Educational

  The Head of Corporate Communications, Innoson Group, Cornel Osigwe, has called for an investigation into the allegations of certificate forgery against Mmesoma Ejikeme who paraded herself as the top scorer of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Osigwe in a post via ...

  Tobi Amusan wins women’s 100m hurdles at Stockholm Diamond League Nigerian hurdler, Tobi Amusan has WON AGAIN! She just shown she is the best on the tracks after she ran 12.52s to win the women’s 100m hurdles at the ...

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Sunday, said it would withdraw the result of a certain Ejikeme Mmesoma for manually inflating her result and announcing herself as the top scorer for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. According ...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities has rejected the Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards prepared by the National Universities Commission. The union said it was nightmarish, a threat to quality university education, and an erosion of powers of the ...

  Only three Nigerian universities, University of Ibadan (UI), University of Lagos (UNILAG) and Covenant University have been ranked among the 1,000 universities in the world 2023. This is captured in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2023. The ...

  Kastina State Government has shut down schools in the state for seven days ahead of the 2023 Sallah celebration. The government has declared a one week holiday for primary and secondary school students. The acting Permanent Secretary, Ministry of ...

  One of Nigeria’s foremost Communications scholar and a professor of Communications at the Lagos State University (LASU), Prof. Lai Oso is dead. Oso, aged 67, was reported to have died in an accident while returning from a conference in ...

  Late TB Joshua’s daughter, Promise Joshua has bagged a Master’s Degree in the United States. Veteran publisher, Dele Momodu shared the news on his Instagram page writing; “JOY IN THE HOUSE OF PROPHET T. B. JOSHUA… Massive congratulations to ...

  Ogun student commits suicide after losing school fees to gambling A student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, Samuel Adegoke has reportedly killed himself by drinking some chemical substance after losing his fees and that of his friend ...

  A former academic staff member of Waziri Umaru Federal Polytechnic, Kebbi State, Muhammed Sani Nuhu, has been sentenced to five years imprisonment for deviously allotting over N6 million belonging to the polytechnic to himself. This was after the Independent ...

No fewer than 35 students of Fakunle Comprehensive High School, Osogbo, Osun State were rushed to the hospital after inhaling tear gas fired by mobile policemen in the early hours of Tuesday. The mobile policemen, Vanguard learnt, were conducting morning ...

  Madonna University has congratulated one of its products Hilda Baci, the chef who set a new world record in cooking on the feat. The university, acknowledging that Chef Hilda is an alumna of the institution, awarded her scholarship until ...

  A cotton candy vendor, Ademoye Adewale, who sold snacks to pupils of Chrisland Schools Opebi, at Agege Stadium, Lagos during the school’s recent sports activities on Monday told the coroner set up to unravel the cause of death of ...

  The hearing of the coroner inquest set up to ascertain the cause of the death of a 12-year-old Chrisland School pupil, Whitney Adeniran, who died on February 9, has been fixed for April. The Magistrate, Olabisi Fajana, fixed the ...

  The Lagos State Government, on Saturday, expressed opposition to exhuming the remains of a student of Chrisland Schools, Whitney Omodesola Adeniran, who died under mysterious circumstances. Her death occurred amid the school’s inter-house sports activities on Thursday, February 9 ...

  Blessing Adeniran, the mother of Whitney, a student of Chrisland High School Ikeja who died on February 9, has claimed an autopsy revealed her daughter was electrocuted. In a post via her Instagram on Wednesday, Adeniran said she had ...

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, said it has dismissed two of its staff for gross misconduct. The board in a statement yesterday, gave the names of the dismissed staff as Mr. Bilyaminu Ishaku and Mr. Andrew Anebi ...

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has sacked two of its staff over alleged “gross misconduct”. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s head of public affairs and protocol, revealed the identities of the dismissed staff in a statement on Wednesday. JAMB ...

  So-called ‘TikTok protests’ have continued to rock Britain’s schools as hundreds of pupils rebelled against teachers over new rules, such as the introduction of unisex toilets. The social media trend appears to be spreading, with children in Southampton, Blackpool ...

  The National Industrial Court of Nigeria has ordered the reinstatement of a lecturer of Ekiti State University, Ado Ekiti, Dr Ololade Aduwo, who was dismissed in December 2019 by the university authorities over an alleged s3x scandal involving a ...

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced suspension of its ongoing 2023 Direct Entry registrations. The board in a statement by its Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, explained that the registration which commenced on Monday, February ...

  An official of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, slumped and died on Monday while on a queue at a branch of Wema Bank located inside the institution’s main campus in Ojo area of Lagos. The deceased, Johnson Adesola, ...

  The Lagos government has directed schools to observe the mid-term break for the 2022/2023 second-term academic session. Director General, Office of Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), Abiola Seriki-Ayeni disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday. The directive followed the amended ...

  Tragedy struck at Owena, Ondo East Local Government Area of Ondo State, when an SSS 2 student of Owena Community Grammar School, Mwafor Emmanuel, was found dead in a river. Mwafor, 19, it was gathered, went to the river ...

  Ahead of the February 25 and March 11, 2023 general elections, the Federal Government of Nigeria has ordered the closure of all polytechnics in the country. The directive was issued by the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu in a ...