Educational

The Nigerian Government has stopped students in Senior Secondary School 1 and 2 from participating in external West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The students are also banned from taking the National Examination Council (NECO) and National Business and ...

Hillary Clinton has bagged a doctorate degree at the prestiguous Oxford University.   The university bestowed on the former US presidential candidate, an honorary doctorate degree in Civil Law. Sharing photos from the ceremony, Clinton said, “Thrilled to receive an honorary ...

  Babagana Zulum, governor of Borno state, has suspended the entire management of Ramat Polytechnic in Maiduguri. The governor paid a surprise visit to the state-owned tertiary institution, which doubles as his alma mater, on Tuesday and expressed his shock ...

Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello today, Monday, 20th September, 2021 assumed office as the Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University. Her appointment was announced on Thursday. She was received amid jubilation on the main campus of the varsity in Ojo, Lagos. ...

LAUTECH Professor, Abass Olajire slumps at Jummat service, dies minutes after A lecturer at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Professor Abass Olajire is dead. It was gathered that the don died few minutes after he slumped. The don ...

Wife of former Senate President, Toyin Saraki, has shared a photo of one of her two grandchildren.   Sharing the photo she talked about breastfeeding as she prepares for the 2021 Global Breastfeeding Symposium.   She wrote; “It is often ...

Caleb University, Imota, Lagos State, has said its internal investigation and information obtained from chats between a missing student, Oluwanifemi Olajide, and his sister, Stella, showed that the student’s disappearance was planned. Punch Metro on Wednesday reported that the student’s ...

Bring Back Our Girls campaigner, Aisha Yesufu is in a celebratory mood as her son, Amir graduates from the Regent’s University, London. In a tweet, Yesufu said, “When you were told your son will not be able to go to ...

A financial consultant, Oni Olajide, has lamented the disappearance of his son, Oluwanifemi, on the premises of Caleb University, in the Imota area of Lagos State. Punch Metro gathered that Oluwanifemi, an undergraduate studying Computer Science in the institution, suddenly ...

A student of the Rivers State University (RSU) simply identified as Emmanuel has reportedly drowned in the swimming pool of the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT). The deceased, a 100-level student, who hailed from Ogun State was said to have ...

A 23-year old student of Auchi Polytechnic in Etsako West local government area of Edo State, identified as Solomon Oboh, has allegedly committed suicide after classes on Friday.   The spokesperson for the school, Mustapha Oshiobugie, who confirmed the incident, ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Thursday berated the administration of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), for allegedly breaching the agreement it reached with the union nine months after it suspended its strike. The Ibadan Zone of ...

Amazon has offered to cover the cost of college tuition of all 750,000 of its frontline workers in the US. It comes as the online shopping giant struggles to attract and retain staff amid an industry wide labour shortage. The ...

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, ...