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Gov Diri appoints BBNaija’s Nengi as Senior Special Assistant

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 ...

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NECO examination to resume on November 9

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 ...

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We won’t call off strike until FG yields to our demands ― ASUU

  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 ...

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We Can’t Go Back To Class On Empty Stomach —ASUU

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”, ...

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1.3 million pass WASSCE with the girls beating the boys

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 ...

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WAEC to release 2020 SSCE result today, November 2nd

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 ...

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Lagos directs schools to reopen Monday, November 2nd

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 ...

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FG and ASUU disagree on payment platform for N30bn allowances

  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 ...

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181 students, staff test positive for coronavirus in Lagos school

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 ...

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Law student goes into labor during exams, she made sure she completed it and even wrote another the next day (Video)

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 ...

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ASUU tells Education Minister to resign and go into farming

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 ...

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Rector of Auchi Polytechnic Dr. Sanusi is dead

                                                      The Rector of Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi in Edo, Dr. Momodu Sanusi Jimah is ...

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COVID-19: Kwara schools resume October 5

                                     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 ...

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Chinese teacher sentenced to death for poisoning children

                                                       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 ...

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N2.67bn school feeding funds found in private accounts —ICPC

  The Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other Related Offences Commission, Prof Bolaji Owasanoye, said the agency has discovered N2.67 billion meant for the school feeding programme in private accounts.   The agency, he added, also found over N2.5 billion ...

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ASUU wants end to ongoing strike, seeks stakeholders intervention

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ‎Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, (ASUU-KUST), has on Friday solicited for the intervention of stakeholders to wade in and prevail on the Federal Government to fulfil its promises to end the lingering ...

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School reopening: FG threatens fresh lockdown

                                                  The federal government has called for more vigilance on the possible resurgence of the Covid-19 ...

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UNIOSUN holds virtual convocation

                                                        The Osun State University has graduated 1946 students during a virtual convocation of the institution, the first of its kind in the history of the nation’s public universities in Nigeria.   The institution awarded 35 First Class on a ...

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