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THE registrar and chief executive officer of the Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria, Professor Josiah Ajiboye, has insisted that charlatans will no longer have any place in the classrooms in Nigeria, as measures are being put in place to remove unqualified teachers from the system. He said it is now mandatory for lecturers in ... Read more

The National Board for Technical Education has approved Osun State Polytechnic Iree as one of the accredited institutions for Open and Distance Flexible E-Learning centers in Nigeria for the award of the National Diploma and Higher National Diploma programmes. This was contained in a statement signed by the executive secretary of the board, ... Read more

By Dirisu Yakubu — Abuja As condemnation continues to greet the recent increment in the pump price of the Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, and electricity tariff, students under the umbrella of National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Thursday, threatened to embark on a nationwide protest on Monday, September 14 if urgent steps are not ... Read more

Owners of private polytechnics under the aegis Association of Proprietors of Private Polytechnics in Nigeria (APPPN), has appealed to the Federal Government to immediately reopen schools which has been closed for about six months. National President APPPN, Dr. Moses Adeyemi, who made the appeal on Thursday in Abuja, said unlike public tertiary ... Read more

The management of the Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri has suspended with immediate effect, two lecturers who were caught in a compromising situation in a sex video trending on social media. This was disclosed to our correspondent by the spokesman of the University, Mr. Ralph Njoku Obi, while confirming that the two lecturers captured in ... Read more

More than 1,000 unqualified teachers have been uncovered by Niger State government in its payroll who could neither read nor write in the public primary schools across the state. This discovery was said to have been made during the teachers and non-teaching staff screening exercise carried out across public primary schools by the staff ... Read more

The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has successfully conducted the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in senior secondary schools in Chibok in Borno six years after closure due to insurgency. Brig-Gen Abdul-Khalifa Ibrahim, Acting General Officer Commanding (GOC), 7 Division, Nigerian Army, disclosed this while playing ... Read more

A new global survey by Save the Children, on Thursday, revealed that children who fall behind in their education, as a result of COVID 19 Pandemic, run a greater risk of dropping out completely and falling victim to child labour, child marriage and other forms of exploitation. It estimates that the pandemic has caused the largest ... Read more

The Federal Government says it has not come to a point where it is convinced that schools should be re-opened for academic exercise after their closure due to Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at a meeting of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on ... Read more

The Lagos State Government has revealed plans on how schools in the state will be reopened amid the Coronavirus pandemic. Schools in the state have been closed since March as part of measures to limit the spread of the virus. The governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, had directed all tertiary institutions under the state to reopen on September ... Read more