The death toll in a school building which collapsed in Jos, Plateau State on Friday has increased from 17 to 22. The Executive Secretary of the State Emergency Management Agency, Sunday Àbdu, had earlier confirmed 17 persons dead after a rescue operation…
By Dennis Udoma, Uyo Professor of Mathematics Education in the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, Amos Awodeyi has decried the decline in Mathematics teachers across school systems nationwide. Awodeyi said the decline in professional mathematics teachers in primary, secondary…
…Education budget allocation slashed from 15-20% to 5.98% of national budget in 2024 — Report By Sodiq Adelakun As Nigeria marks another Democracy Day today, the nation’s education system remains in a state of crisis. The incessant attacks on schools,…
By Rauf Oyewole, Bauchi School children in Bauchi State are championing the campaign against deforestation, climate change and pollution and are creating forest gardens in their various schools and communities. Celebrating this year’s World Environment Day, school administrators in Bauchi…
By Sodiq Adelakun A massive gas explosion occurred on Wednesday at the Tejuosho NTA 10 axis of Lagos State, triggering a fierce fire that destroyed over 300 wooden shanties in the area. The blaze also spread to the nearby Saint…
By Jeleel Olawale The Federal Government has commended Osun State for being the only state with an ongoing school feeding programme out of the 36 states of the Federation. The Senior Special Assistant to Mr President, Dr Yetunde Adeniji told…
Schools in Ibadan metropolis, on Monday, recorded high turnout of students, as academic activities commenced for the second term of the 2022/2023 session. Newsmen reports that students in both public and private schools were seen in their various schools as…
No fewer than 18.3 million Nigerian children are currently identified to have lacked access to the four walls of the classrooms. The figures, which came from the leadership of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Saturday via a statement…
Calculated attacks on schools recently took the scores of Nigeria’s insecurity narratives to another level of fright. Although attacks on schools could be trailed back as far as the Chibok girls kidnap of April 14, 2014 by the mischievous Boko-haram…
With resumption of schools ringing bell for a new year, following the yuletide break, one subject matter before hand is that of insecurity which recently started assuming the phase of bandits’ attacks against schools with the criminal disposition of kidnapping…
