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Abiodun Nejo, Ado Ekiti Ekiti State Governor, Dr Kayode Fayemi, has said that learning will begin in the four model schools under construction in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital, at the beginning of next session. Fayemi said the contractors were billed to deliver the four schools named after prominent Ekiti leaders — Banji Akintoye, ... Read more

Jesusegun Alagbe Some weeks after the Federal Government announced the resumption of graduating pupils effective August 4, 2020, some states have also started announcing resumption dates for their schools. For instance, Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said primary and secondary schools in the state would be allowed to reopen ... Read more

The UK Government on Friday said it had awarded scholarships to 49 Nigerians to study in London through its Chevening scholarship programme. Opeyemi Ojo, Chevening Programme Officer in Nigeria, made this known during the pre-departure event held for 2020/2021 session Chevening Scholars ... Read more

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court, sitting in Ilorin, on Thursday, September 4, 2020 sentenced 24-year old undergraduate of University of Ilorin, Salau Olumide to three months of sweeping road and clearing of gutters for internet fraud. The convict was prosecuted by the Ilorin zonal office of the Economic and Financial ... Read more

Kolade Adeyemi, Jos. The chairman of the University of Jos branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), Dr. Lazarus Maigoro, on Saturday explained that the management of the Institution has not discussed the issue of reopening of the university and level of readiness with the Union. Dr. Maigoro, who spoke to the Nation, while ... Read more

By Funmi Ogundare The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), under the Y2018 FGN/UBEC Intervention for inclusive units, yesterday, presented vocational equipment and instructional materials to six inclusive units in Badagry, Eti-Osa, Ibeju- Lekki, Lagos Island and Mushin LGAs to boost teaching and learning. Speaking at the presentation ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), Akure zone has condemned the recent upward review in the pump price and electricity tariff by the Federal government, saying its adding to plight of the common man. The Union stated this after its zonal meeting also frowned over the plans of the government to re-open universities across the ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan Chapter, has warned against the reopening of schools without provisions for schools to meet COVID-19 precautionary guidelines. Its chairman, Prof. Ayo Akinwole, stated this in a release he made available to newsmen in ... Read more

Abiodun Nejo, Ado Ekiti The founder, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola, has urged the Federal Government to negotiate with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities with a view to paying their salaries and equipping public universities to make them safe for reopening. He said private universities had expressed ... Read more

NEARLY six months after universities were shut nationwide as part of the measures to contain the spread of the coronavirus plague, plans to reopen them are enmeshed in a whiff of dissonance. On the one side, the government, students and some private university owners reason that with the falling rates in infections and the examples from ... Read more