EDUCATION

The Kaduna State Government on Thursday demolished a school owned by the Shiite Islamic Movement of Nigeria. The government has banned the group amidst what appears a clampdown on its activities by state and federal officials. The leader of the IMN, Ibrahim El-Zakzaky is still in detention without trial since ...

Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, has been shut down indefinitely following violent student protest. ‎The students were reportedly protesting a 200 percent increase to their tuition fees. The University’s Public Relations Officer, Edward Aihevbe, explained in a press statement that the decision to close the institution was reached after the University’s ...

The Benue State Government says it is already working to ensure that the three major indigenous languages in the state (Tiv, Idoma and Igede) are taught in all schools across the state in line with the new National Policy of Education on the teaching of mother tongue at Basic education ...

President Muhammadu Buhari must have re-lived his early days as a secondary school student after he was caught doing this inside the class. President Muhammadu Buhari writing on the newly commissioned class desk in Edo State President Muhammadu Buhari has shared an audience with some secondary school students in Benin ...

The governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, has insisted on the termination of the appointment of 5,000 secondary school teachers who were yet to receive placement letter from the state government. Mr. Emmanuel said the teachers’ recruitment, hurriedly done in the last days of the previous administration of Godswill ...

The Senate on Wednesday said it had suspended its plan to amend the Act establishing the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board. This comes barely two weeks after it announced the plan to amend the Act. According to the Senate, the move was suspended to allow for adequate consultation with stakeholders. ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has hinted that it may cancel the use of uniform cut-off points for admitting candidates that took the Universities Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The issue of cut-off marks as currently being used for admission, it said, should be subjected to national debate by stakeholders. The ...

Some absolutely heartbreaking photos of some young school children who fell off from a shanty community bridge and died on their way to school which emerged online have gone viral. According to a shocking report posted by a social media page, Child Help Sierra-leone, some school children in the country, ...

The police today clashed with half-n*ked university students protesting in South Africa over high cost of university education. Some protesters at South Africa’s Wits University went half-n*ked exposing their breasts in protest to high tuition fees on Tuesday. The students clashed violently with police over the incident with many wounded. ...

A female teacher has landed in trouble as she appeared in court after allegedly sexually molesting a teenage student. A married teaching assistant appeared in court yesterday accused of performing a s*x act on a teenage pupil during a school trip. The teaching assistant, who is thought to have been ...

The Kwara Government on Friday said it had shut down 10 private schools built with wooden slabs and operating without due authorisation from the state government. Hajia Zainab Bello, the Director, Quality Assurance Bureau (QAB) of the Kwara Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development, told the News Agency of ...

Habiba Daggash, two months ago, graduated with a first class in Chemical Engineering from the Oxford University. She has now been awarded the 2016 Institution of Chemical Engineers Prize for best performance in Chemical Engineering at Oxford. Congrats to her.   SOURCE

Pretoria Girls High School is facing a furious backlash after instructing black school pupils to straighten their hair. Black school girls claim that they have been subjected to racism and that their blackness has been discouraged. They added that school rules forbid African hairstyles such as afro, Bantu knots, dreadlocks and ...

I was having my lunch in a restaurant in Accra this afternoon, when A friend started a discussion of what some of our female Nigerian students in Ghana have turned themselves into. I could not agree more. While the parents spend lots of money to ensure their daughters are comfortable and ...

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 ...