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The Federal Government has sealed an Ibadan-based factory, Expand Global Manufacturing Limited, where a 21-year-old student, Richard Gbadebo, died on July 28. The factory located in Oluyole area of the city was sealed on Wednesday by officials of the Federal Ministry of Labour and Employment. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that ... Read more

To celebrate the 80th birthday of its Chairman, Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi, the MTN Foundation has established an e-library at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, the foundation also launched a scholarship scheme for eight beneficiaries. OAU has become the latest recipient of the e-library intervention by the MTN Foundation ... Read more

Saint Lucia (French: Sainte-Lucie) is a sovereign island country in the West Indies in the eastern Caribbean Sea on the boundary with the Atlantic Ocean. The island was formerly called Iyonola, the name was given to the island by the native Amerindians and later,Hewanorra the name given by the native Caribs. Part of the Lesser Antilles, it is located north/northeast of the island of Saint ... Read more

Three students in the Faculty of Law, Lagos State University, LASU, have emerged winners at the maiden edition of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) National Intellectual Property Essay Competition held earlier this year. The feat by the LASU students drew accolades from the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, SAN, who ... Read more

Mrs Folashade Adefisayo, HC for Education in Lagos.Lagos State Commissiiner for Education, Mrs. Folashade Adefisayo, took part in a symposium organised via Zoom by the Association of Nursery and Primary Education instructors in Nigeria, ANPEIN, under the leadership of Mr. Sunday Fowowe. Among the participants was the Special Adviser to the ... Read more

KADUNA State Scholarship and Loans Board said that two female candidates topped a list of 29 first class degree holders that were awarded scholarship under the merit-based foreign scholarship scheme. A statement by the executive secretary of the board, Malam Hassan Rilwan, disclosed that the awardees, Amina Sani Bello and Halima Alhafiz ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASSU) says its members are prepared to embrace online/virtual mode of teaching as an addition to the usual face-to-face classroom teaching when schools are reopened. Speaking in an exclusive interview with Tribune Education, the president of the union, Professor ’Biodun Ogunyemi, said members are ... Read more

Nigerian social media users, including lawyer and rights activist, Prof. Chidi Odinkalu, have reacted to the claim by Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development (MHADMSD), Sadiya Farouq, that the government spent over N523.3 million feeding school children in Lagos, Ogun and FCT during the lockdown. Farouq ... Read more

NEWLY-appointed Head of Department of Mass Communication, University of Lagos, Dr. Joseph Tejumaiye has said he is going to improve on the legacies of his predecessors to ensure that the department remains the best School of Communication in Africa. The Associate Professor of Mass Communication, whose tenure started from August 1, replaced ... Read more

Acting Vice Chancellor of the University of Port Harcourt, Prof. Stephen Okodudu, has expressed worries over the lingering crises rocking the institution. Okodudu, however, yesterday inaugurated two committees to resolve the grievances among members of the university community and bring an end to all ongoing court cases. The committee on ... Read more