The Nnamdi Azikiwe University (unizik) screening exercise for Direct Entry candidates application form is currently now on sale, and using t...
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3 Students Badly Injured As Gunmen Storm ESUT
Three students of the Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), Agbani, are battling for their lives at the University of Nig...
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FUTA Academic Calendar for 2014/2015 Academic Session
PASTED TO SENATE BUILDING Members of Staff and Students are hereby informed that Senate at its 247th Statutory Meeting held on Wednesday...
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Obasanjo Enrols For PhD At NOUN
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has enrolled for a Master of Arts (MA) and PhD degrees at the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN)...
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Olusegun Obasanjo Back To School
Nigeria’s former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, is set to go back to school for a higher degree in Christian Theology, after obtaining a Pos...
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We‘ll take position on schools’ resumption after Sallah – NUT
The leadership of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT, has said that the body would soon take a position as regards when it would be appr...
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Coy renovates bathroom at University of Lagos
IL Bagno Limited, one of the leading interior decoration companies in Nigeria, has renovated a bathroom at the University of Lagos.
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Sensitisation on continuous medical education
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Education is scary
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Remit our pension fund, pay our salary arrears, COEASU, SSUCEN cry out
MEMBERS of the Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) and Senior Staff Union of Colleges of Education, Nigeria (SSUCEN), Adenir...
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Imperial College alumni pledges support for Science, Technology education
IN a bid to assist the furtherance of education in Nigeria, the Imperial College Alumni Association of Nigeria has urged the Nigerian gradu...
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Dearth of qualified English, Maths teachers hit Lagos schools
THE National Union of Teachers, NUT Lagos State, has raised an alarm over shortage of qualified English language and Mathematics teachers i...
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Ministry, ASCSN meet over strike in unity schools
THE Federal Ministry of Labour and Productivity has stepped into the strike called by the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (A...
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Adefemi: Ife example in learning beyond classroom
WITH the emergence of global knowledge-based economy, universities including those in developing countries like Nigeria are taking on anothe...
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Onyekakeyah: Why there is mass failure in WAEC exams
TWO most critical factors responsible for the continued annual mass failure in WAEC and NECO exams are the under-aged status of most cand...
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TETFund to disburse N135bn to tertiary institutions
… Rakes in N279bn from education tax Chairman, Board of Trustees (BoT), Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Dr. Musa Babayo, yest...
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Polytechnics, Colleges of Education Workers Alert FG on Plans to Resume Strike
Workers in the nation’s polytechnics and Colleges of Education have alerted the federal government of plans to resume its suspended strike ...
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Hygiene in schools
They said anything that has advantage has disadvantage, Ebola has brought back hygiene in our schools. So let the tempo be maintained.
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Ex-VC seeks to unseat Okorocha
A former Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Prof. Jude Njoku, has said that he would unseat the incumbent Gove...
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Release of N30bn, a positive development – NASU
The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions has described the release of N30bn to federal universities and inter...
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MDCN rates LAUTECH medical students high
The Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria has said that graduates of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology College of Health Sciences...
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Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) Re-Opened
The management of Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ogun State has ordered the reopening of the school which was shut in August based on th...
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Knocks, kudos as Lagos shifts schools’ resumption over Ebola
MIXED reactions have continued to trail the sudden shift in the resumption date for schools in Lagos State from Monday, September 22 to Wedn...
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Private, public schools in Rivers comply with October 6, resumption
The Rivers State Ministry of Education says public and private schools in the State will re-open on Monday 6th October, 2014. The Permanent ...
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GLAUCOMA sufferers can now heave a sigh of relief as medical scientists at the Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago...
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Reps’ oversight functions not to witch-hunt varsities —Aminu
Chairman, House Committee on Education, Hon. Aminu Suleiman has said that the essence of the committee’s oversight function was not...
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Education deserves 26% of government budget —Lawmaker
The Chairman, House of Assembly Committee on Education, Osun State, Hon. Folorunso Bamisayemi has called for 26 per cent budgetary allocatio...
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AOCOED workers vow to continue strike
The two major unions at the Adeniran Ogunsaya College of Education, Ijanikin, Lagos State, namely; Colleges of Education Academic Staff U...
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Medical college needs more fund, says president
The President, National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria (NPMCN), Ijanikin, Lagos, Prof. Rasheed Arogundade has appealed to the Fede...
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Babcock won’t compromise standard –VC
The Vice-Chancellor, Babcock University, Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, Prof. Kayode Makinde has promised that the institution would not relent i...
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The Vice- Chancellor of Kogi State University, Anyingba, Prof. Hassan Isah has disclosed that the university remains the best in the countr...
