Kenya’s Peter Tabichi wins 2019 Global Teacher Prize

A Kenyan teacher named Peter Tabichi has won the 2019 Global Teacher Prize. With this, he is going home with the US $1 million money prize. The Mathematics and Physics teacher at little known Keriko...

We’d use mass education to fight insecurity, violence – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to make affordable mass education a tool to combat incidents of insecurity and violence in Nigeria. He attributed crises in the most populous African nation to "ignorance" and gave commitment...

Water: The fuel of success

Life is a race; you become stranded when you refuse to run. The feasibility of every step towards success requires a fuel that releases the adequate amount of energy. This fuel is what makes up over...

Buhari signs bill stopping NYSC from posting engineering graduates to schools

President Muhammadu Buhari Friday in Abuja assented to Engineers (Registration etc) Amendment Bill, 2019, which among others, bars the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) from henceforth, posting graduates of engineering to secondary schools to...

TRIBUTE: Femi Ojo-Ade (1941-2019)

By Niyi Afolabi “You will always be my son, any day, no matter what!” Such were the re-assuring words of Professor Femi Ojo-Ade to me at an African Literature Association Conference at Macomb-Illinois, some 10...

WAEC to review workers’ salaries

The West Africa Examinations Council (WAEC), has disclosed that the examination body would be reviewing its staff salary. The WAEC Nigeria Head of National Office, Mr Olu Adenipekun...

UN urges parents to shun gender discrimination in the family

The National Information Officer of the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) for Nigeria, Oluseyi Soremekun, has urged Nigerian parents to think equal and shun stereotypes that discriminate against girls and women by training their children...

15 safety measures school owners must ensure

Conversations on school safety are much important than ever. School owners should always set safety measures ahead towards protecting everyone who steps their feet into the school compound....

How ex-student raped UNILAG undergraduate – witness tells court

A prosecution witness, Inspector Nkem Ejelonu, on Tuesday told the Domestic Violence and Sexual Offences Court in Ikeja how a former student of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), John Otema, allegedly raped a female...

UNILAG gets new librarian

The Governing Council of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) has appointed Dr (Mrs) Yetunde Abosede Zaid as the new librarian of the school. It did so at its meeting of Thursday, 14th March, 2019 in...