Ex-minister Adamu, UNESCO envoy Katagum, 41 others make ministerial nominee list

President Muhammadu Buhari has renominated immediate past Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu as a minister designate of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The president also...

Na’Allah: Newer heights for an ebullient and fecund academic

By Mahfouz Adedimeji On Friday, June 28, news broke that an alumnus of and former lecturer at the University...

The rise and fall of foreign second degree

In the early to the mid 2000s, as the quality of Nigerian university education plummeted and graduate unemployment soared, many Nigerians began...

Jakande at 90: LASU immortalises founding father with road naming

The Lagos State University, (LASU) on Monday, renamed the longest road on its main campus after its founding father, Lateef Jakande.

After 12 years, UNIABUJA recalls student expelled for protesting water scarcity

A student leader at the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), Igwe Uwanta has been recalled twelve years after his University expelled him for...

50,000 teachers may lose jobs as NTI delayed results release controversy...

Close to 50,000 teachers are at the risk of losing their jobs as the delayed release of results of students who enrolled...

SERAP reports Nigerian officials to ICC for ‘leaving’ millions of...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has sent a petition to the International Criminal Court (ICC) over the alleged negligence of...

EduCeleb journo among judges of Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards

A journalist with EduCeleb, Abdussalam Amoo has been invited to join the judges’ panel for the 2019 Wharton-QS Reimagine Education Awards.

WAEC extends WASSCE for private candidates’ registration

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced an extension of registration for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for...

Pioneer AAUA VC, Akinyemiju Akindoyeni dies at 80

The pioneer Vice-Chancellor of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko, Akinyemiju Akindoyeni is dead. He was 80 years old. ...

Posterity will judge us harshly if we allow the public schools...

Senator representing Borno Central, Kashim Shettima has drawn the attention of government and the Nigerian elite to the deplorable state of public education across...

215 graduate with first class at Covenant University

A total of 215 students of the Covenant University were conferred with First Class degrees at its 2018/2019 convocation on Friday, 19th July. They are...

At LASU, students can now give feedback about their lecturers online

A newly created portal on the Lagos State University (LASU) website now gives students the opportunity to assess their lecturers. Prior to this development, there...

Abiodun wants MAUSTECH reversed to MAPOLY

Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has sought the approval of the State House of Assembly to reverse the status of the yet-to- take-off Moshood...

Senate committed to legislative reforms in the education sector – Lawan

President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan has expressed the commitment of the 9th Senate in initiating policies and legislations to reform the nation's education...

Nigerian professor sacked by Ghanaian university says he was misrepresented

The Nigerian Professor sacked by a Ghanaian university over some allegedly insulting comments about Ghana, has said that he was misrepresented while the controversy...

Reps block move to integrate Almajiri in basic education

The House of Representatives on Thursday unanimously rejected the prayer of a motion seeking to make the Federal Ministry of Education integrate the Almajiri...

Remembering Amoloye thirteen years after

By Adesola Yaqub “The whole essence of politics and leadership is in itself defeated, if the people do not have references to point at, as...

House moves to combat cultism in higher institutions

The Nigerian House of Representatives has raised alarm over growing threats of cultism in Nigerian higher educational institutions.

Kaduna to sanitise private schools’ quality, employ more public school teachers

Kaduna State Government is making plans to go after some "underperforming" private schools in the state and may begin shutting them down soon. It...