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Amaechi promises RIVPOLY more facilities
RIVERS State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, has said despite reduction in the internally generated revenue of the state, his government would...
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2015: NYSC chief urges corps members, workers on neutrality
THE Director-General of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Olawunmi Johnson, has urged workers and members of the scheme...
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Don’t Admit Schoolgirls In Kaduna, BBOG, Chibok Community Tells Borno Govt
The #BringBackOurGirls group and the Chibok community in Abuja yesterday kicked against the idea of admitting some of the escaped girls in...
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Adigun: WAEC results and limits of propaganda
FOR about three years since 2011, one has watched with increased trepidation the non-challance of the Oyo State Government in handling issu...
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UNIUYO bomb scare: More suspects in police net
Akwa Ibom State Police Command has confirmed making more arrests in connection with the alleged attempt by a 100-level student of medica...
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WAEC results: 24th position of Oyo unacceptable – Makinde
Following the 2014 published results of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) in which Oyo State emerged 24th out of the 36 states...
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Court to Deliver Judgment on Use of Hijab in Lagos Schools
An Ikeja High Court will today deliver judgment on whether or not the use of hijab (Muslim head-scarf) should be allowed for Muslim stude...
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American University of Nigeria Says 15, Not Six Chibok Girls on Scholarship
Contrary to earlier reports that six Chibok girls are on scholarship at the Atiku Abubakar-owned American University of Nigeria (AUN), th...
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Stakeholders seek safer environment for pupils, as schools resume
As schools resumed on Monday across the country and with many more resuming in the next few weeks for the 2014/ 2015 academic session, the i...
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Activists hail UNICEF, FG’s cash-for-girls programme
Child rights activists have lauded a fresh education initiative aimed at helping parents in the North pay for the textbooks and other school...
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LASG, group plan more libraries to boost learning
Zaccheus Onumba Dibiaezue Memorial Libraries is to collaborate with the Lagos State Government to promote literacy and reading in primary sc...
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British Council, Oando unveil $6m initiative for pupils
Oando Foundation and the British Council have inaugurated Reach a Girl, Teach a Girl: Girls’ School Enrollment in Nigeria to reduce the numb...
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Dilapilated structures, abandoned projects litter UNN
NSUKKA—Nigeria’s first indigenous university, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, known for academic excellence is said to be facing hard ti...
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Award-winning filmmaker joins AUN Faculty
PRESIDENT, American University of Nigeria (AUN), Dr. Margee Ensign, has said that the need to train communication students in investigative ...
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Varsities Talk: Bringing back university life to the North-East
THIS article could easily have been titled The Lost Generation of The North-East of Nigeria and it would still be apt.One of the untold stor...
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NAEC unveils E-learning centre
A POPULAR saying goes thus: “What you hear, you forget; what you see, you remember; what you do, you understand.” To make learning more func...
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Private, public schools in Rivers comply with October 6, resumption
The Rivers State Ministry of Education says public and private schools in the State will re-open on Monday 6th October, 2014. The Permanent ...
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Knocks, kudos as Lagos shifts schools’ resumption over Ebola
MIXED reactions have continued to trail the sudden shift in the resumption date for schools in Lagos State from Monday, September 22 to Wedn...
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Ebola: States divided over Sept 22 resumption
Controversies last Monday, continued to trail Federal Government’s directive for public and private primary and secondary schools to resume ...
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Wogu empowers 850 unemployed, awards scholarships
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Switzerland University appoints Nigerian as don
SWITZERLAND University has appointed a Nigerian, Gbenga Olowoye as Associate Professor in Strategic Management and Entrepreneurship.
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NUC to approve nine more private varsities
THE Nigerian Universities Commission (NUC) has announced the recommendation of nine more private universities for accreditation in Nigeria...
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Disquiet over missing undergraduate
• AFTER waiting earnestly for the release of her son, Emeka Kevin Shoremekun, a 19- year-old, 200-level Mass Communication student of Nnamdi...
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NYSC’s exploitative call-up fee
The planned introduction of a N4000 fee for accessing and downloading of call-up letters for prospective members of the National Youth S...
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NYSC may review N4,000 online registration – DG
There are indications that the National Youth Service Corps may bow to public pressure and reduce the controversial N4,000 online registrati...
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PDP blames Aregbesola for Osun’s poor WASSCE result
The Peoples Democratic Party has blamed the education policy of Governor Rauf Aregbesola for the poor performance of Osun State students in ...
