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TO commemorate Professor Charles Chukwuma Soludo’s 60th birthday anniversary, the All Soludo Support Groups have instituted an endowment for an annual award to the best graduating student in the Department of Economics at both Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka and Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University, Igbariam, respectively. Both institutions ... Read more

The management of the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, Nigeria has debunked reports of a fire outbreak at its headquarters in Abuja. Head of Public Affairs, WAEC, Nigeria, Demianus Ojijeogu, in a statement on Thursday, explained that the rumour was the handiwork of mischief makers to confuse candidates and the general public of the ... Read more

PRIVATE school owners in Lagos State have commended the state government for giving them food palliatives to cushion the effect of the prolonged school closure occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic on them and their workers. They said the food items which include bags of rice, beans, garri, beverages, milk, carbonated drinks, margarine and food ... Read more

THE Oyo State government has announced the readiness of the state’s Teaching Service Commission (Oyo TESCOM) to conduct computer-based test (CBT) for all candidates applying for teaching appointment, starting from Tuesday, August 11, 2020. The Chairman, Oyo TESCOM, Pastor Akinade Alamu, stated this on a radio programme in Ibadan on ... Read more

ABUJA – NON-teaching Staff in the Universities have begged Nigerians to intervene on their behalf and plead with the Federal Government to pay them arrears of the minimum wage increment. The unions also lamented that since they enrolled in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, they have been collecting half ... Read more

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the trade union of senior members of staff in universities and the Non Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU), the group for junior workers have flayed the implementation of the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System by the Federal ... Read more

Prospective corps members have appealed to the National Youth Service Corps to reopen orientation camps for commencement of service. Some of them, who spoke with SaharaReporters, asked the NYSC management to post them directly to organisations currently operating without camping as recommended by ‪Vice President, Yemi ... Read more

Oyo State Post Primary Schools’ Teaching Service Commission (TESCOM) has fixed examinations dates for the 91,000 applicants for 7,000 available teaching appointments in secondary schools in the state. Though the Computer-Based Test (CBT) was earlier fixed for April this year, the COVID-19 pandemic, however, prevented the test from holding ... Read more

The Kogi State Government on Thursday commenced the fumigation of its schools ahead of resumption of students for exit classes on August 10 in the state. Addressing journalists at Crowther Memorial College, Lokoja, to launch the exercise, the State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Wemi Jones, commended the governor for his ... Read more

The United States Africa Command has said terrorist groups including the Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, Boko Haram and Al-Shabaab, in the last five years, shut down over 9,000 schools in different African countries including Nigeria. It said the insurgents are replacing the schools with theirs where they brainwash students with damaging ... Read more