EDUCATION

A faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, known as Congress of University Academics (CONUA), on Monday, November 9, urged vice-chancellors of public universities in the country to recall students for academic activities. The appeal was contained in a statement issued by its National Secretary, Dr. Henri Oripeloye. According …

By Skybirdnews Group 1Million Teachers,  a Canada based social enterprise that provides access to high quality teacher education to severely underserved communities around the world, is pleased to announce the official commencement of His Highness, Muhammad Sanusi II Social Development Goals Challenge, code-named HH MS11 SDG Challenge. The HH MS11 …

  Charles Nwaoguji The Vice President, Prof. Femi Osinbajo, has affirmed that private schools will benefit from an intervention fund provided by the Federal Government but with conditions. He, on Thursday, noted that private schools, hotels, road transport workers and others would benefit from the stimulus package the Federal Government …

Nigeria’s Ed-tech start-up, uLesson Education Limited has expanded the content library on the uLesson app to include lessons for Junior Secondary School students. This new library went live on the uLesson app on July 7, 2020. The uLesson app launched in March 2020, with a Senior Secondary School library, covering Mathematics, …

By Christiana Ohaga, Abuja The Federal Ministry of Education has submitted details of plans on proposed schools reopening to the National Assembly. The Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, stated this on Tuesday when he appeared before the Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Education. Nwajiuba, did not …

Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, has advised students to take advantage of free education websites to learn, pending when schools would reopen. Mustapha also added that mobile networks have offered data discounts for subscribers for education purposes. He made the disclosure at the Presidential Task Force …

  By Pual Sogbetu On the increasing cases of COVID-19, Dr Owolabi was asked on this show to explain how private school teachers have been coping. Private School Teachers  demands  palliatives The Private School Teachers has called on Federal government to give them their own palliatives as it is done …

  By Divine Nwaoguji-Nweke The Joint Admissions and Ma­triculation Board (JAMB) has made an interim remit­tance of N3.5 billion to the Federal Government consolidated revenue account. This was contained in a statement by Dr. Fabi­an Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Media in Abu­ja. He explained this was part of Prof. Ishaq …

  By Charles Nwaoguji The Eko Boys High School Old Boys Association (EKOBA) has enjoined the Lagos State Government to take steps to immortalize the Late Oba Idowu Abiodun Oniru of Iruland for his sterling contributions to the ongoing development of the State as a mega city. National President of …

  By Charles Nwaoguji   The Chairman of ACCERS – Accounting Education and Research Services, Mrs. Morenike Babington-Ashaye  has identified poor funding, lack of policy implementation and lack of infrastructure as major threats to achieving functional education in Nigeria. Mrs Ashaye, who stated this at the UPG2019 Towards A Greater …