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As the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board kicked off the admission exercise for the 2020/2021 academic year for tertiary institutions, Raheem Akingbolu reviews the examination process, which many believe has been smooth all the way, despite all odds Every year, examination bodies nationwide, including the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), face many challenges, especially ... Read more

In an effort to accelerate and deepen the growth of online education in Nigeria, Airtel Nigeria has announced a partnership with Dynamiss, an educational technology company, to subsidise data and mobile Internet for all Nigerian schools and students using the Dynamiss Learning Management Systems. Under the partnership, both organisations are ... Read more

Nigerian universities, partnering in the training of students under the Presidential Amnesty Scholarship Programme, have expressed concern over the delay in the payment of students’ tuition and other fees to the universities, by the scheme’s caretaker committee, saying that it is causing untold financial embarrassment for the ... Read more

As lockdown on schools continues, private school teachers have revealed how they struggle to survive without salaries. Some of them, who spoke to DAILY POST, said they have to take up petty trading and home lessons as a means of survival. While their counterparts in public schools receive their salaries on a monthly basis, the private ... Read more

The Ekiti State government has approved a new education policy that would guarantee the teaching of Information Communication and Technology (ICT) as a course from the primary cadre of education. The move, according to the government, would boost ICT know-how among the citizens and expand the scope of knowledge for more opportunities in the global community. The State Executive Council ... Read more

Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), has said that the university, with support from the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), is embarking on a poultry project worth N600 million. Abdulkareem made this disclosure on Tuesday while inaugurating the Mycoplasma Diagnostic and Research Laboratory of the Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Faculty of ... Read more

The Paediatric Association of Nigeria (PAN) has declared its support for the continued closure of Nigerian schools urging that schools should remain closed until conditions are safe. The association gave the minimum criterion for considering the reopening of schools in Nigeria as a “steady and consistent decline in the spread of COVID-19 in most parts of the country. It is then and only ... Read more

MASTER Toluwalase Oseni of Caleb British International School, Lekki, Lagos State, has been declared as the winner of the 2020 World Scavenger Hunt Award at the recently concluded competition. The event, an annual global entrepreneurial competition which took place virtually as a result of the COVID — 19 pandemic, had 55 teams from the USA and other countries as participants with Master ... Read more

The World Bank has approved a $500 million credit for the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) towards improving secondary education opportunities among girls in seven states in the country. A statement from the bank in Abuja on Wednesday noted that the credit was approved from its International Development ... Read more

The pro-chancellors of private universities have decried the continued shutdown of the country’s ivory towers by the Federal Government since the outbreak of COVID-19, saying failure to reopen them will have adverse effect on the continued viability of the institutions. The Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Private Universities urged the Federal Government to approve the reopening of ... Read more