EDUCATION

Foreign students attending Further Education colleges are to be banned from working in Britain under a fresh crackdown on immigration ordered by Home Secretary Theresa May. When courses finish they will have to leave the country before reapplying to return for a job. Ministers say the new rules, which will ...

Three year old Abubakar Usman whose eyes were plucked out by some ritualists in Zaria, Kaduna state in January this year, has finally been enrolled into a school. Journalist, Femi Owolabi, who has been following his story, shared an update on the boy. Read what he wrote after the cut… ...

Students of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), on Wednesday took to Twitter to protest the continued closure of the institution. The students began the social media and online campaign after The Association of Campus Journalists OAU made the call, in a statement signed by its PRO. The statement reads in part, ...

Ivory Coast professor Honore Kahi, who was pictured carrying a student’s baby on his back in class said being a mother should not stop women getting an education, BBC reports. Prof. Kahi said he offered to take the baby because he was crying and preventing the mother from sitting in ...

A young Nigerian migrant Sogo Akintaro recently graduated from Cambridge University with a first class degree in Economics. On his Facebook page on June 26, Akintaro wrote: “Being a first generation migrant, a black male living on a council estate in South London, it’s fair to say that I wasn’t ...

Every Nigerian should be proud of this great stride. Last Saturday at Howard University in Washington D.C., out of the 96 graduating Doctor of Pharmacy candidates, 43 of them were Nigerians. Not only that, 27 awards were presented, and 16 went to Nigerians. U.S. President Barack Obama delivered the keynote ...

Until October 21, 2013, Martha Mbulungo was a charming girl in Form Three at Yumbisye Mixed Day Secondary School, Kenya, until her boyfriend changed her life forever in a vicious attack.. “This is a day I would not like to remember as the suffering I got in the hands of ...

No fewer than 254 workers, whose salaries have been stopped since February 2016, have dragged the Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, to the National Industrial Court of Nigeria sitting in Bayelsa State. The workers, who are teachers of primary and demonstration schools of the Rivers State University of Science and ...

Mother of the child allegedly “racially separated” at a creche in Centurion, South Africa has spoken out. The controversial photo said to be suggesting racism was leaked on social media last week. It shows a black child sitting alone at a table while six white classmates are having laughs around a ...

Four students under the scholarship of the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Niger Delta bag FIRST-CLASS honour degrees from the prestigious Canadian University Dubai. The degrees were presented to the students on the 27th of April, 2016, during the 10th graduation anniversary. The students who made ...

According to eyewitness, who is also a student: Since the school management told us to vacate the halls of residence for staging a very peaceful protest against the rustication of a student (Mote) because he participated in a peaceful protest in one of the halls (independence hall) and poor state ...

Students of the Abraham Adesanya Polytechnic Ijebu-Igbo Ogun state have cried out for justice following the assault on one of their fellow students, Folashade Leshi, of the department of Mass Communication. She was allegedly battered by security officers in the school yesterday April 18th. Entertainment Journalist, Mutiat Alli, shared the ...

Adalabu Seribor DECIDED to go to school at this age because he perpetually feel the pain of being an illiterate in this modern world where everything has to do with English and education, Vanguard reports. I also do not want a situation whereby someone else would interprete or write for ...

Security forces responded with tear gas Thursday as French students protesting proposed labour reforms hurled bottles at riot police in Paris and the western city of Nantes. The reforms, which were significantly watered down under pressure from a wave of protests, were adopted earlier Thursday by the cabinet of an ...

Daniel Ayodele Dada – Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, has advised UNILAG’s record-breaking graduate, Ayodele Dada, to be careful with money, women and alcohol. Dogara gave the advise while speaking with Dada who paid a visit to members of the House of Rep chambers yesterday March 23. ...

The Foreign Exchange (Forex) crisis plaguing the country, which has result­ed in the naira depreciating con­siderably low against the United States dollar, may force Nigerian students abroad into drug busi­ness for survival, Governor Ad­ams Oshiomhole of Edo State has warned. Oshiomhole, who stated this on Wednesday when he led some ...

THE National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, has threatened to review its collaboration with the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC on conduct of polls, following recurring deaths of corps members on election This came as the Federal Government, the United Kingdom and the United States of America, condemned the killings in ...

Anyone who went to secondary school in Nigeria definitely had that one teacher they wished dead everyday. These teachers are experts at humiliating or flogging the devil out of any unruly student. Whether they do these things in love or hate, the students only begin to appreciate them years after ...

A 19-year old school-leaver, Tobechukwu Igbokwe, who goes by the pseudonym, David Prince was on Wednesday sentenced to 37 years in prison for defrauding an American to the tune of $40m in an ‘inheritance’ scam. The teenager and his accomplice, one Ifeanyi Obi, had defrauded the American simply identified as ...

A school teacher, Mrs. Ayodele Grace,on Wednesday returned to the coffers of Ekiti State Government, the sum of N101,000 wrongly paid to her, as rural and core subject allowance. The News Agency of Nigeria(NAN) reports that Grace, who teaches in Ikere-Ekiti, was wrongly credited with the money meant for those ...