The leadership of the National Youth Service Corps has given guideline on the passing-out for the 2019 Batch “B” Stream 1 Corps Members slated for May 28. Read the statement below: The passing-out for the 2019 Batch “B” Stream 1 Corps Members has been slated nationwide for Thursday, 28th May, 2020. The event shall be […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Prof. Godswill Obioma as the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the National Examination Council, NECO. Kokomansion understands that Obioma’s appointment followed the sack of Charles Uwakwe for various offences bordering on financial impropriety. Head, Information and Public Relations Division of NECO, Mr Azeez Sani, on Friday in […]
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Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, Minister of State for Education, has disclosed that the Federal Government of Nigeria is already making plans to reopen schools nationwide but it won’t happen in two weeks as being speculated in some quarters. The Minister while speaking during Thursday’s briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19, said there was no […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved that Prof Charles Uwakwe be removed as the Registrar and Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council (NECO). The President also sacked four other members of the management for various offences which bordered on financial impropriety. Kokomansion recalls that Uwakwe had since May 2018 been suspended by the Federal Government […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of six new federal colleges of education in each of the six geo-political zones of Nigeria. Personal Assistant to the President on New Media, Mr Bashir Ahmad, disclosed this via his Twitter handle on Thursday. According to him, the institutes will be located in Bauchi, Benue, Ebonyi, Osun, […]
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Legal giant and founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Afe Babalola, has said shutting down schools indefinitely over the COVID-19 pandemic is not advisable. In a statement on Monday, he suggested ways schools and universities can be reopened in four weeks and still guarantee its students of safety. Babalola listed the conditions under which […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has approved immediate payments of salaries owed some lecturers who are not enrolled in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Following the refusal to enrol in the IPPIS, some lecturers’ salaries were withheld, however, President Buhari in Abuja on Tuesday, asked that the arrears owed these lecturers be paid. President […]
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A former Professor of Management Accounting at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Richard Akindele, has been released from prison after serving a two-year jail term. Akindele was jailed in 2018 after he pleaded guilty to a four-count charge filed against him at the Federal High Court, Osogbo, the Osun State capital, by the Independent […]
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The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Is-haq Oloyede, has said the board has now set-up monitors at the different Computer-based Test (CBT) centres to detect candidates who indulge in examination malpractices during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Speaking in an interview, Oloyede said the results of the 2020 UTME […]
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Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu of Ondo state has ordered the closure of all primary, secondary schools and tertiary institutions in the state from Friday, March 20. Akeredolu gave the directive in a broadcast on Coronavirus pandemic on Thursday in Akure. The governor explained that the measure was to “harvest children into the safety net” for proper […]
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