By Omotayo Ishola & Hannah Ologunde A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mallam Lateef Fagbemi (SAN) has called for a general restructuring of the country’s education system. Part of the reforms he suggested was that seasoned educators would be brought to…
The Federal Polytechnic Nasarawa in Nasarawa State has expelled 51 students for examination malpractice during the 2019/2020 academic session. This is contained in a statement issued on Wednesday by Malam Uba Mana, the polytechnic’s Director of Information, Publicity and Protocol.…
Mr Lateef Fagbemi, Chairman, Governing Council of the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), has expressed the body’s determination to bring more growth and development to the institution. Fagbemi made the remarks while addressing members of staff of the college at…
The Kogi State Government has pledged to support a student, Mr Adebayo Sunday, a graduate of Kogi State College of Education (Technical), Kabba, who invented drones. The State’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Wemi Jones, gave the assurance…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed August 31 to determine the minimum cut-off mark for admission into tertiary institutions for the 2021/2022 academic session. The meeting would involve JAMB officials, heads of tertiary institutions, the ministry of…
Gov. Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State said that he would be leaving the education sector of the state in 2023 better than he met it as governor in 2015. The governor said this when he featured on the News…
By Faizat Adeboye The Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos; Professor Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, FAS has called for a decentralization of the activities of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) through the establishment of zonal and state offices. The Vice-Chancellor who was the…
By Mike Adebayo, Ado-Ekiti The Federal Polytechnic, Ado-Ekiti has reaffirmed its zero tolerance for all form of anti-social behaviours, such as; examination misconduct, cultism, sexual harassment, hooliganism, corruption, prostitution, gang sterism inappropriate dressing among others. Rector of the Institution, Dr.…
By Mike Adebayo, Ado-Ekiti After being suspended from school for alleged indiscipline and assault on teachers by her parents, a JSS1 female student of Mary Immaculate Secondary School, Ado-Ekiti, Gift Agenoisa, has sued the Ekiti State government, seeking N15 million…
The Vice Chancellor of the University of Benin, Lilian Salami, has been elected Vice President of the Association of African Universities, AAU. This comes five months after UNIBEN’s second female Vice Chancellor was named Alternate Chairperson of the CVCN’s Committee…
