Educational

The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has fixed August 4, 2020, as commencement for this year’s examination, according to Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, minister of state for education. At the presidential task force on COVID-19 briefing on Monday, Nwajiuba said the examination will end on September 5. According to the minister, after WAEC examination, that of the National Examination Council (NECO) and ...

Help has come the way of 10 year-old Chinonye Nneoma Nnadi who was tortured by her guardians, Ifeoma Ozougwu and her husband, Jude Ozougwu. Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu, has approved the award of scholarship, up to university level, to the little girl. A statement by the Commissioner for Information, Nnanyelugo Chidi Aroh, Gov. Ugwuanyi directed the state scholarship board ...

Five graduating students of the Nigerian Law School have made First Class, while 632 of the students failed the Bar Final Examinations, the Director-General of the school, Prof. Isa Chiroma (SAN), has said. Chiroma said in a statement on Sunday that the Council of Legal Education had a virtual meeting for the consideration and approval of the release of the ...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has announced the resumption of both public and private schools beginning from August 3, 2020, after over three months of lockdown due to outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. Sanwo-Olu announced this while giving an update on the COVID-19 situation report in the stare, held at Lagos House, Marina, Lagos. According to the Sanwo-Olu, Senior Secondary 3 and Technical ...

A mother in Russellville, Ark., claimed that her six-year-old daughter was banned from a daycare because she wore a shirt that said, “Black Lives Matter.” Journei Brockman has attended daycare at “His Kids Preschool” for six months, according to area outlet FOX 16. She was told last Friday she could not return. Brockman’s mother, Deval Brockman, told the outlet her ...

The Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu led government of Lagos State on Friday, sealed-off ten private schools for violating the COVID-19 lockdown rules. This was revealed by the Lagos State Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, following massive monitoring of private schools by the state Monitoring and Investigation team. Ayeni disclosed that the team which she led had visited ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday kicked against the reopening of schools by the Federal Government amid the covid-19 pandemic. The union argued that the government must make resources available in order for schools to meet proposed conditions by the Federal Ministry of Education. ASUU National President, Prof Biodun Ogunyemi, made this position known on Monday while speaking ...

Study in-uk.com notes that undergraduate fees for international students from outside the EU begin at around £10,000 per year. At the postgraduate level, they start at around £12,000, and if you wish to study medicine or MBA, you may have to pay about £32,000 per year. The average living cost for international students is £12,180 per year. This can be ...

No fewer than 1,300,000 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidates may lose their admission into universities and polytechnics in 2020 over the delay in the Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This is the category of candidates who used awaiting results to sit the 2020 UTME, which held between March 14 and March 22 – a few weeks ...

Congratulations are in order for Nigerian actress Stella Damasus Ademinokan as her second daughter Angelica Aboderin graduates from high school. The proud mum of two girls shared on her page, the good news with pictures of her look alike baby girl rocking her graduation gown. Stella wrote: My beautiful daughter @angelicatooni graduated high school today. I am such a proud ...

Half a million Senegalese schoolchildren returned to class on Thursday, under instructions to wear face masks and keep a distance from each other, after three months of absence. The government in the West Africa state shut schools in mid-March in a bid to curb coronavirus infections. It initially intended to open them again on June 5, but delayed the decision ...

The Federal Ministry of Education has presented to the National Assembly a detailed proposal on its plan to reopen schools across the country. 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. He was in the upper chamber to brief the federal lawmakers about ...

Oyo State government’s decision to reopen schools from June 29 is insensitive, the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba said on Monday. He warned that such decision if taken could raise Covid-19 infection figures in the state. As of 10pm on Monday, Oyo ranked fourth on the table with 621 active cases from the 912 infections figures, confirmed in ...

The embattled Students’ Union Government (SUG) President of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro (FPI), Ogun state, Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji who was arrested by men of the state police command for alleged cultism on February 9, 2020 has threatened to commit suicide. Olatunji who was arrested alongside Olarewaju Taiwo in a suicide letter he posted on his Facebook account with the name: ...

The celebrated activist Malala Yousafzai has completed her degree at the University of Oxford. The 22-year-old posted a photo of herself covered in colourful squares and what looks like cream cake in a celebratory post early this morning. The youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate also shared a snap of her and her family posing with balloons and a large cake ...

The former minister wrote this on his website, saying it works and that has being his SECRET! Read o, lol. Ladies are like race horses: they must be mastered, tamed, trained, exercised and regularly serviced. They are like race cars: their engine must be revved at least twice a day. They are like precious jewels and rare gems: they must ...

Kourtney Kardashian has promised to teach her children about ‘white privilege’ amid mounting race protests. The 41-year-old Keeping Up With The Kardashians star has said that it is her “responsibility” to have ‘honest conversations’ with her kids about racial equality, even if it makes them “uncomfortable.” As her brother-in-law Kanye West joins protests in Chicago, after donating $2 million to ...

Two children have tested positive for coronavirus just days after primary schools reopened. St Paul’s Church of England Primary School in Wibsey,  Bradford, has written to parents to advise them on the need to self-isolate if they have come into contact with the two pupils, who are siblings. In a letter to parents on Wednesday, headteacher Cath Palmer reassured parents ...

A 13-year-old boy has become the youngest person to graduate from a college in California with four associate degrees and a perfect 4.0 GPA. Jack Rico now plans to study at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas on a full scholarship. Young Jack earned four degrees over the course of two years at Fullerton College in Southern California to become ...

Best examination so far! Lol, if you know, you know, chai, lucky students, lol. The Vice-Chancellor of Bowen University, Iwo, Osun State, Professor Joshua Ogunwole, has said the institution has commenced second-semester examination for students through the school online platform. Professor Ogunwole noted that the Second Semester examination of 2019/2020 will be phased saying that the first phase which is ...

As the nation continues its fight against Covid-19, the Federal Government has disclosed that it is thinking of sectionalising classes for primary, secondary, and tertiary institutions in the country ahead of school reopening amid the pandemic. This disclosure was made by the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba on Wednesday during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on ...

Mad o! Naira Marley has fixed an online concert for Saturday May 30th to entertain his fans. He was prevented from making his debut at the popular music and culture festival, Gidi Fest in April, due to the coronavirus pandemic and now a free online concert for Marlian Day has been scheduled for Saturday, May 30. According to a statement ...

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The Federal Government has disclosed that there are plans to soon reopen schools nationwide, saying, however, that this will not be done in two weeks as being speculated in some quarters. Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, made the clarification on Thursday during the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 news conference in Abuja following rumours making the round the ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Saturday described the virtual matriculation organised by the Vice-Chancellor of Osun State University, Professor Labode Popoola as a scam. Dailypost gathered that Osun State University recently conducted a virtual matriculation exercise attended by only principal officers of the institution led by the Vice-Chancellor. But, ASUU while reacting, lashed out at the Vice-Chancellor. ...