Educational

The Kaduna State Government has said schools across the state are expected to resume on Sunday, September 12, 2021. The State Commissioner of Education, Dr Shehu Muhammad, made the disclosure ‎while participating in a virtual workshop organised by the Education ...

A lecturer at the Department of English Language Obafemi Awolowo University, Dr Adebayo Mosobalaje, has claimed that he was “wrongly” dismissed by the university management for alleged s3xual assault. In an exclusive interview with The Punch, on Wednesday, Mosobolaje faulted ...

First Lady Jill Biden has resumed teaching in person at Northern Virginia Community College, where she has instructed students since 2009. Biden returned to the classroom on Tuesday. She is the first first lady to depart the White House, in ...

  Inibehe Effiong, the lawyer representing the family of late Kubiat Isaac Akpan, the prospective National Youths Service Corps member who died in Police cell in Akwa Ibom State, said that autopsy report revealed that the deceased was tortured to ...

The Abia State University, Uturu, has been thrown into mourning following the death of three lecturers at the school on the same day. A university source said the lecturers, Prof. A. I. Nwabughuogu of History/International Relations Department, Dr D. S. ...

The Management of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, has dismissed another lecturer, who was found guilty of s3xual demeanor against a female student. The lecturer, Dr. Adebayo Mosobalaje of the Department of English Language in the Faculty of Arts, was found ...

Lagos State Government has announced the resumption of schools for the year 2021/2022 academic session. Public and private schools are to resume on September 13; model colleges and upgraded schools will resume in batches from September 19. Commissioner for Education, ...

Classes in universities in war-torn Afghanistan have resumed with curtains between male and female students. Pictures have surfaced on social media where men and women can be seen sitting on two opposite sides of the classroom with curtains between them. ...

  Parents of a young girl have accused her school of discriminating against her because of her body shape. Shylah Johnson, 12, was put in isolation at Brookvale Groby school, Leicester, because she was wearing a plain black skirt instead ...

Ganiyu Oboh, a professor of applied biochemistry at the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), has emerged Nigeria’s best researcher according to the 2021 Alper-Doger Scientific Index.   From being ranked the number one in food science in Nigeria and ...

Afghan women will be allowed to study at university, but not in the same room as men, the Taliban has declared. The group’s acting higher education minister also said that male teachers will not be permitted to teach female students ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Tuesday, cancelled general cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions and gave schools the freedom to set their individual minimum benchmarks for admission. The Board took the decision at the 2021 policy meeting, ...

A 65-year-old man, Joseph Ugbene, a native of Egede, in the Udi council area of Enugu State, has said he returned to school to acquire secondary education because his children laughed at him when he spoke English and mixed up ...

  Popular Nigerian actor, Alex Ekubo, was recently recognized by Institut Supérieur de Communication et de Geston (ISCG UNIVERSITY) in Republic of Benin . The movie star was given an honorary doctorate degree in Arts and Culture and he took ...

Nollywood actress, Funke Akindele has revealed why she rushed into her first marriage. Recall the actress had married Oshodi big boy, Alhaji Almaroof in 2012. They had a talk of the town wedding, but a year after, the marriage crashed. ...

There were drama, anger, confusion, and protest at the morgue of the Mainland Hospital, Yaba, Lagos State when activists, a lawyer, and family members went to demand the corpse of an allegedly murdered student activist, Nurudeen Alowonle, popularly known as ...

  The University of Ibadan, Covenant University, and Obafemi Awolowo University have been ranked top in Nigeria by Webometrics in its latest rating. Analysis of the latest ranking showed that no Nigerian university was among the top 1,000 in the ...

The Varsity don, Ishaq Oloyede who remitted N30bn to FG has been reappointed as JAMB registrar. 66-year-old Ishaq Oloyede, a professor of Arabic and Islamic Jurisprudence brought innovations to the Joint Admissions andMatriculation Board since his first appointment as Registrar ...

An official of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Debowale Adegbite, has urged parents to watch out for withdrawal symptoms, to know when their children are abusing drugs. In particular, parents should be mindful of changes in the temperament of ...

  Professor Ishaq Oloyede has been reappointed as the Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari, on Friday reappointed Oloyede as JAMB Registrar for a second term of five years. Oloyede’s reappointment ...

Students Union Government (SUG), University of Jos chapter has raised the alarm over the killing of another student of the institution on Thursday.. THISDAY gathered that the victim, a 100-level student of the University was pulled out of a tricycle ...

  Cultists have been on a rampage at Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RSUST) in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Daily Post gathered that the clash led to the death of one student on Thursday morning at the ...

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has charged a dean in the University of Calabar, Prof. Francisca Ime Bassey, to court over her alleged involvement in a contract fraud of ₦20.6 million. Prof. Bassey, who is ...

Students of the Delta State Polytechnic Ozoro, on Tuesday, celebrated the exit of the Rector as the institution was upgraded to the University of Science and Technology. Photos posted online show the jubilant students sweeping the Main Gate to express ...

The authorities of the University of Lagos, Akoka have approved the reopening of hostels to students from Thursday, August 26. The varsity’s authorities also okayed the commencement of the second semester examinations physically on campus. This was contained in a ...