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Nigerian students under the auspices of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) are currently faced with the grave consequence of being deported back to Nigeria, following a gross default by the commission to make good on their financial responsibilities to Nigerian students currently engaging their educational pursuits in higher institutions of learning abroad. Daily Times gathered, ... Read more

Lagos State Government has directed all the SS3 and Technical Studies (TEC3) Students in both day and boarding schools in the State to resume on Monday, 3rd of August, 2020 in line with the directive of the Federal Government. Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, who disclosed this in Alausa, Ikeja, stated that it ... Read more

Nwanosike Onu, Awka Anambra State government says they are prepared for the resumption of Schools as directed by the Federal government, but says only Senior Secondary class three will return. In the government’s riot act to students, teachers and managements, the government declared that those that had filled the forms would resume ... Read more

Ondo State government has approved the reopening of public and private secondary schools for the purpose of writing the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE). The government in a circular issued at the weekend through the ministry of Education, Science and Technology however gave conditions for the reopening of the schools. As a ... Read more

Lagos State government has directed that all SS3 and Technical Studies (TEC3) students in both day and boarding schools in the state should to resume on Monday, 3rd of August, 2020 in line with the directive of the Federal Government. The State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, gave the directive in Alausa, Ikeja, stating ... Read more

The Lagos State Government said it has intensified the periodic fumigation/decontamination of all public secondary schools, in preparation for the planned partial resumption of terminal class students. The Permanent Secretary, Office of Environmental Services, Mrs Aderonke Odeneye said, in a statement, on Saturday, that majority of the public ... Read more

In a bid to keep its students productively engaged during the COVID-19 pandemic, the authorities of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB), is organising an online Basic Digital Filmmaking Course for a duration of four weeks. In a statement signed by the institution’s Head, Directorate of Public Relations, Dr (Mrs) ... Read more

Daud Olatunji, Abeokuta With schools reopening for graduating pupils this week after months of closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, parents of pupils in private secondary schools in Ogun State on Sunday kicked against the request of N25,000 COVID-19 test fee by the government. Many of the parents, who took their demonstrations to the ... Read more

The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, speaks with OLALEYE ALUKO about government’s plan to reopen schools amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ongoing university lecturers’ strike over the implementation of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, among other ... Read more

Osogbo- Authorities of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile Ife has admonished tertiary institutions in the country to embrace and focus on e-learning to keep academic activities running amid the rampaging coronavirus. The spokesman of the university Centre for Distance Learning, Adeyemi Adedeji made the remarks at the weekend at the launching ... Read more