Worried by incessant killings of students in some tertiary institutions in the country, stakeholders on Wednesday called for measures aimed at tightening up security on the campuses and students’ hostels. The stakeholders, including a former Comm...
The Deputy Country Director of Action Aid in Nigeria, Mrs Ifeoma Monwuba, on Thursday in Abuja condemned the low-level of girl-child education in Nigeria. Monwuba made the condemnation at a news conference to mark the 2012 International Day of th...
The Executive Chairman of the Nasarawa State Universal Basic Education Board (NSUBEB), Mallam Abdulkarim Mohammed, has attributed the stunted development in the primary education system to perennial systemic corruption in government and their external ...
Niger State Governor, Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu saying that Nigeria’s education was on the decline and called on government at all levels to take practical steps to address the situation. Aliyu who stated this yesterday at Gover...
The Nasarawa State government has taken a swipe at the past administrations in the state for their insensitivity towards the education sector which has given rise to the high level of infrastructural decay, especially in primary schools across th...
The current Vice-Chancellor of the Gombe State University, Professor Abdullahi Mahdi, was the Vice Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) from 1996-2004. In this interview with MIDAT JOSEPH, he speaks about the early times university founded i...
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Wednesday set January 2013 as deadline for states that have not implemented the new Teachers’ Salary Structure (TSS) to begin payment or face industrial disputes. The National President of the Union, Mr Mich...
The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the 2012 June/July Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) result with over 50 percent credit and above pass levels in basic subjects as against 22 percent average pass last year. The council...
Gov. Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe on Thursday inaugurated a 17-member committee for the establishment of a state polytechnic. Inaugurating the committee in Gombe, Dankwambo said the body’s terms of reference included considering the desirability of...
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the purchase of 16 million textbooks and library resources materials for distribution to all public primary schools and Junior Secondary Schools across the country. The Minister of State for Edu...
The Niger State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Susan Gana, has said that 17, 550 senior secondary school students in the state have failed their 2011/2012 promotion examinations. Gana, who revealed this at a press briefing in Minna on Saturday, said t...
The Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT) on Friday sacked eight of its staff members for alleged acts of fraud. According to the institution’s Director of Public Relations, Mr Osita Ugwuoti, six of the affected staff members we...
Adamawa government has extended resumption of schools by two weeks following the submerging of 89 schools in floods, Mr Gabriel Hamman-Adama, the Commissioner for Education, has said. The Commissioner added that 45 other schools had been converted...
The Kwara Government said on Thursday that it would close down illegal schools in the state in order to re-position the standard of education. Alhaji Saka Onimago, Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, told the News Agency...
Nigeria needs 1,320,135 teachers to meet the demands of basic education by 2015, the Executive Secretary of National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), Prof. Mohammed Ibn Junaid, has said. He asserted that the nation needs to produce a ...