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A month after it postponed indefinitely a special governing council meeting earlier scheduled to hold between July 13 and 15, the management of the Akoka, has fixed an emergency meeting of the council for August 12 to 14. However, the university has moved the meeting from its usual venue of the governing council chamber at the ... Read more

By Frank Ikpefan, Faith Yahaya, and Moses Emorinken, Abuja Minister of State for Education Emeka Nwajiuba said on Monday that private school teachers are eligible to access the Federal Government’s N100 billion COVID-19 intervention fund. He expressed satisfaction with the level of compliance with virus prevention protocol by schools that ... Read more

The student of the (FUTA), Afolabi Emmanuel, who tried to hack PREMIUM TIMES website in February has apologised to the medium. Between late February and early March, the hacker, who operated from FUTA,massive cyberattacks on PREMIUM TIMES website. The attacks happened days after the newspaper ran detailing a between the National ... Read more

ABUJA-THE Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria,TRCN,has challenged teachers in the country to brace up intellectually with a view to impacting quality education to students. Registrar of TRCN,Prof. Isaiah Ajiboye,who said this,also tasked teachers to improve themselves for the good of the teaching profession. Speaking Tuesday at ... Read more

Parents of university students and health workers have called on the Federal Government as a matter of necessity to provide safety equipment and train medical personnel working in all university clinics across the country in order to curb the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic before the resumption of students. The appeal was made by some of ... Read more

Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo. By Elizabeth Osayande To maintain all-round continuous learning for students staying home due to the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, Lagos State government has launched a well-packaged educational television programme tagged “The Total Education Show” comprising co-curricular ... Read more

The National Examinations Council (NECO) is recording low registration of candidates for examinations, its Registrar/Chief Executive Officer, Professor Godswill Obioma, has said. Obioma said there are currently 20,110 students registered for the NECO National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) for admission of Junior Secondary School (JSS1) pupils ... Read more

Chukwudi Akasike The Academic Staff Union of Universities has described the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System introduced by the Federal Government as a foreign platform that should be discarded immediately. The Chairman of ASUU, University of Port Harcourt branch, Dr Austen Sado, also said it was unthinkable that the personnel ... Read more

The Oyo State Government has said that a total of 441 First Class graduates in different fields applied for the computer-based test that commenced in Ibadan on Tuesday. The Chairman, Oyo State Teaching Service Commission, Pastor Akinade Alamu, made the disclosure during the monitoring of the exercise at the University of Ibadan computer-based ... Read more

Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed of Bauchi State has flagged off the official commencement of an educational programme in the state, tagged ‘School Meet the Learner Approach Program’ (SMLA) initiated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) with the aim of improving education delivery ... Read more