Education Archives — Page 11 of 18

October 21, 2020 No Responses

Kano Distributes N1.5b Instructional Materials To Schools

The Kano State Government has commenced distribution of instructional materials worth over N1.5 billion to primary and junior secondary schools in the 44 Local Government Areas of the state. Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, disclosed this at the inauguration of the distribution exercise on...

September 14, 2020 No Responses

18 Candidates Jostle For UI VC Position

No fewer than 18 candidates are in the race to fill the vacant office of the Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the University of Ibadan (UI) come December 1, 2020. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports on Sunday that the candidates who...

September 10, 2020 No Responses

Kano Approves N3.2b For Rehabilitation, Construction Of Classrooms

Kano State Government has earmarked N3. 2 billion for schools rehabilitation and construction of classrooms to ensure compliance with COVID-19 protocols when the schools resume. Kano State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Executive Secretary, Dr Danl...

September 2, 2020 No Responses

Kaduna Scholarship Board Rejects 63 Law Students Application

Kaduna State Scholarship and Loans Board has offered N18.5 million scholarship to 27 law students from the state out of the 90 candidates that applied. A statement issued by the Executive Secretary of the board, Malam Hassan Rilwan on Tuesday explai...

August 23, 2020 No Responses

Zimbabwe President Signs Law Allowing Pregnant Girls In School

Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a law barring government schools from excluding girls, who fall pregnant, from attending lessons. Teachers are also no longer allowed to cane pupils, under amendments to the Education Act, which became law on Sa...

August 21, 2020 No Responses

Ecobank Nigeria CEO Implores Graduands On Digital Technology, Agriculture, Others

The Managing Director, Ecobank Nigeria, Patrick Akinwuntan has reiterated the need for young Nigerian graduates to be digitally savvy, imbibe uncommon integrity, deep insights, accountability and excellence to be able to compete in the new world order. Akinwun...

August 20, 2020 No Responses

Babcock University Produces 66 First Class Graduates

Babcock University, Ilisan – Remo, Ogun State, has graduated 2,169 graduands, comprising 1,686 undergraduates and 483 postgraduates out of which 66 of them made first class. The Department of Christian Religious Studies in the School of Education and Huma...

August 19, 2020 No Responses

UNILAG: ASUU Seeks Visitation Panel

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to constitute a special visitation panel to look into the purported removal of Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as Vice-Chancellor of University of Lagos. Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi...

July 29, 2020 No Responses

World Bank Approves $500m For Girls’ Education In Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Four Others

The World Bank has approved a $500 million credit for the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) towards improving secondary education opportunities among girls in seven states in Nigeria. A statement from the bank in Abuja on Wedne...

July 21, 2020 No Responses

UTME: Institutions To Begin First, Second Choice Admissions Aug 21

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all tertiary institutions to begin the conduct of the first and second choice admissions from August 21. The board gave the directive in the 2020 admission guidelines released in Abuja by...

July 16, 2020 No Responses

Ekiti Gives Aug. 3 As New Date For Resumption Of Graduating Classes

The Ekiti State Government on Wednesday announced the change in resumption of students in graduating classes at both public and private schools from July 20 to Aug. 3. The Commissioner for Education, Mr Foluso Daramola, gave this new date during...

July 15, 2020 No Responses

Senate Passes Bills To Establish University of Technology Auchi, Maritime University, Okerenkoko

The Senate on Wednesday passed a bill seeking to establish the Nigeria Maritime University, Okerenkoko in Delta State. Also passed were two bills to establish the University of Technology, Auchi, Edo State; and Federal College of Education, Giwa, Kaduna ...

June 30, 2020 No Responses

Court Okays Suits Against Uni Abuja VC, DG SEC

The Federal High Court Abuja on Tuesday, granted the Centre for Social Justice leave to file a suit against the Vice Chancellor of the University of Abuja. The court equally gave the centre permission to commence legal action against the Director-.....

June 17, 2020 No Responses

Ondo Approves Recruitment Of 1000 Teachers, 432 Health Workers

Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has approved the recruitment of 1000 teachers to fill vacant positions in the state’s primary education sector. The State Head of Service (HoS), Mr Dare Aragbaiye, disclosed this on Tuesday in Akure, during a...