Category: Education

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said no date has been fixed for the registration of 2021 UTME. The exam board on Tuesday in a post on its official Twitter page urged the public to disregard any news making the rounds on social media of a fixed date. JAMB noted that the date […]

A lecturer in the Department of Special Needs and Rehabilitation Sciences at the Federal University of Lafia, Mary Umbugadu, has called on the government to provide a conducive learning environment for Persons Living with Disabilities. According to her, the items that should be provided for PLWDs included wheelchairs, ramps in lecture halls and classrooms, television […]

An organisation chaired by Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (retd), Victims Support Fund, has said it will donate COVID-19 preventive items to 54 secondary schools in 18 states. The items tagged, ‘WASH donation,’ by the organisation would cost more than N200 million. The Chairperson, COVID-19 Task Force of VSF, Toyosi Akerele-Ogunsiji, made the disclosure at Baptist Grammar […]

The West African Examinations Council, Nigeria, has said that the e-registration for the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates will begin from March 16 to March 31. It said the offline registration started on February 15 and would end on March 15. Head of the Nigeria National Office, WAEC, Mr Patrick Areghan, […]

Vice Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in 2019 elections, Mr. Peter Obi, has encouraged students not to undermine educational opportunities, but see them as avenues of empowerment that will enable them to change the world. Obi said this when he visited St John’s Vocational and Technical Institute, Neni run by the Catholic […]

Protest rocked Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, on Wednesday, as members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), of the institution, kicked against non-payment of their allowances. The members of the unions shut down the main gate and other entrances of the institution around 10 a.m., chanting anti-management […]

The University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, has suspended its lecturer who was recently arrested for allegedly impregnating and threatening one of its female students. The accused, a senior lecturer at the Archeology and tourism Department, Dr. Chigozie Odum was arrested by the police for allegedly impregnating a student and going ahead to threaten her life. […]

The results of the 2020 Second Series of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates were released on Monday. Patrick Areghan, Head of National Office (HNO), West African Examinations Council (WAEC), told the media that 61,509 candidates participated at 540 centres nationwide. The official announced that a total of 5,548 results […]

CASIO Middle East has unveiled its new CASIO Lab at the Education Resource Center, Ojodu Berger, Lagos. This was in partnership with the Lagos State Ministry of Education and SKLD Integrated Services, CASIO’s partner in Nigeria. A statement by the Managing Director of SKLD Integrated Services, Mrs Temilola Adepetun, on Monday, said the initiative was […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said that the proliferation of private universities in the country will not solve the problems of access and quality education. While reacting to the newly approved 20 private universities by the National Universities Commission, national president, ASUU, Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, in an interview with The Punch, explained that […]

Nigeria Union of Teachers has said that the Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools is being sponsored by governors owing workers’ salaries. The union also stated that ASUSS was not registered and recognised under the trade union act adding that it was extorting secondary school teachers. While briefing journalists in Lagos and  Abuja on Wednesday […]

The principal, Lagos Preparatory and Secondary School, Ikoyi, Mr Gregor Polson, has stressed the need for schools to have foresight, understand the skills and qualifications students will need in a competitive workforce. Polson, in a statement by the school’s public relations and marketing manager, Lois Isemede, on Thursday, said the coronavirus pandemic had necessitated the […]

The Commissioner, Lagos State Ministry of Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, has urged teachers in the state to always translate new learning into teaching and classroom activities. Adefisayo, who spoke at the unveiling of the Casio Mathematics and Science Training Centre located at the  Education Resource Centre, Ojodu Berger, Lagos, explained that the lab would empower […]

Mrs Olawunmi Oladeji, member representing Ogbomosho North constituency in the Oyo State House of Assembly, on Tuesday, called for introduction of sex education in the school curriculum in the state. Oladeji, while speaking at the plenary, said that sexual-related vices, such as rape, indecent assault and sexual molestation, had become prevalent and pervasive in the […]

Management of the Lagos State University (LASU), has postponed all outstanding 2019/2020 first semester examinations until further notice. Mr Ademola Adekoya, Coordinator, Centre for Information, Press and Public Relations, LASU, made this known in a statement. Adekoya said the postponement became necessary after the strike action by the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU) and the Senior […]