BUK gets $20m World Bank agric research grant
The Centre for Dry Land Agriculture, Bayero University Kano (BUK) has received $20 million World Bank grant for research and development in...
Committee investigating LASPOTECH crisis submits report
The Lagos State Government has received the report on both immediate and remote causes of the lingering face-off that had affected academic...
Buhari appoints new VC at Maritime University, UNIPORT
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Professor Emmanuel Munakurogha Adigio, as the Vice-Chancellor of the Nigerian Maritime University, Okerenkoko.
2019 UTME: Despite having qualified candidates, Nigerian tertiary institutions failed to...
During the 2019 admissions process, tertiary institutions in Nigeria did not exhaust over Five Hundred and Ten Thousand, Nine Hundred and Fifty-Seven...
Senator fears collapse of education sector as school closure continues
Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Education, Akon Eyakenyi, has expressed worries over the imminent total collapse of...
Nigerian universities’ decline in global ranking worries ASUU
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has expressed worries over the decline of Nigeria's public universities in global university rankings.
Ogun inducts 60 principals, 5 zonal secretaries
Ogun State has inducted 60 Principals and five Zonal Secretaries, with a charge on them to herald positive transformation in the education...
COVID-19: Nigeria lists isolation centres, other conditions for schools reopening
The Nigerian Federal Government has listed the creation of isolation centres within schools among other fresh conditions for the reopening of schools...
‘Technology can do their jobs’: Bowen varsity says after staff sack
The management of Bowen University, Iwo in Osun State has said the university decided to sack about 10 per cent of its...
COVID-19: Nigeria increases higher education research funding by N4.5 bn
As a result of the challenges posed by the novel Coronavirus in the country, the Nigerian government said it has increased funding...
Kwara salary fraud: NUT chair, secretary, others suspended indefinitely
The national headquarters of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Wednesday, suspended indefinitely the chairman, secretary, and account clerk of the...
Lagos TESCOM trains teachers in prep for the ‘new normal’
The Lagos Teaching Service Commission, (TESCOM) on Tuesday commenced a training programme for teachers in preparation for the realities of education in...
Oyo modifies school resumption arrangements
The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force has modified the resumption date for Primary six, Junior Secondary School III and Senior Secondary School...
Lagos conducts school building integrity tests ahead of resumption
As students and teachers await the possible reopening of schools after more than three months of sudden closure over spread of coronavirus...
COVID-19: Oyo teachers sensitised ahead of school resumption
Ahead of the 29th June resumption of its schools, the Oyo State Government has commenced a sensitisation of teachers in all local...
EFCC parading Kwara NUT Chairman, others illegal
By ONIKEKE MUSA Abdulgafar Oluwasegun
Still very fresh in my memory, the efforts of the immediate past Kwara State...
Court adjourns in fraud case against Abuja school owner
Justice Peter Kekekmeke of the Federal Capital Territory High Court, Nyaya has adjourned the trial of one Dr George Odabi, along with...
NANS wants govt to reopen schools
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Zone D, South-West, has asked the Nigerian Government to reopen schools so that young people...
Ex-lecturer sued for diverting N6m conference, PhD funds
A former lecturer with the Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic, Birnin Kebbi, Mohammed Sani Nuhu, has been arraigned in court by the Independent...
Kano considering reopening schools
The Kano State government is considering measures to put in place ahead of the resumption of schools.
Recall that...
