The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has appointed Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, a professor of Botany, as its new vice-chancellor (VC). He becomes the 12th vice-chancellor of the university and will succeed Professor Rahamon Bello. Until his appointment, he was the Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academics and Research, UNILAG. The Public Relations Officer of the school, Toyin Adebule, confirmed Ogundipe’s appointment. […]
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Skye Business School has been awarded full accreditation status as a full-fledged banking/finance, business and continuous human capital training academy by the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN). The accreditation which is in collaboration with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is sequel to the conclusion of a rigorous vetting and accreditation process. CIBN […]
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President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Minister of Education to convene a ministerial summit on education within the next few weeks. The president gave the directive on Saturday in Ilorin, in his address at the 33rd Convocation of the University of Ilorin. The president was represented by Prof. Abubakar Abdulrasheed, the Executive Secretary of the […]
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The Federal Government has started the implementation of mid-day group hand washing before meals in schools across the country to inculcate the culture of hand washing in children. The Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, made this known in Abuja on Monday at an event to commemorate the 2017 Global Hand Washing Day, according […]
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About 21,780 out of 33,000 teachers failed the primary four test administered to test their competence by the Kaduna State government. The state is therefore shopping for 25,000 new teachers as one of the plans to restore dignity and quality to education. Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State unveiled the planned recruitment when he received […]
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The Governor of Edo State, Mr Godwin Obaseki, has congratulated teachers on World Teachers Day, celebrated on October 5, each year. Obaseki assured that more capacity enhancement programmes were underway in view of the importance his administration attaches to teachers and the teaching profession. “We felicitate with Edo State teachers and their counterparts elsewhere in […]
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…rewards rainbow essay competition winners Skye Bank Plc., has charged the Nigerian child to imbibe the savings culture early in life of to secure their future, even as it demonstrated its commitment to the development of the education recognised winners of its Skye Rainbow Essay Competition across the country and presented them with state-of-the-art educational tablets. […]
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The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, said on Wednesday that only 50 per cent of private schools in the country have complied with its directive to deploy only professional teacher(s) to classrooms. Adamu Bello, the Deputy Director, Professional Operation of the council made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria […]
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UBA Foundation, the corporate social responsibility arm of the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc, has announced the call for entries for the 2017 edition of its annual UBA Foundation National Essay Competition in Nigeria. The essay competition which is put together for senior secondary school students is organized as part of UBA Foundation’s Education […]
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A total of 2,918,842 schoolchildren from 19,881 schools in the 14 pilot states of the federation have so far benefitted from the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme, which is part of President Muhammadu Buhari administration’s N500 billion Social Investment Programmes, SIPs. A total of N6,643,432,789 billion have been disbursed by the Federal Government since […]
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