Minister of Education, Prof Ruqayyatu Rufai on Sunday said the nine new Federal Universities would commence academic session in April. Rufai made this known while addressing newsmen in Dutse after inspecting the permanent site of Federal University Dut...
Prof. Emmanuel Oladapo, a lecturer at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, says poor environmental performance is hindering sustainable development in Nigeria Oladapo noted in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Saturday that a lo...
President Goodluck Jonathan has directed that the estimated nine million Almajiris in Northern Nigeria be properly educated in order for them to contribute meaningfully to national development. Minister of State for Education, Mr. Ezenwo Wike, who made...
Sokoto State Governor , Alhaji Aliyu Wamakko has approved the release of over N 339.6 million for the payment of registration fees for two academic sessions for state’s students in tertiary institutions. This was contained in a statement si...
No less than 250 ex-militants have departed Nigeria for Malaysia to acquire skills in various fields, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports. Amb. Nik Mustafa Nik-Ahmad, the Malaysian High Commissioner to Nigeria, disclosed this in an interview with ...
The Adamawa State Universal Basic Education Board has promoted 407 teachers in Mubi South Local Government, the council’s Education Secretary, Alhaji Salihu Umar, said in Mubi on Wednesday. The board also distributed 28 motorcycles to super...
House of Representatives, yesterday, differed from the decision of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to cancel the conduct of University Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, in the violence-prone States of Kano, Borno and other relat...
The federal government is set to fight the dearth of professionals, especially teachers in the education sector due to the brain drain syndrome which has affected the country and in effect has resulted to the exodus for greener pastures. This was revea...
Dr Felix Igwe, the Chairman of the Rivers State University of Science and Technology Branch of ASUU, has advised the Rivers Government to follow due process in selecting a Vice Chancellor for the university. Igwe said on Thursday in Port Harcourt that ...
Pupils of Gomari Costain Primary School in Maiduguri woke up on Tuesday to discover that their school has been destroyed by fire. The school was razed by an overnight fire, believed to have been made by persons suspected to be members of the Boko Haram...
Many teachers in public secondary schools in Delta, have rejected employment by Christian missions, who have taken over management of 40 schools in the state. The teachers, numbering more than 15,000, including those whose schools were handed over to t...
Kontagora Emirate Youth Development Association (KEYODA) in Niger State has written a petition to the Minister of Education, Prof. Rakkayatu Rufai, to investigate the allegation of fraud concerning over N1.1billion grants to the Federal College of Educ...
Federal government has provided N12 billion for laboratory equipment and rehabilitation of infrastructure in 51 polytechnics in the country. The Executive Secretary, National Board for Technical Education, Dr. Mas’ud Kazaure, made this known on W...
The federal government has warned vice chancellors of federal universities to desist from creating duplicates of responsibilities for their aides as the action has placed unnecessary burden on the wage bills allocated to the universities. The warning w...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has stated that the union is not a pessimist group but a pressure group that has been established to ensure that the government does all in its power to make university education desirable for all Nigeria...