Dr. Wale Babalakin (SAN) has resigned as Pro-Chancellor of the University of Lagos. His resignation a result of his anger with with the Federal Government’s Visitation Panel set up to look into the leadership conflicts in the university. He submitted his letter, dated 15 September to the Education Minister, Adamu Adamu. In his view, the […]
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Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has fixed September 21 as the the tentative date for the reopening of primary and secondary schools. He also directed all tertiary institutions under the state government to reopen on September 14. The institutions were shut indefinitely in March to check the spread of COVID-19. But at a briefing on […]
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The federal government of Nigeria has warned parents against sending their children to universities in Northern Cyprus owing to “incessant and mysterious killings of Nigerian students”. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, chairman of Nigerians in Diaspora Commission NIDCOM, gave the warning when she received a delegation led by Amina Bello, a judge and mother of Ibrahim Khaleel, a […]
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The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) said they would proceed on strike over unresolved issues with the Federal Government immediately the universities reopen. Mr Samson Ugwoke, the Chairman, Joint Action Committee (JAC) of both unions said this while addressing newsmen on the resolutions […]
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Barely two weeks to the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, the West African Examinations Council has released the timetable for the examination. In a statement issued on Tuesday by its Head of Public Affairs, Demianus Ojijeogu, the examination body asked candidates to disregard other versions of the examination timetable in circulation. “The West […]
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Nigeria’s Federal Government, has announced that the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) will take place between August 4 and September 5, 2020. Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajuiba made this announcement during COVID-19 Presidential Task Force (PTF) daily briefing in Abuja. According to Nwajuiba, dates for NABTEB and NECO exams will be […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, had on Tuesday, announced the admission cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. Kokomansion understands that the JAMB registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, at the 20th Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria which held in Abuja disclosed that cut off mark for universities was […]
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Ahead of the reopening of universities and others, Nigeria’s Federal Government has given six conditions that each school should meet. It noted that the six conditions are to protect pupils and students against the Coronavirus disease. The Federal Government also asked all heads of schools to start putting measures in place to meet the terms. […]
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Oyo State COVID-19 Task Force has according to reports, relaxed the Coronavirus curfew which was imposed on the state and also asked final year students in schools to resume on 29th June. All civil servants in the state were also directed to resume duties. Taiwo Adisa, Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, made this disclosure […]
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The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project , (SERAP,) has written a petition to the United Nations, UN, over*.m plans by the Federal Government to cut the budgetary allocation of education and health care sectors. SERAP in its petition also called on the UN to prevail upon the Federal Government to drop the plan to spend […]
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