Ganiyu Nasirudeen …As House Makes Its Position Public Soon The Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) has changed its earlier stance of warning against the resumption of the country’s public and private schools on Monday September 22, 2014 as it has called on the school owners to make available all necessary measures to prevent […]
Ayo Balogun The crisis facing the Lagos State University (LASU) is far from being over as hundreds of part-time students of the school stormed the office of Governor Babatunde Fashola protesting the shoddy manner the external campus system of the school is being run. The students stormed the governor’s office around 12.00pm on Monday […]
Ayo Balogun As debate trails the resumption date of schools announced by the Federal Government last Friday, the Lagos State Government appears ready for new academic session as it has directed all schools in the state to resume on Monday, September 22, 2014. The directive was in a press statement issued Friday in Ikeja by […]
From Ganiyu Nasirudeen The new resumption date as announced last week by the Federal Government for the nation’s public and private schools has continued to generate controversy and protest, latest which is the strike threat by the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), should September 22, remains. NUT demand aligns with the Nigeria Medical Association (NMA) […]
Niyi Adeyi A suspected case of deadly Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) has been reported in the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU) Ile-Ife, Osun State, South Western Nigeria. The case, an undergraduate of the institution, was said to be a secondary contact of one the infected victims. In a press statement issued late yesterday by the […]
The Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi administration in Rivers State has taken yet another giant step in educational development by constructing a new 20-classroom Blocks Model Primary School to commemorate the status of the State Capital as the current World Book Capital City. Known as World Capital City Model Primary School, the edifice is located in Port […]
By Tajudeen Balogun The Federal Government has announced Monday September 22, 2014 as the new resumption date for the country’s Primary/Nursery and secondary schools. The Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau made the announcement Friday after the general meeting with the states’ Commissioners For Education in Abuja. Shekarau said the decision was reached as the […]
Ignatius Okpara, Enugu Over 200 indigent students have benefited from scholarships by the Enugu State Scholarship and Education Loan Board. Disclosing this while addressing the beneficiaries Wednesday, the Executive Secretary of the Board, Mrs Loy Nnacheta, which was established by the present administration in the state, disclosed the recipients included seven medical doctors currently doing […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos The Vice Chancellor of University of Jos (UNIJOS), Professor Hayward Mafuyai has warned the students against examination malpractice and campus cultism. The VC who threatened expulsion as punishment for any of the act urged the undergraduates to be security conscious in view of the prevailing security challenges in the country as well […]
The October 13, 2014 extended resumption date sequel to outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in the country is most likely to be reviewed. NAN reported Wednesday that the National Council of Education was likely to have an audience with the Health Minister, Professor Onyebuchi Chukwu to review school resumption date, following the latter’s […]
No fewer than 322 Nigerian students under the Federal Government scholarship are currently begging for food and means of survival in Russia. House of Representatives Committee Chairman on Diaspora Affairs, Abike Dabiri-Erewa disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. According to her, the House Committee on Diaspora Affairs has recently received with a deep sense […]
The protest embarked upon by the students of Ogun State University (OOU), Ago Iwoye, against hike in their school fees continued early today as some of them besieged the Oke Mosan, Abeokuta suburb Governor’s office, demanding slash in the school’s tuition. The students under the leadership of the institution Students’ Union Government, Olusegun Ifede, started […]
The results of May/June 2014 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) conducted by the West Africa Examination Council, (WAEC) have been released with mass failure in two compulsory subjects – English Language and Mathematics. The Head, WAEC National Office, Yaba Lagos, Mr. Charles Eguridu while annoucing on Monday the latest result revealed that a […]
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau to urgently probe alleged stealing of teachers’ salaries and benefits in several Federal Government Colleges across the country, and punish suspected perpetrators. In the petition dated 4 August, 2014 and signed by SERAP’s Executive Director, Adetokunbo Mumuni, the organization […]
Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola has reverted the school fees being paid by students of the Lagos State University, LASU, back to the old rate of N25, 000. This is coming as the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria University (SSANU), LASU chapter protested vehemently on Thursday over the non-payment of their two months salaries by […]
After months of brushes between the Lagos state government and Students Union Government of the state’s University (LASU), Governor Babatunde Fashola has just promised the hike tuition fees will soon be reversed. Fashola who through a special committee on the new fees recently announced yet another controversial tuition made the pledged in his address at […]
A brand Ambassador of a new generation Bank, Zuriel Oduwole, has concluded her latest six – nation tour #followTheBallForEducation used to drum up support for the Girl-Child education. The campaign which ended last Thursday, in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital, lasted six weeks, involved visit to countries such as United States of America (USA), […]
Agabus Pwanagba, Jos Following the potato blight disease which has destroyed over 1000 hectares of Irish potato farms in Plateau State, the University of Jos (UNIJOS) is partnering the State Government on investment to stamp out the disease. UNIJOS Vice Chancellor (VC), Professor Hayward Mafuyai, said the collaboration became necessary in order to fight the […]
Ignatius Okpara, Awka As part of measures to check examination malpractices, in its school system, the Anambra state government says it has concluded plans to close down a total of 486 special centres, popularly referred to as “miracle centres” in the State. The state Commissioner for Education, Professor Kate Omenugha, disclosed this Monday in Awka […]
Oyewale Oyelola The Council of Academic Staff Union of Osun Stated Owned Tertiary Institutions (CASUOSTI) has suspended 5-month strike on Friday. The Chairman of CASUOSTI, Comrade Jimoh Lasisi disclosed this in a statement made available to African examiner on Saturday. Comrade Lasisi said the striking lecturers suspended the strike action after members voted to end […]
