Education minister holds first online meeting with parastatal heads
In compliance with Federal Government’s directive on social distancing, the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has held his first online management meeting.
According to a statement signed...
Federal Polytechnic Ilaro students to take lectures online
Students at the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, would continue to take lectures online as they stay away from school due to the lockdown over Coronavirus.
The Ogun State based federal...
COVID-19: Kano govt to punish school proprietors who defy shutdown
The Kano State government has warned proprietors of private schools who refused to comply with the directives on closure of schools as a result of the coronavirus pandemic to comply with the...
Don faults scrapping Almajiri education
The Rector of Kaduna Polytechnic, Idris Bugaje, has faulted the plan to scrap the Almajiri system of education in the northern part of Nigeria.
Bugaje, a professor, said...
EFCC arraigns former provost, FCE Zaria over corruption
lThe Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Kaduna Zonal Office arraigned Dr. Moukhtar Ibrahim Maccido, a former Provost, Federal College of Education, Zaria, Kaduna State and one Annas Shehu, a business man...
COVID-19: At First Technical University, learning continues online
With the Coronavirus also called COVID-19 forcing all universities to shut down nationwide, the management of the First Technical University, Ibadan, has said classes will continue online.
A statement...
First Bank partners Lagos govt to provide e-learning to ‘one million students’
Nigeria's leading financial inclusion services provider, First Bank, is partnering with the Lagos State Government to equip and empower primary, secondary and tertiary schools with e-learning solutions and devices to minimize the...
Non-academics give date for strike over salaries shortfall
The Non-academic staff members of Federal Universities, Inter-university Centres, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education have threatened to embark on strike on 1st April if there are shortfalls in the March salaries of...
NECO postpones common entrance exams
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has postponed the 2020 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) into Federal Unity Colleges indefinitely over coronavirus fears.
The examination which was scheduled to hold,...
NSCDC has no control over security officers on campuses, court rules
Justice Evelyn Maha of the Federal High Court has vioded the directive by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) to universities to register their security departments with it, failing which...
























