The Bayelsa State government set up a special security outfit in 2010 to entrench peace and security in the state. One year later, OSA OKHOMINA writes that the outfit may have been turned into a witch hunt tool against innocent citizens and opposition ...
The Sokoto State Government has spent more than N8.8 billion on the first phase of its university in Sokoto, the Special Adviser on Higher Education, Prof. Gajam Ardo, has said. Ardo told a Press Conference in Sokoto yesterday that the structures...
Shell Nigeria Exploration Company is to donate an ICT Centre to the University of Abuja as part of its sustainable development programme in Nigerian universities. This was disclosed by the business development manager of the oil giant, Dr Chidi ...
Non-teaching staff in Nigerian Universities under the auspices of Joint Action Committee (JAC) has threatened to resume its suspended strike by October 3, 2011 if the Federal Government failed to implement the collective agreement with the workers. &nb...
The minister of education, Prof. Rukuayyatu Ahmed Rufai, has stated that the national commission for mass literacy, adult and non-formal education has concentrated its efforts at providing education to the marginalised group in the country. Maki...
Would it be out of place to state that some teachers behave as if they are sent from hell to wreak havoc in the lives of the children entrusted in their care and as such, government should establish laws on the dos and don’ts of discipline in our...
A non-governmental organisation, Youth Empowerment Education Initiative (YEEI) has advocated for the introduction of History and Geography subjects at primary school level. Chairman, board of trustees of YEEI, Chris Edewor, said Nigerian children...
Nigeria’s education sector has been set back a great deal due to the misplaced priorities of government in terms of budgeting. Policy advisor of the Civil Society Action Coalition on Education for All (CSACEFA), Mr. Wale Samuel, in a chat with ST...
The federal government has declared its renewed commitment to ensuring that the strategies for the improvement of girl-child education are disseminated to all states of the federation, to enhance the reduction of high gender disparity in the nation&rsq...
The Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, is to be entirely repositioned, the vice chancellor (VC), Professor Mustapha Abdullahi has said, even as the ABU 1985 medical graduates have promised to give necessary assistance to the institution. Prof. Abdullahi s...
The federal government has assured that it is committed to restoring the lost glory of Kaduna Polytechnic, just as it commended the return of normalcy to the institutionMinister of Education Prof. Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’i stated this while receivin...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yesterday described as totally unacceptable the step taken by President Goodluck Jonathan on the recent controversy between President of the Court of Appeal, Ayo Salami and the Chief Justice of Nigeria, J...
Niger Staten Governor Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu has ordered the management of the State Polytechnic, Zungeru to sack all unqualified lecturers of the polytechnic in line with the teaching standard set by the profession. Aliyu, in an interactive sess...
The minister of Education, Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufa’I, has hinted that the newly established Federal University of Technology situated in the home community of President Goodluck Jonathan in Otuoke area of Ogbia local government area of Bayelsa State...
The Ekiti State government has imposed a levy of N5 million registration fee on private universities operating in the state which is renewable with N750, 000 annually. Besides, intending owners of private polytechnics and colleges of education are to p...