President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the payment of N164.7 million as school fees of the freed 106 Chibok girls. Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman, who announced this in a statement on Sunday, said the money is for the second-semester fees of the girls studying at the American University of Nigeria (AUN), Yola, Adamawa state. Former Vice-President […]
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The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has released the results of the Nov/Dec 2017 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, taken by 131,485 candidates. Candidates are advised to check the details of their performance on the council’s website: www.waecdirect.org. The results were released in Katsina State during the 55th Annual Meeting of the Nigeria […]
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It was an all-female affair as fifteen year old Samuella Sam-Orlu of British Nigerian Academy Abuja, emerged the overall winner of the 2017 edition of the UBA Foundation National Essay Competition, winning an educational grant of N1,000,000.00 to study in any African university of her choice, as well as a laptop. Samuella clinched the first […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has proposed March 9 to 17 as dates for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar revealed the proposed dates on Wednesday during a meeting in Abuja with critical stakeholders on the plans and programmes for the 2018 UTME and Direct Entry (DE). He […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has openly supported the move of Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, to sack 21,780 teachers, who failed the competency test conducted by the state government. Speaking at a special retreat of the federal executive council (FEC) on the challenges facing the education sector, Buhari said it was no longer a secret […]
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Following its National Executive Council meeting held on Saturday at the Kaduna Polytechnic, Kaduna State, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has vowed to embark on an indefinite strike with effect from Monday. The industrial action follows the failure of the Federal Government to implement all the agreements it entered with the union since […]
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The Kaduna State government has released the answer scripts of some teachers who participated in the competency test set by the government. Basic questions like the full name of the governor, the name of the minister of Education, the three state of matter and so on were found difficult to answer by some of the […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, organisers of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, has banned the use of wrist watches and pens during the conduct of its 2018 test. The board’s Registrar, Is’haq Oloyede disclosed this to journalists on the sideline of a one-day sensitisation workshop for Computer Based Test, CBT, centre owners […]
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The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, said on Thursday that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration was putting in place deliberate policies and measures to reform all facets of the education sector. Adamu, represented by Mr Ezekiel Asubiojo, Director , Ministry of Education said this at the 37th Convocation and 50th Anniversary of Federal College […]
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…as part of activities to mark 2017 World Savings Day Skye Bank CEO, Tokunbo Abiru, has unveiled the Bank’s plans to take financial literacy campaign to 30 schools in the country to mark this year’s World Savings Day. Abiru made this known while addressing pupils of Seed of Life Schools, Lebanon Ibadan, adopted by Skye […]
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