Educational

The National Association of Nigerian Students in the South-West zone has condemned the Federal Government’s plan to introduce N10 per litre tax on carbonated drinks. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, recently announced the plan while ...

The Captain Elechi Amadi Polytechnic, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has announced the suspension of one of its lecturers, Tamunotonye Solomon, for three months over allegations of sexual harassment of female students. The lecturer and a 200-level female student had exchanged ...

Sylvester Oromoni, the father of the late 12-year-old pupil of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos, Sylvester Oromoni Jnr, has restated the family’s commitment to get justice, saying that he would not bury his son even if it takes 30 years to ...

Rema will be returning to school. The singer has announced he has been admitted into the University of Lagos (UNILAG) to study Creative Arts. The Mavin Records-signed artiste announced the news in a series of tweets on Friday. According to him, ...

The Ijaw Youth Council has insisted on getting justice for Sylvester Oromoni, the 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lekki, Lagos State who was allegedly bullied to death at the school. Members of the council, on Thursday, staged a protest in ...

Abia State University, Uturu, has sacked a senior lecturer, one Michael Ukaegbu, over s3x-for-grades scandal. In a communique issued after its 148th regular and resumed meetings of the Governing Council of the university held on Thursday, the 16th and the ...

The family of late Sylvester Oromoni, Jnr, a 12-year-old student of Dowen College, Lagos State, who was allegedly murdered, has faulted the bail granted to the suspects by a Magistrate’s court in Yaba. On Tuesday, the Magistrate court granted bail ...

A Class 8 pupil was choked on bread to death at Sikura Primary School in Butula constituency, Busia county, Kenya after he was awarded a loaf of bread and a bottle of soda for being one of the most disciplined ...

  A Chief Magistrates’ court in the Yaba area of Lagos has granted bail to five students of Dowen College following a charge of conspiracy and homicide made against them by the police. The police charged the minors following the ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has asked all prospective candidates for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) to acquire their National Identification Numbers (NIN) ahead of the exercise. The board stated this on Monday in its weekly ...

A lecturer in the Department of Biology, Mr Okedara Emmanuel was shot by armed robbers who invaded the staff quarters of the Polytechnic of Ibadan in the early hours on Monday. Mr Soladoye Adewole, the Public Relations Officer of the ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has postponed its decision on strike, saying that consultations are still ongoing. This was contained in a press statement issued by the union after its National Executive Council meeting. The meeting held at its ...

The remains of the late student of Dowen College, Sylvester Oromoni, have been released to his family for burial. This was after an autopsy was conducted to ascertain the cause of his death, Punch reports. Police Public Relations Officer, Adekunle ...

Fifty students of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, have been rewarded with N5 million by the Chinese embassy for their outstanding academic performance. The ambassador of China to Nigeria, Cui Jianchun, presented the awards to the students on Wednesday ...

  Congratulations are in order for a Nigerian woman, Dr Kudaisi, who recently welcomed a baby and bagged a PhD against all odds.   Dr Kudaisi, who took to Instagram to express gratitude to God, revealed she contracted coronavirus in August ...

The University of Ibadan has emerged best University in Nigeria in the latest 2021 ranking released by the National Universities Commission (NUC), on Monday. The Premier University was ranked first in the NUC ranking which was carried out using twelve ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, Owerri Zone, has threatened a total showdown with the Federal Government over the non-implementation of the 2009 agreement. The union said during a press conference at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, on Monday that ...

  A 100-level student of the Taraba State University has been reported dead following a fire outbreak at the female hostel of the institution. The victim identified as Emoseh Lawi was a student of the Tourism Department of the university. ...

Tiwa Savage shares throwback photo from her university days The singer shared throwback photo from her university days on her Instagram page writing; ”It was my parents’ wish was for me to get a degree before any music  SO I DID ...

The Federal Government has said it is still reviewing the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding which it signed with the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, stated this in an interview with ...

Twin children of the Lagos State Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Musiliu Akinsanya, aka MC Oluomo, have graduated from universities in the United States. They took to their respective Instagram pages to share pictures from their ...

Edo State government said it will shut down Idogbo Secondary School in Ikpoba Okha Local Government Area of the state following the destruction of property in the school by students during a riot. It said the students who beat their ...

Controversy over the ownership of Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe University, Ogboko, Imo State between former Governor Rochas Okorocha and the state government was laid to rest yesterday, The operating certificate for the varsity was handed over to Imo State through Governor ...

Controversy over the ownership of Kingsley Ozumba Mbadiwe University, Ogboko, Imo State between former Governor Rochas Okorocha and the state government was laid to rest yesterday, The operating certificate for the varsity was handed over to Imo State through Governor ...

Some women this morning left their various jobs to stage a protest in front of Dowen College Lekki, Lagos to demand justice for the death of Sylvester Oromoni Junior. Just heartbreaking