Educational

Nigeria’s minister of education, Adamu Adamu, on Monday, gave a three-month deadline to the newly inaugurated committee saddled with the responsibility of renegotiating the 2009 agreement between the government and the university workers’ unions including the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), ...

The Principal of Community Secondary School in Okuru Ama, Port Harcourt City Local Government Area of Rivers State, Pastor Sylvanus Toby has been arraigned before a Magistrate Court on a two – count charge of conspiracy and criminality. Toby and ...

First female Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Edo State, Professor Grace Alele-Williams is dead. She died at 90. The renowned academician who was the first Nigerian woman to receive a doctorate degree in Mathematics reportedly passed on Friday, ...

Former Lagos State Governor, Mr. Bola Ahmed Tinubu yesterday, donated the sum of N1 billion for the establishment of a Centre of Leadership Development at the Lagos State University. The Lagos State Deputy Governor, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat, who represented Tinubu, ...

The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) on Sunday directed its members to begin a two-week warning strike on Monday. NAAT President, Ibeji Nwokoma, in a statement, alleged the failure of the Federal Government to implement the 2009 agreement. He ...

  Public school teachers in primary and secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State on Wednesday embarked on an indefinite strike over the state government’s alleged refusal to meet their demands. The indefinite strike came as a last resort for the ...

A Consultant Pathologist at the Central Hospital, Warri, Delta State, Dr Clement Vhriterhire, who carried out the initial autopsy on late Sylvester Oromoni (Junior), a pupil of Dowen College, Lekki, who died in controversial circumstances, on Monday, told a coroner ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has extended its warning strike for another two months. The decision to extend the strike was taken at the union’s National Executive Council, NEC meeting held in Abuja last night. Although the union ...

Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday narrated how the fear of cane made him to abandon Arabic school while he was young. Obasanjo, who holds doctoral degree in Christian Theology, spoke in Abeokuta during the inauguration and turbaning of Sheikh ...

Bauchi State Governor, Senator Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, on Saturday, announced the approval of N100million by the state government for this year’s National Quranic Recitation Competition to be hosted by the state. Governor Mohammed made the announcement while inaugurating a 52-man ...

A student was reportedly shot dead and two others injured as the annual inter-house sports of Agolo High School, Ikare Akoko North East Local Government Area of Ondo State turned violent. It was learnt that event had started peacefully on ...

A 34-year-old worker of Nana Primary School, Delta State, Precious Oki, has been arrested by men of the state police command for allegedly stealing seven computers belonging to the school. Punch Metro gathered that on March 2, 2022 around 3pm, ...

  Motorists and commuters were stranded along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on Tuesday when some students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students, South-West zone, protested against the ongoing Academic Staff Union of Universities strike and the fuel ...

DJ Cuppy, on Monday stated that she had to quit DJing for a while to help her focus on her study at the University of Oxford. In a series of videos on her Instagram story, Cuppy said that if she ...

A 300L student of University of Jos, Henry Ehiz has reportedly committed suicide. Henry was found dead in the early hours of Wednesday, March 2nd, 2022. Henry who is a 300 level student of Actuarial Science was discovered dead with ...

Nollywood actor, Yul Edochie, on Thursday revealed that though he could afford to send his kids abroad to study, he’d not make such a decision. On his verified Twitter page, the father-of-four noted that his children would study in Nigeria ...

  An Osun State High Court on Thursday remanded in a correctional facility the owner of Hilton Royal Hotel, Ile-Ife, Dr Ramon Adedoyin, and six others arrested in connection with the death of a Master’s degree student of Obafemi Awolowo ...

A lecturer at the University of Ibadan, Oyo State, Dr Bilikis Babarinde, has asked a Grade A Customary Court, Iyaganku, Ibadan, to dissolve her marriage to her husband, Prof. Sikiru Babarinde. The plaintiff, who is a lecturer at the Department ...

  The principal of Dowen College, Lagos, Mrs Adebisi Layiwola, on Tuesday wept before an Ikeja Corona’s Court while narrating how the death of a 12-year-old student, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr., was relayed to her. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) ...

Students of tertiary institutions under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students on Monday protested in parts of the country, including the Federal Capital Territory, against the ongoing waning strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of ...

    Hammed Ayomo, a teacher and house parent of 12-year-old Sylvester Oromoni (Junior), a pupil of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, who died in controversial circumstances, on Monday, told a coroner inquest that he was not aware of any cult ...

The Management of Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku, has declared “No bra, no entry, no pants, no entry” policy into the school campus, especially for female students. Punch gathered that some of the students, who did not wear bras and pants, ...

DJ Cuppy said she sometimes felt that studying at Oxford university has affected her progress in the music industry. The singer, who is studying for her second Master’s degree programme, said this on her Instagram story on Tuesday. According to ...

The National Association of Nigeria Students (NANS) has issued a one-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to resolve its disagreement with the Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) or face a national mass action by Nigerian students across the country. ...

A Nigerian pharmacist, Blessing Mary Ocheido, has slammed females taking morning after pills! She says male contraceptives refused to sell because men understands self preservation. According to her, any man who encourages his woman to take morning after pills just ...