EDUCATION

Six students, Yusuf Farouk, Isiaka Ramon, Pelumi Philips, Peter Jonas, Adebanjo George and Judah Agbaosi were abducted from their hostels- Yellow and Green houses- on May 25 by gunmen clad in police uniform. The six kidnapped students of the Lagos State Model College, Igbonla, Epe, were released on Friday through ...

A mother, Monsurat Ayinde , who allegedly recruited some thugs to beat her child’s teachers in a secondary school, was on Monday charged before an Abeokuta Magistrates’ Court. The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Adeola Adelaja , however, released her on bail in the sum of N200,000 with two sureties in like ...

The Publicity Secretary, Rivers chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Mr Nwankwo Ndukwu, has urged the Federal Government to recruit indigenous language teachers to fill vacancies in Unity Secondary Schools. Ndukwu told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Port Harcourt that many indigenous language teachers ...

The grouping of IRK and CRK under the Civil Education in the new curriculum by the NERDC which had generated controversy has been reversed. The Federal Government on Thursday bowed to pressure and directed the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC) to separate the Christian Religious Knowledge and Islamic ...

The Sultan of Sokoto has played down reports that the current administration is making surreptitious plans to islamize Nigeria following the alleged scrapping of C.R.K. The Sultan of Sokoto, Dr. Muhammad Abubakar, on Friday, rejected suggestions that there were plans to Islamise the country. He said Muslims had been canvassing ...

It was a day of celebration for the family of the Senate President of Nigeria, Senator Bukola Saraki on Wednesday, after his son, Seni Saraki graduated from the London school of Economics. The graduation ceremony was attended by the Senate President and his wife.   SOURCE

There have been outrage after photos of male and female secondary school students who were stripped down to their underwear by their teachers for coming late to school, emerged online. A Facebook user identified as Song Mudoh, has taken to the social networking platform and shared photos of secondary school ...

According to the European Union, investing in the education of women could end or reduce drastically the burden of poverty in Nigeria. The EU Head of Politics, Press and Information Section, Pauline Torehall stated that Nigeria must ensure that her women were educated in order to drive an all-round developmental ...

The Technical Director of the Lagos State Scrabble Association, Adetona Odukomaiya, on Friday said plans were underway to add scrabble to schools’ curriculum in the state. Odukomaiya told the News Agency of Nigeria that the association had been working closely with the State Ministry of Education to ensure its implementation. ...

Two final year female students of the Makerere University in Uganda have landed in trouble for wearing dresses that exposed their bodies. Two final year students of the Makerere University in Uganda have landed in serious trouble after wearing very revealing clothes to a university function which the school authority ...

Ozumba, who assumed office in 2014 as the vice chancellor of the university, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nsukka, Enugu State, on Saturday. Prof. Benjamin Ozumba, the Vice-Chancellor of University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), says the institution is on the threshold of ...

Deadly kidnappers who abducted students and teachers from a school in Lagos are said to have carved a hole in the school’s fence before gaining entrance. It has been revealed that the criminals who kidnapped six students and teachers of the Igbonla Model School, Igbonla near Epe at around 5:00 ...

The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) says more than 10,000 candidates caught for examination malpractices in the ongoing UTME in Anambra have been handed over to appropriate authority. Lynda Nwachukwu, the Coordinator of the board in Anambra, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Awka on Saturday. ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has renamed the Federal University, Oye Ekiti after the late General Adeyinka Adebayo (retd.). The Federal Government has renamed the Federal University, Oye Ekiti, after the late military governor of the old Western Region, General Adeyinka Adebayo (retd.), The Punch reports. President Muhammadu Buhari announced this on ...

In this 21st century which culminates with the wealth of Lagos State, nobody would have thought there is a high school where pupils lack chairs in classrooms and standard building structures. As Lagos State, Nigeria’s economic capital and one of the country’s richest states, marks its creation with months-long series ...

A shocking incident has left Nigerians baffled after a photo of undergraduate students of the Obafemi Awolowo University were seen lying on the barefloor. The only word that can describe this photo is, Shame! Students of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife have reportedly been seen sleeping on the corridor ...

Cojoined twins, Maria and Consolata Mwakikuti have talked about their future as they would love to become teachers after graduating from school. Tanzanian conjoined twins Maria and Consolata Mwakikuti are in their last year at secondary school and are looking forward to graduating after their final exams. The 19 year-olds ...

A student of Crown Polytechnic, Odo Ado-Ekiti, Ayodeji Oluwatosin abandoned her baby boy at Tayo-Tayo Medical Clinic and Maternity Centre, hours after she put to bed on Tuesday, 2nd of May, 2017. According to the report, she initially attempted to have the baby in her hostel because the father of ...

The leadership of the University of Jos has moved to curb the spate of s*xual immorality among ladies with a check on their mode of dressing. Authorities of the University of Jos on Wednesday directed its security agencies to arrest any student whose dressing assaults the sensibilities of the members ...

A 300-level student of Kwame Nkruman University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana, has been arrested for sodomizing a 10-year-old-girl. Apparently, Kwame after the evil act gave the 10-year-old a cocktail of painkillers which apparently, caused her kidneys to fail, which later led to her death. Kwame was then later ...