Educational

The Renaissance University, Ugbawka, Enugu State, has provided details on the death of a 400-level student of the institution.   The undergraduate reportedly passed on at a private hospital after a brief illness. However, his death has generated several reports and claims. The University has now come out to provide information on the deceased and the efforts made earlier to ...

A final year Law student at the Delta State University (DELSU), Oleh Campus, identified as Jeffery Tenumah Omatseye, last Friday, drowned in a swimming pool.   The incident was said to have happened at a hotel located in nearby Irri community, in Isoko South council area of the state. The deceased popularly known as Jephizzy, who has a twin sister, ...

Nigerian gospel singer, Tope Alabi has congratulated her daughter, Ayomikun after she successfully graduated from BOWEN University, Iwo, Osun State.   Tope Alabi showered God’s blessings on her daughter’s life as she expressed gratitude to God for her daughter’s educational success. Taking to her Instagram page, she wrote; “To God be all the glory. Congratulations to my daughter @the_ayomikualabi_ on ...

Students of the Tai Solarin University of Education (TASUED) have demanded justice for Pelumi Onifade.   The students protested at the Lagos State Court of Arbitration, Lekki, venue of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry on SARS abuses. Pelumi died in the custody of the Lagos State Task Force. The deceased was reportedly hit by bullet from policemen deployed to a ...

The Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force has shut down a tertiary institution following the discovery of a COVID-19 case.   This was confirmed in a statement issued on Saturday in Ibadan by Mr. Taiwo Adisa, the Chief Press Secretary to Gov. Seyi Makinde on behalf of the Task Force. The statement noted that the Task Force has begun contact tracing ...

Five members of staff and a student have tested positive for COVID-19 in a secondary school in Lagos State.   The Lagos State Government made this known in a statement on Friday. The statement was titled, ‘Lagos confirms COVID_19 infection in secondary school’ and signed by the Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi.   It read in part, “Lagos State ...

Bayelsa Governor Duoye Diri has appointed BBNaija Star, Nengi, as his Senior Special Assistant on Girl Child . This was announced during her visit to the state governor in his office this morning November 6. Nengi was also announced as the Face of Bayelsa state. Her fellow former housemate in the BBNaija lockdown house, Neo, who is currently in Bayelsa with her, ...

A man — Kofi Adjei Fosu, who sponsored himself through school has just graduated as the best student of his faculty — Law Faculty. Kofi who ride tricycle and also sold sachet water in order to pay his school fees was the best in the faculty of law at the University of Cape Coast (UCC). He graduated with a GPA ...

Panic has gripped parents and candidates who sat for the 2020 West African Examinations Council (WAEC), as the body withheld the results of all candidates that sat for it in all public schools in Ekiti State.   Parents and wards, who besieged their respective schools to collect the results released a few days ago were disappointed, as they were told ...

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has fixed new dates for the suspended Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) across the country. in all states and the FCT from Monday 9th November 2020.   The NECO SSCE examinations were earlier postponed indefinitely on Monday 25th October 2020 due to security challenges occasioned by the ENDSARS protests which disrupted the smooth conduct of ...

  The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has vowed to continue with its ongoing seven-month-old strike until the Federal Government yielded to it demands even if the strike will last a whole year or more. The Lagos Zonal Coordinator of ASUU, who lectures at the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta (FUNAAB), Professor Olusiji Sowande, gave this hint in a ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has disclosed that they cannot go back to the classroom on an empty stomach insisting that the Federal Government should adopt its recently invented payment system for Universities, “University Transparency and Accountability Solution”, UTAS as an alternative to IPPIS. ASUU also maintained that the Federal government payment system IPPIS, which was made mandatory ...

The West African Examination Council has released the results of the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, with 1,338,348 candidates passing with five credits and above.   Mr. Patrick Areghan, head of the Nigerian Office of WAEC announced the result at a press briefing today. The result shows the girls beating the boys. Areghan said 1,338,348 obtained five credits, ...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the release of the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). According to the board, the results will be released today, November 2, 2020.  The result of the exam that commenced on Monday, August 17, 2020, and ended on Saturday, September 12, 2020, will be out today by 10:30am. Writing on ...

The Lagos State Government has approved the re-opening of all classes in public and private schools across the state from Monday, November 2, 2020.   It said boarders in public schools are to resume on Sunday, Novermber 1. Schools in the state were shut on October 19, 2020, following safety concerns after hoodlums hijacked the #ENDSARS violence. Commissioner for Education, ...

  The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities have again disagreed on the payment platform which will be used in disbursing the salary arrears and the N30 billion earned allowance of university lecturers.   While the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige offered to pay the salary arrears and the N30 billion Earned Allowances of the university lecturers through the ...

One hundred and eighty one students and staff of a private boarding school in Lekki, Lagos have tested positive for coronavirus.   Lagos Commissioner for Health, Prof. Akin Abayomi, said the cases were discovered during surveillance and case investigation in the school. Giving details of the investigation, Abayomi explained that a 14-year-old SS1 female student fell ill on October 3 ...

A recent law school graduate wasn’t going to let anything stop her from completing the bar exam this month — even childbirth, lol.   Brianna Hill, who has a degree from Loyola University Chicago School of Law, sat for the first day of the bar exam on Monday, and halfway through, her water broke. The determined new mom said that ...

                                                        Teachers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have chased away pupils who resumed after seven-month of Covid lockdown.   The teachers under the aegis of the FCT Council of the Nigeria Union ...

                                              Oga oo, protests everywhere in the country. People are getting tired!   Students of the Delta State Polytechnic, Ozoro are protesting against the N5,000 Covid-19 fee imposed by the management. The protest, which started about 7am, saw ...

                                                            A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr Ogedi Ogu, has filed a further statement on oath before a Lagos High Court Igbosere, in a suit against Oxford University Press, over alleged wrong words ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has advised the Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, to with immediate effect, resign his position and return to farm.   ASUU gave this advice while reacting to a statement credited to Nwajiuba where he (Nwajiuba) told the striking lecturers to return to farm. Nwajiuba, while participating on a television program, had ...

                                                      The Rector of Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi in Edo, Dr. Momodu Sanusi Jimah is dead.   He passed on Friday night at exactly 7.00 pm. Public Relations Officer of Auchi Polytechnic, Mr. Mustapha Oshiobugie, ...

                                     Public and private schools in Kwara State are to resume academic activities on Monday, October 5, 2020.   A statement by the state Commissioner for Communications, Afolabi Oshatimehin, announced in Ilorin, on Wednesday. Tertiary institutions are however, expected to resume on October 12, 2020. The Commissioner said “With various trainings held for teachers, on how to protect themselves and ...

                                                       A kindergarten teacher in China has been sentenced to death for poisoning dozens of children in an act of revenge against a colleague that left one toddler dead.   A court in the central Chinese province of Henan said Wang Yun put sodium nitrite into porridge being prepared for her colleague’s students, sickening 25. The attack took place in ...