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Ebola: Teachers in Cross River, Imo, Abia, Benue, Akwa Ibom refuse to resume
Despite Cross River State government’s directive that schools should be reopened, most schools remained shut yesterday, as teachers insisted...
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Schools open in Lagos Kogi, Delta, Ondo
Private schools in Lagos State resumed yesterday, despite the state’s postponement of resumption till October 8. However, it appears ther...
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Schools resumption news
PUBLIC and private primary and secondary schools on Monday resumed across the Federal Capital Territory without necessary arrangement...
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Education ministry, unity schools shut over unpaid allowances •...We didn’t receive N1.8bn —Ministry
GOVERNMENT activities at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Education were paralyzed on Monday by the indefinite strike declared b...
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Halting the Ebola spread: LAUTECH moves to safeguard border towns
A disease that has no cure must be prevented. This is the approach public health professionals propose to contain such diseases as Ebola ...
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Ebola: Imo Schools’ Resumption Date Indefinite
Students and pupils of Imo State public schools will have to wait for a while before resuming school as the state chapter of the Nigeria Uni...
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Lagos empowers 8,000 teachers on Ebola response
NO less than 8,000 public school teachers have been trained by the Lagos State government on the signs and symptoms of the Ebola Virus Dise...
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WAEC results confirm neglect of education in Oyo
For about three years since now, one has watched with increased trepidation the attitude of Oyo State Government in handling issues rela...
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Private Schools Open, Public Schools Remain Shut in Abia
It was different strokes for different folks Monday as students of private schools in Abia were ushered into a new academic session while...
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.UNICAL Don Faults Eagles’ Return to FCT
The Director of Sports of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), Dr. Sam Iheanacho, has faulted recent directive by the Nati...
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A’Ibom Shifts Schools’ Resumption to September 29
State NUT says no until demands are met Bayelsa govt, teachers on warpath over resumption Segun James in Yenagoa and Okon Bassey in Uyo...
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Private Schools Resume in Abuja, as NUT Strike Grounds Public Schools
Many private schools resumed in Abuja Monday in line with the September 22 date resumption date as advised by the Federal Ministry of He...
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UNICEF begins cash for girls’ education in Sokoto
About 23,000 girls in the northern Nigeria are set to receive cash to pay for textbooks and other school-related costs as part of a UNICEF-s...
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Ebola: Taraba NUT Directs Members Not To Resume
Following the inability of Taraba State government to provide necessary preventive equipment to schools to tackle the spread of Ebola in t...
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Mass failure: Could ICT have made the difference?
WHEN the Information and Communications Technology,ICT, revolution began in Nigeria at the beginning of this century, stakeholders in the ed...
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Mass failure in WASSCE: Old problem, new challenges
The recently released results of the West Africa Examination Council, WAEC, Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, for May/June 2014 h...
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How Vivian got the only national scholarship slot in UK
HOW can we best describe a person who made a First Class honours in a course of study and also repeated the same performance in a national c...
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Every administrator desires career success, but not all of them have been able to achieve success in their various positions. Professor Char...
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Nasarawa University industrial devt goal, by Professor Muhammad Akaro Mainoma, Vice Chancellor
In this part of the world where many people still believe that the best way to achieve result is by cutting corners, Professor Muhammad Ak...
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Amaechi seeks proper funding of education
PORT HARCOURT— Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has called for proper funding of education in the country.Speaking at the 18-20th con...
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Ebola: Confusion over schools’ resumption
LAGOS—As both primary and secondary schools nationwide are expected to resume today in compliance with the directive by the Federal Governme...
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Tunde-Ojo’s day of honour, Rotary Club donates ICT lab to school
THE honour was fitting for Fikayo Tunde-Ojo as she mounted the exalted seat of the presidency of Rotary Club of Ogudu GRA, Rotary Internati...
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Govt must fund education to ensure development –Amaechi
Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi has expressed the need for government to improve on funding of the education sector to achiev...
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PTDF pays overseas scholars with naira debit cards
The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) has begun the implementation of a new policy of remitting the allowances of its scholars s...
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THE DECLINE OF NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES
There is still insufficient investment in tertiary education In what has become a scandalous annual embarrassment, Nigerian universities s...
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Stop the looting at NYSC
The National Youths Service Corps scheme, has outlived its usefulness. It has since become a cesspool of corruption, an ugly blight on the n...
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NYSC’s gratuitous call-up fee
Since announcing the plan to computerise the call-up process of the National Youth Service Corps, the authorities of the scheme have come un...
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Ebola: Lagos teachers vow not to resume Monday
The Nigeria Union of Teachers on Saturday warned the Lagos State Government against coercing its members to resume for the 2014/2015 academi...
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