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Graduating students in secondary schools across the country on Monday expressed joy over the reopening of schools for them to write their final year examinations. Many of those interviewed said they were tired of staying at home and saw the reopening of schools as a glad tiding. Officials of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) said they have registered 1, 549, 463 candidates from 19, ... Read more

The Federal Government has said that the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) subjects peculiar to Nigeria candidates will be taken from September 5 through September 14, 2020. The Minister of State Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said this on Monday in Abuja, while answering questions at the 53rd joint national briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on ... Read more

The Vice-Chancellor, Trinity University, Lagos, Prof. Charles Ayo, has commended the Federal Government for reopening schools for students in exit classes to take public examinations. The Federal Government had on Monday in Abuja after a meeting with stakeholders in the education sector announced the reopening of exit classes for Primary and ... Read more

The Development Agenda for Western Nigeria (DAWN) Commission has lauded the decision of the Federal Government to announce August 4 as the date to reopen schools for SSS3 students. Speaking, Director General, DAWN, Mr Seye Oyeleye, described the decision of the Federal Government as a victory for dialogue. He said it was commendable that ... Read more

Chairman/CEO, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa has lamented that some Nigerian students on scholarships in the United Kingdom have turned beggars because of neglect by their sponsors. She, therefore, appealed to the sponsor, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) to urgently remit their allowances, tuition and ... Read more

The alleged unprofessional manner by the police in the discharge of its duties as regards the accident that claimed the life of a University of Benin (UNIBEN) don at the Ugbowo campus main gate has drawn the ire of UNIBEN chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). In a joint statement in Benin yesterday by the Chairman, Prof. Monday Omoregie and Secretary, Dr Fabian ... Read more

AGAINST the backdrop of the ravaging COVID-19, some state governments in the South-West have said that primary and post-primary schools will remain shut in the face of COVID-19 pandemic. Osun State Commissioner for Education, r Folorunso Bamisayemi Oladoyin on Saturday said the state government was not in a hurry to reopen schools. Speaking to our correspondent in a telephone chat, he said ... Read more

A Yoruba Youth Group, Alliance of Yoruba Youth Council Worldwide (AYYCW), has condemned the silence of the government at both state and Federal level towards the predicament of private school teachers. This was disclosed in a press statement signed by the National Publicity Secretary of the group, Oladipo Gbeminiyi, and made available to Tribune Online on Saturday. According to the group, ... Read more

The leadership of National Association of Private School Teachers (NAPST), has said that more 100,000 teachers in private schools are unable to feed their families and cannot pay their basic bills as a result of the closure of schools to prevent the spread of COVID-19 pandemic. NAPST President, Comrade Akhigbe Olumhense, who addressed newsmen on Thursday in Abuja, appealed to both Federal and ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned that the myriads of problems hampering the progress of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) would persist if the Federal Government failed to constitute a Governing Council for the university. Giving the warning on Tuesday after an enlarged meeting of the union, ASUU UNIPORT ... Read more