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The National Examination Council (NECO) on Monday fixed Sept. 10 as the deadline for the registration of schools and examination candidates for the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE). A statement by the Registrar/Chief Executive of the council, Prof. Godswill Obioma in Abuja said the examination body would not be subject to ... Read more

Daud Olatunji, Abeokuta The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Monday, warned the Federal Government that attempts to reopen tertiary institutions without taking concrete steps to curb the spread of COVID-19 would be suicidal. ASUU raised the alarm that the federal government should be ready for any possible negative consequences following ... Read more

Kayode Oyero The Presidential Task Force on Covid-19 has warned states planning to fully reopen schools to be guided by the experiences of countries like the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and France. The PTF, however, said it was not against the preparations by some states to fully reopen schools. The PUNCH had earlier ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), on Monday, has said it was still unsafe at this time for the nation’s public universities to reopen for academic activities. It also said even at that, the union is still on its industrial action which it commenced since March nationwide and would only call it off when demands are ... Read more

By Kofoworola Belo-Osagie The Education Quality Assurance (OEQA) unit of the Lagos State Ministry of Education has warned the public to disregard a resumption time table flying around the social media. The time-table claims to be the 2020/2021 academic calendar, states that the first term of the session would start September 21, 2020 and ... Read more

Damola Kola-Dare The Special Visitation Panel set up by the Federal Government to look into the crisis rocking the University of Lagos (UNILAG), on Monday began it’s sitting behind closed doors and collated memoranda submitted by members of the public. The panel, which has two weeks to submit its report, had issued a notice calling ... Read more

By Adesina Wahab The Special Visitation Panel set up by the Federal Government to probe the crisis rocking the University of Lagos, UNILAG, on Monday, collated memoranda from the public and started its sitting behind closed doors. The box, where the memoranda were dropped by interested persons, which was placed at the entrance of the ... Read more

Some states in Nigeria have ruled out the full reopening of schools, including tertiary institutions, saying that they would not follow the Lagos State example. Daily Times recalls that Lagos State on Saturday, August 29, announced that schools including tertiary institution will resume in September. Gov Babajide Sanwo-Olu, said higher institutions would resume on September 14, while the ... Read more

Osun State government on Monday announced a new schedule for the reopening of schools in the state, fixing resumption of schools for September 21, 2020. In a statement by the Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mrs Funke Egbemode, at the end of this week’s State Executive Council meeting, the government said while ... Read more

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin has convicted and sentenced a 400 Level undergraduate of the University of Ilorin, Akinsanya Olamide Ridwan, to three months Community Service for committing romance scam. The service requires him to clear the drainage at Bekind petrol filling station near Tipper Garage, ... Read more