted that the rumour ... Read more

The Lagos State Government has said students from the Alternative High School for Girls, Agboju, are now studying in universities in Lagos and across the country. Special Adviser to Governor Sanwo-Olu on Education, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, said this during a day sensitisation/ public enlightenment programme on the need to re-enroll school drop-outs ... Read more

Seven students of the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ogun State, have bagged national laurels after winning the 2021 edition of the national competition. The students were honoured by the TASUED Enactus club for their display of talents to use waste to develop everyday products, especially, using plantain leaves to make menstrual pads. The students include Omiyale Afusat, ... Read more

The National Youths Service Corps in Ondo State has said it lacked adequate accommodation facilities for corps members on its permanent orientation camp, located at Ikare Akoko, the headquarters of Akoko North-East Area of Ondo State. To this end, the state coordinator of the NYSC, Mrs Victoria Nnenna Ani, called on the two prominent ... Read more

The West Africa Examination Council on Tuesday announced the official date for the commencement of the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The Head of the Nigeria office, Mr. Patrick Areghan, in Lagos on Tuesday announced that the examination will commence on August 16, 2021. Areghan said: “In accordance with the ... Read more