Education

First Lady advocates quality education for girl-child The First Lady of Nigeria, Sen. Oluremi Tinubu, on Wednesday in Abuja called on the populace to equip the girl-child with quality education, to help them to withstand societal…

The Student Union Government (SUG) of the Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo state has said the lady who attributed her graduation success to the help of God and her private parts was not a student of the school. According to the statement…

Prof. Wahab Egbewole, SAN, Vice Chancellor, University of Ilorin, has assigned 500 user accounts of 300-capacity zoom licences to various faculties and departments for the immediate commencement of virtual classes. A statement issued on…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Wednesday disclosed that it has remitted N50billion to the federal government’s coffers in the last six years. The examination body also said it has expended N500m as Corporate…

The Executive Director, Small and Medium Enterprise in the Bank of Industry (BOI), Shekarau Omar, on Tuesday, hinted that it has disbursed about two billion naira to graduates in partnership with the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC).…

A London conference on Monday called on the Nigerian government to upscale its investment in education to pull the West African country out of endemic poverty. Speaking at a colloquium, marking Nigeria’s 62nd Independence, the keynote…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have called for a bill to regulate how children of public officers enroll in schools outside the shores of Nigeria. Prof. Kingdom Tombra, Chairman of the University of Niger Delta…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and heads of tertiary education institutions and other stakeholders in the education sector in the country have announced the minimum cut-off mark for admissions in the 2022/2023 academic…

The budget trend analysis of the education sector in Kaduna State has shown that the State Government spent a total of N158.1 billion out of the N225.1 billion budgeted for the sector between 2017 and 2021. The analysis, indicating a…

By Derrick Bangura The United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF), Chief of Field Office, Kano, Rahama Farah has expressed concern over the prevailing statistics of out-of-school children in Nigeria, saying the country has 18.5 million…