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Three students were injured and properties destroyed in a fire outbreak at the University of Maiduguri Murtala female hostel on Saturday, the second of such incidents in one month. The fire, which was suspected to have started from a cooking stove, was put out almost immediately by the university’s fire service. Commenting on the ... Read more

The police have arrested a 300-level student of Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) identified as Miracle Ogochukwu Chiagoziem for reportedly pouring hot water on her colleague Wisdom Uchenna Chukwuemeka, a 400 level student of Geology department. Ogochukwu reportedly poured hot water on Chukwuemeka at their hostel in Eziobodo on ... Read more

Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu has decried the high level of brain drain in the health sector, saying it will take the country about 120 years to have the number of doctors it needs, if all Nigerian doctors remain in the country. Adamu stated this on Friday at the maiden matriculation ceremony of the Federal University of ... Read more

The six staff of the University of Abuja, abducted by gunmen on Tuesday, have been rescued and reunited with their families. The spokesperson of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command DSP Josephine Adeh confirmed the development. She said: “The FCT Police Command wishes to inform members of the public that all abducted victims of the university of Abuja were rescued and reunited ... Read more

The Lagos State Government has said edutainment will improve teaching and learning in the state if properly utilised. Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, said this at the 2021 Lagos State Festival of Instructional Materials held Alausa, Ikeja. She said the theme of the event, ‘Edutainment in the 21st Century ... Read more

Students of the Ondo State-owned University of Medical Sciences (UNIMED), Ondo, will begin to pay school tuition as high as N2 million in the next academic calendar, according to a document obtained by SaharaReporters on Wednesday. UniMed was established in 2015 as a specialised medical university. SaharaReporters gathered that the school fees ... Read more

A total of 32 contestants have made the final shortlist for this year’s ANSA World Cup, an annual competition for young aspiring writers organised by the Association of Nigerian Student Authors (ANSA). The tournament will last about two months. The group stage of the round-ribbon literary tournament will commence on Friday, November 5, ... Read more

Students of Gana Mixed Secondary School, located at Ton Sapele in the Sapele Local Government Area of oil-rich Delta State are required to provide roofing sheets among other things as a prerequisite for admission. As part of the school's admission requirements, students are required to provide two corrugated roofing sheets, nails and two thousand naira (N2,000), SaharaReporters has ... Read more

JOS – Provosts of Federal Colleges of Education in Nigeria has commended the Federal Government on the pronouncement of incentives per semester for students undergoing NCE and degree programmes in colleges of education in the country. Chairman of the Committee and Provost FCE Pankshin Dr. Amos Bulus Cirfat gave the commendation after the ... Read more

A graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Ogunbamowo Damilola, is set to sue the institution after discovering that her matriculation number was used to mobilise another student of the institution for the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) programme. In a petition obtained by SaharaReporters, the student, a graduate of the department of Mathematics Education from the institution's ... Read more