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Oriental Energy Resources Ltd, an indigenous marginal oil field operator has announced applications for the 2020 to 2021 University Scholarship Award Scheme for Awka Ibom students. The firm disclosed this in a statement by its Corporate Communications Manager, Mr Sam Umukoro, in Abuja, on Wednesday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports ... Read more

Mr. Yinka Ogundimu is the Chairman House Committee on Education in the Lagos State House of Assembly. Reacting to issues relating to virtual class, Ogundimu in an interview with Ebunoluwa Sessou, explained that although online learning is a new innovation to be accepted into the Nigerian educational system, all hands must be on deck to ... Read more

FOLLOWING its success at running degree programmes in affiliation with the Federal University of Technology, Minna, the Federal Polytechnic, Bida, is set to add more degree programmes, this time in affiliation with the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai. The management of the polytechnic led by the rector, Dr. Abubakar Abdul Dzukogi, ... Read more

THE Federal Government, yesterday, released a comprehensive schedule for various National Examinations for exit classes, spanning from August 17 to November 18, 2020. The Minister of State for Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajuiba, who made the announcement in Abuja after series of meetings with Chief Executives of examination bodies in the ... Read more

Lagos State governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Wednesday, approved the appointment of Chairmen and Governing Council members for four state-owned tertiary institutions. They are; Lagos State University (LASU), Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED), Lagos State Polytechnic and Michael Otedola College of Primary Education (MOCPED). The ... Read more

THE executive secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Professor Suleiman Bogoro, has disclosed that the scope of application for the 2020 N7.5 billion national research grant has been extended to non-state entities, private research institutes and educational institutions for research purposes. President Muhammadu Buhari recently approved ... Read more

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says that neither the federal nor the various state governments have put anything in place to suggest that the protocols they reel out as control measures against COVID-19 will be implemented in their own schools. Professor ‘Biodun Ogunyemi, the president of the union, said in an ... Read more

The University of Port Harcourt chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the federal government of being behind the ongoing secret employment of academic and non-academic staff in the university. It also accused the federal government of allegedly compounding the problems facing the university by its failure to ... Read more

THE COVID-19 pandemic school closure has resulted in the death of another university student, this time, a student of the University of Ibadan (UI), Gbadebo Richard. The institution’s Union of Campus Journalist (UCJ) published the news of the death of the 300-level student of the Department of European Studies, Faculty of Arts, on its ... Read more

THE Ogun State government said it granted approval for the operations of new 129 primary and 89 secondary schools in the state between January and June this year. Special Adviser to Governor Dapo Abiodun on primary and secondary education, Mrs Ronke Soyombo, and her technical and vocational education counterpart, Professor Joseph Odemuyiwa, said the approvals were given through the Ministry of ... Read more