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By Elizabeth Osayande Former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has stated that the over 14 million out-of-school children may be added to the poverty group of the country if the education sector is not revamped and transformed. Obasanjo said this as a guest at the recent graduation ceremony of the 2020 class of the Teach For ... Read more

Lecturers under the aegis of Congress of University Academics (CONUA) have informed the Federal Government of their readiness to resume academic activities. The lecturers expressed their willingness to resume in a press statement released on Wednesday after CONUA’s National Executive Council meeting in Abuja. In the statement, the lecturers urged FG to reopen universities as soon as ... Read more

THE Federal Government on Wednesday inaugurated a seven-man special presidential visitation panel to look into the crisis rocking the University of Lagos (UNILAG). The panel, led by Professor Tukur Sa’ad, is mandated to complete its assignment and submit within two weeks as well as come up with recommendations towards repositioning the ... Read more

The Special Presidential Visitation Panel set up to probe the removal of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Vice-Chancellor, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, will submit its report in two weeks. Ogundipe was removed by the Wale Babalakin-led Governing Council over allegations of financial infractions. Last Saturday, President Muhammadu Buhari announced ... Read more

* PDP offers automatic ticket to Dickson on by-election Onungwe One in Yenagoa Twenty students currently writing the West African School Certificate examinations conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) have tested positive to COVID-19. This was disclosed in Yenagoa yesterday by the Permanent Secretary, state Ministry of ... Read more

The President of the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), Dr. Bruce Stillman and the Executive Director of the DNA Learning Center New York (the educational arm of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Dr. Dave Micklos, have approved a $300,000 USD waiver and issued a licence to Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu, to have the first DNA Learning Centre in Africa known as the DNA Learning Centre Nigeria. ... Read more

…calls for memoranda By Adesina Wahab The Special Visitation Panel set up by the Federal Government to look into the lingering crisis at the University of Lagos, UNILAG will begin sitting on Monday. The Monday date, it was gathered, is to allow all the necessary logistics for the welfare and accommodation of members to ... Read more

Amid the Covid-19 pandemic and widespread school closures, at least one-third of students affected around the world lack access to virtual education, according to a UN study released Wednesday. In all, an estimated 463 million children lack the equipment or electronic access to pursue distance learning, said the report from UNICEF. “The ... Read more

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Benin (UNIBEN) chapter, have accused the police of unprofessionalism in the discharge of their duties. They expressed sadness that the accident which claimed the life of one of them at the institution’s Ugbowo campus main gate was avoidable but for the poor ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has delisted over 22 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres for allegedly defrauding 11,823 of its candidates to the tune of N59 million. The Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede made this known during a virtual meeting with representatives of the affected centres on ... Read more