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The Nigerian Medical Association, Cross River stare Chapter has kicked against plans by government to commence a trial resumption of three public schools in the state Vanguard learned that each of the three public schools will open in three Senatorial Districts across the state on June 16, 2020. The association gave the warning in a press ... Read more

A Nigerian author, Chigozie Obioma, has won the 2020 Internationaler Literaturpreis Award through the German translation of his second novel, ‘An Orchestra of Minorities’. The award was founded in 2009 and has since been honouring outstanding contemporary works especially first-time translations “to rack up voices of relatively unknown authors in Germany”. In the past, ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Friday said the “forced enrolment of university lecturers” in the Integrated Payment and Personnel Information System platform by the Federal Government has resulted in the sacking of contract scholars across higher institutions. ASUU cited the Bayero University, Kano State, and the Federal ... Read more

Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has hinted that Junior Secondary School 3 and Senior Secondary School 3 students would be prioritised ahead of the reopening of schools in the state. Schools in the state were shut in March as part of measures to curtail the spread of the coronavirus disease. But in a statement on Sunday, the ... Read more

Aloysius Attah, Onitsha The Rector, Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, Dr. Francisca Unoma Nwafulugo, yesterday, inaugurated the institution’s management committee in line with the new Polytechnic Amendment Act. While inaugurating the management committee, the rector expressed happiness that the institution was among the first polytechnics ... Read more

The last month before the final exam (or the first one in your life) can be a nightmare that will wake us up amidst the night even years after. The extreme load in the college is tough by design, but what is more unbearable — it is psychologically exhausting. The constant stress makes us turn on our most primal ... Read more

Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte says schools will remain closed until a vaccine for the novel coronavirus is ready. Without a vaccine, sending children to school “spells disaster,” Duterte said during a late-night television address on Monday. “I will not allow the opening of classes where students will be near each ... Read more

Some City University of New York (CUNY) students seem to have mastered one online subject during the pandemic, cheating. The head of Baruch College’s math department said he and his counterparts on other campuses found a “scandalous” lack of academic integrity during recent final exams, according to an email viewed by The ... Read more

The University of Lagos currently ranks 1st in Nigeria, 8th in Africa and its Entrepreneurship Centre is adjudged to be 3rd in Africa by Forbes. All of this progress has been achieved under the leadership of Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos. His goal is for the University to rank 1st across ... Read more

The Federal Government has clarified that Private Schools that run International curriculum are free to conduct their third term examinations online on the conclusion of their syllabus. Minister of State for Education, Hon Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, who made this clarification while fielding questions from journalists at a news conference in Abuja, ... Read more