The Port Harcourt zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has maintained that it would not under any circumstance join the Integrated Personal Payroll...
The federal government has said it would be working with states and local governments towards shutting down substandard secondary schools in the country. Minister of State...
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has received the approval of the state’s House of Assembly to access the over N3bn 2019 FGN UBEC/Oyo SUBEB intervention...
According to the 2020 Appropriation bill draft released by the Budget Office of Nigeria, the amount budgeted for health and education in the proposed 2020 budget...
The Presidency on Tuesday said revenue accruable from increased Value Added Tax (VAT) would be invested into developing the health and education sectors. The Senior Special...
One event in recent history that typifies the nations’ education sector as an area in need of help is the ripple reaction that trailed the enrolment...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board Sunday disclosed that over 100,000 candidates who met admission requirements have been offered placements into Nigerian universities for the 2019/2020...
The United Nations Children Funds (UNICEF) on Wednesday, promised to lend a helping hand to the education, health and sanitation programmes of the present administration in...
Niger state government on Tuesday revealed that it paid N200 million to the National Examination Council (NECO) to ensure the release of results of 30,000 students...
A former Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i on Tuesday lamented the rate of unqualified teachers in Nigerian public schools. According to her, over 30 per...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has delivered a damning evaluation of President Muhammadu Buhari’s promise to use education to combat poverty. Reacting to Buhari’s...
The glory of yesteryears education system in Nigeria has vanished like the vapours of a dewy morning. No vehicle can run indefinitely without a refuel, just...
Governor Emeka Iheadioha of Imo State has revealed the state government’s plan to release N3.9 billion into the education sector in the state. This was disclosed...
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday in Zaria, Kaduna State, assured that his government will continue to work hard to ensure it delivers on its commitments on...
The National Business and Technical Examinations Board has announced that 32,673 candidates (representing 58.84 percent) that sat for the NBC/NTC examinations were able to score five...
Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufai has painted a bleak picture of the Northern part of the country, declaring that the region is backward, less educated and...
There’s a lot of truth in African proverbs, but there is one African saying that I disagree with. It’s the proverb that says “it takes a...
The European Union (EU) has approved a grant of €20 million (about N8 billion) to support education projects in Borno state. EU Head of Cooperation, Kurt...
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved N208billion for infrastructure and teacher training in public tertiary institutions. Buhari made this disclosure at the 23rd convocation of the University...
Sultry singer Simisola simply known in music circles as Simi has decried the stifling educational system currently being practised in Nigeria, blaming it for killing lots...
Oyo State Government has announced the cancellation of mid-term break for the third term of 2018/2019 academic session, for public primary and secondary schools in the...
The newly inaugurated governor of Oyo State, Seyi Makinde, on Wednesday promised to donate his entire salary as governor to Teachers’ Pension Fund. During his eight-page...
Jeremiah Adedoyin, a final year student of Department of Mathematics, University of Lagos, has won the 2019 National Mathematics Competition. Adedoyin emerged the overall winner in...
Plateau State Government in 2018 shut down no fewer than 100 schools across 17 Local Government Areas (LGA) in the state. The Commissioner for Secondary Education,...
Some retired workers from the Lagos State Ministry of Education have lamented the delay in the payment of their pensions. The former teachers said more than...
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has given the governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, seven days to reveal how much his administration has spent...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has de-certified 13 secondary schools and issued warning to 56 others in Kogi for their involvement in examination malpractice during...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has said that the letters of notification of strike action, which it wrote to the Ministries of Education and Labour...
Contrary to a directive by the Abia State Government, pegging tuition in its schools at N5, 200, public schools in the state appear to have ignored...
President Muhammadu Buhari has admonished parents to commit to educating their children especially the females in a bid to ending girl child marriage. The president also...
By Olakunle Olawole…/ I went to a bed-bug riddled school around Yaba (Yabatech) whose unofficial mandate is to make docile the crop of young people who...
The Elejigbo of Langbasa town in Lagos, Oba Hafeez Badiru, has lamented the absence of public secondary school in Langbasa, while pledging to commit to the...
What looks like a policy reversal has taken place in the Lagos State education system as public school administrators have been permitted to bill parents and...
Nigeria and some Economic Community of West African (ECOWAS) states will witness real growth in education in 2089, 73 years from today, so says a UNESCO...
Four months after the abduction of a former Minister of Education, 70-year-old Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, the Inspector-General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, has arrested the...
The gale of sacks of heads of federal parastatals continued on Monday, with the booting out of 17 heads of parastatals under the Federal Ministry of...
Minister of Budget and National Planning, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma on Thursday gave the breakdown of the 2016 budget which was signed into law last week...
A group, The Integrity Group of the Peoples Democratic Party in Osun State, have berated the state governor, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola and Prof. Wole Soyinka over...
Reports indicate that some agencies under the Federal Ministry of Education that have been dormant for years have however been faithfully allocated allocation, which are collected...
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has written a letter to the President elect, Muhammadu Buhari. In the letter he urged Buhari to shop around for Nigerians available...
