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Government should not be evasive when it comes to charging fees because "nothing good comes out of nothing, but we have to ensure that we protect the interest of the poor." Chairman of the soon-to-be inaugurated Abuja Branch of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) Alumni Association, Chief Chyna Iwuanyanwu, who gave the advice in Abuja, recently said, "Let us be very realistic. If we are aspiring to ...
A retired professor of Ophthalmology at the College of Medicine , University of Lagos , Prof. Ajesola Solarin-Majekodunmi has stressed the need for the girl-child to be given the best opportunity in education so that she could become one to be reckoned with in the society.
A Justice with the Federal High Court and an old student of Oraukwu Grammar School Old Boys Association, Justice Okechukwu Okeke has said that unless the education sector was given a pride of place in the country, it might go into extinction.
Academic and non-academic staff unions of universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, as well as students on Monday threw their weight behind a Bill for an Act to repeal the Education Trust Fund (ETF) and establish the Tertiary Education Trust Fund in its place.
Anambra state government has agreed to pay the long agitated 27.5 percent Teachers Salary Structure (TSS) to teachers from next month.
The 61st foundation day ceremony of the premier university, the University of Ibadan, peaked yesterday with the Visitor to the university, President Umaru Yar'Adua, telling the authorities that the university is yet to justify its premiership status .
The crisis in Enugu State University of Science and Technology (ESUT), which led to a three-day protest by students assumed a new dimension yesterday as a first year Microbiology student, Mr. Victor Mgbejiofor from Achi in Oji River Local Government Area of the State was reportedly killed while several others sustained varying degrees of injuries allegedly from police gun-shots.
Adamawa State House of Assembly has directed the state government to pay its N234 million debt to the West African Examination Council (WAEC) and the National Examinations Council (NECO), to secure the release of the Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) result that was conducted by both examination bodies in the state.
The Inoyo Toro Foundation may well be on its way to building a community of excellent teachers, as well as brilliant and focused students, with the introduction of two new initiatives to its annual 'Teachers' Award for Excellence in Akwa Ibom State Public Secondary Schools'.
Lagos State Internal Revenue Service (LIRS) has concluded plans to organise its second annual secondary school essay competition as part of efforts to sensitise parents on the need to pay their taxes regularly.
A Lagos based training outfit, Recore Limited, has become Nigeria's first accredited study centre for the Institute of Commercial Management (ICM), a UK based professional body for commercial and business development managers.
Despite political and social distractions the present administration in Plateau State has been facing, the government has never shifted its focus on the provision of infrastructure to the urban and rural dwellers. ROLAND OGBONNAYA writes on the effort by Jang's administration to bring to life once dead bones on the plateau
The Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) has donated 100 desktop computers, ICT facilities and broadband internet connectivity, worth N20 million to Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto. The donation was made under its Tertiary Institution Access Project (TIAP).
Ogun State Governor, Otunba Gbenga Daniel has attributed the declining quality of education in the country to population explosion in schools without a corresponding back-up in terms of resources.
Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) recently organised a first ever educational mentoring clinic for hundreds of students from Senior Secondary One (SS1) to SS3 from Edo, Delta and Bayelsa States, who are beneficiaries of its scholarship scheme, as well as teachers drawn from some target areas.
The African University of Science and Technology (AUST), Abuja is to provide indigenous manpower to meet the demand for local content in the Nigerian oil sector. President of the university, Prof Hilary Inyang, who disclosed this during a tour by the Special Adviser to the President on Political Matters, Senator Polycarp Nwite said, "with the growing concern for local content in our oil sector, ...
Chairman, Zamfara State Teachers Service Board, Alhaji Nasir Ahmad Kotorkoshi has assured all newly recruited teachers in the state that efforts were being made by the government to pay their backlog of entitlements.
OVER 60 paralegals have been trained to sensitise the communities on the rights of women and children. The councillor of Kyankwanzi, Scovia Tumusiime, urged them to also sensitise people on the dangers of domestic violence.
THE Moroto district LC5 chairman, Peter Ken Locap, yesterday sat for his final Uganda Advanced Certificate of Education (UACE) paper in Manafwa High School, Mbale district.
MAKERERE University students yesterday staged a demonstration protesting the university's refusal to finance their participation in next month's Inter-University games.
The increase of university fees and pressuring the Government to contribute more to the running of universities has been a bone of contention for many years. Until recently, attempts by public universities to raise fees have either met resistance from students or the Government has stepped in to stop the move, yet funding to public universities has been on a downward trend. For instance, the ...
A custodian with an infectious smile receives us and asks to register the details of our particulars in a book at the gate of Nabumali High School before we enter.
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has a mandate to approve Engineering programmes based on national manpower requirements but it is COREN that must approve that the programme runs based on adequacy of the necessary facilities hence it is wrong for any engineering programme to commence just on the basis of NUC's approval only.
Criticisms have trailed Monday's closure of some schools in the FCT to accommodate participants for the 2009 Abuja Carnival.Some parents and guardians who spoke on Tuesday in Abuja, described the action as unfair to their children and wards and uncalled for.
Protest by students of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, over the state government's delay in resolving the institution's internal problem, took a violent dimension yesterday, as unsuspecting motorists had their windscreen shattered.
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