Educational

The National Association of Nigerian Students on Thursday said it was set to hit the streets except the Federal Government reversed the increase in the pump price of fuel and electricity tariff.   The organisation threatened to embark on a ...

The Imo State University, Owerri, has set up a committee to investigate the authenticity of the footage circulating on the Internet in which the Head of Department of Biochemistry of the institution, Prof. Emmanuel Agumuo, was allegedly having s3x with ...

The Lagos State government has said that only final year students will go back to classrooms, as tertiary institutions reopen next Monday.   This was confirmed by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu’s Special Adviser on Education, Tokunbo Wahab, while speaking on Channels ...

The Government of Ogun State has finally reopened schools, five months after they were shut down to prevent community transmission of coronavirus.   The state government said schools should reopen on September 21 for the first term of 2020/2021 session. ...

The University of Ibadan (U1) is the best in Nigeria, a new report by The Times Higher Education World University Rankings has revealed.   Over 1,500 universities in 93 countries and regions were part of the 2021 ranking. According to ...

Chadwick Boseman’s high school in South Carolina will create a scholarship in his honour following his tragic death last week.   Principal Walter Mayfield at T. L. Hanna High School is setting up a grant called the Chadwick Boseman Memorial ...

The Education Quality Assurance (OEQA) unit of the Lagos State Ministry of Education has warned the public to disregard a resumption time table flying around the social media.   The time-table claims to be the 2020/2021 academic calendar, states that ...

The National Examination Council (NECO) on Monday fixed Sept. 10 as the deadline for the registration of schools and examination candidates for the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE).   A statement by the Registrar/Chief Executive of the council, Prof. ...

Students of the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, are to resume in batches beginning from September, the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, SAN, disclosed this on Monday.   Speaking on a radio interview monitored in Lagos, he explained that 400, ...

Pupils who pretend to cough at UK schools  could be sent home when the new term starts this week.   At least two schools have warned students they will be excluded if they cough or sneeze deliberately at someone else. ...

Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu has ordered full resumption of tertiary institutions across Lagos State on Monday, September 14, after about six months shutdown occasioned by the outbreak of ravaging COVID-19 pandemic.   Sanwo-Olu, however, fixed a tentative resumption date for primary ...

Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, has directed all tertiary institutions under the state government to reopen.   The institutions were shut indefinitely in March to check the spread of COVID-19. But at a briefing on Saturday, the governor asked them ...

Authorities of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, (AAUA) Ondo State has announced the downward review of the tuition fees of its students.   A circular, dated August 26, 2020, issued by the institution’s Acting Registrar and Secretary to the ...

Head, West African Examination Council (WAEC), Mr Patrick Areghan, has given updates on candidates infected with the COVID-19.   Areghan advised students battling COVID-19 and writing the ongoing examinations not to panic, saying the virus is not a death sentence. ...

Zimbabwe has made it illegal for schools to expel pupils who get pregnant, a measure women’s rights campaigners said would help tackle gender inequality in the classroom and stop many girls from dropping out of school.   A legal amendment ...

  The Senate of the University of Lagos has elected Prof. Folasade Ogunsola as its Acting Vice-Chancellor. The senate gathered this morning August 24 to elect an acting VC.   The Presidency over the weekend asked the Chancellor of the ...

Head of National Office, West Africa Examination Council, Patrick Areghan, said the body arrested some of its supervisors who revealed questions to candidates before the commencement of the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination.   Areghan, who spoke during a ...

Some public secondary schools in Imo State are reportedly charging students N2,000 per subject to provide them with answers to questions in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination, SaharaReporters claim in a new report.The school owners met with ...

Singer and songwriter, Simi has questioned while formal education is still important as many who go to school come out, forget what they were taught and “end up doing something else with their lives.”   According to her, the “educational ...

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of Ghana said late Sunday that tertiary schools will reopen on Aug. 24 for students who have yet to complete the academic year.   The government will put in place necessary preventive measures to allow ...

The Senate of the University of Lagos on Thursday gave its backing to Vice Chancellor Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, whose sack was announced by the Governing Council on Tuesday.   Unions in the university  —  the Academic Staff Union of Universities ...

Osun State Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mrs. Funke Egbemode has disclosed that Osun state will revert to the 6-3-3-4 educational system.   The decision was taken following recommendations of the Education Review White Paper on the restructuring and ...

Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe has insisted that he remains the vice-chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG).   This is coming after Ogundipe’s removal was announced during the meeting of the Governing Council of the institution which held at the National ...

Students in Senior Secondary Schools Three in Ekiti State resumed on Monday for the commencement of West African Senior School Certificate Examinations. The state government on Monday announced the suspension of a school principal who was not available in the ...

The National Examinations Council has released the date and guidelines for the conduct of its 2020 examinations. This was contained in a press statement titled, “Making the Conduct Of Public Examinations Work in the COVID-19 Era”, by the NECO Registrar/Chief ...