President Goodluck Jonathan has said that his administration would no longer tolerate inefficiency in the management of the educational system while saying that educational institutions should at least solve the problems of their immediate hosts. The p...
The controversy that trailed the suspension of four courses in the University of Abuja has taken a worrisome dimension, as members of the institution’s Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU have slammed a vote of no confidence on the vice ch...
The recently introduced conditional cash transfer programme of the Katsina State government, which sought to provide financial support to female children, has led to an increase in the enrolment of girls in schools across the state, the special adviser...
Mr Aloysius Okolie, the ASUU Chairman, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) chapter, has expressed concern over irregular payment of salaries to the university's staff. Okolie told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Nsukka on Friday that the staff ...
President Goodluck Jonathan said on Tuesday in Sokoto that his administration was committed to providing quality education for the 9.5 million Almajirai children. Jonathan stated this at the inauguration of the first Federal Government-owned Almajiri M...
Five secondary school students from Rivers and Akwa Ibom States represented Nigeria at the United Nations (UN) Headquarters in New York, United States of America, USA where they joined 3,000 other students from 23 countries for a weeklong conference.&n...
The Faculty of Law of the University of Nigeria has produced over 7000 graduates in 50 years of its existence as the pioneer Law faculty in Nigeria just as it had commenced plans to celebrate its Golden Jubilee. Chairman of University of Nigeria, Enugu...
Vice president Namadi Sambo has reaffirmed the federal government’s commitment to integrating western and Arabic education insisting that the task of ensuring decent education for almajirai cannot be abdicated. Speaking in Katsina yesterday, duri...
The Senate Leader, Sen. Victor Ndoma-Egba, says education is the only solution to the persistent security challenges facing the country. Ndoma-Egba, who said this in Calabar on Friday during his Scholarship Awards’ ceremony, said that with good e...
There was pandemonium at the premises of Lagos State University Teaching Hospital on Friday as fire engulfed nurses' room on the second floor of the BT Paediatrics Complex. The fire, which lasted only few minutes, recorded no casualties, but patien...
The vice chancellor of the University of Abuja, Prof Joseph Adelabu has been given six months ultimatum to restructure the departments of Medicine, Veterinary Medicine, and Engineering due to their lack of accreditation by the National Universities Com...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), says the suspension of some programmes at University of Abuja is taken to sanitise the sector. Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, the National President of ASUU told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Thu...
Authorities of the University of Abuja which had been in the storm over some unaccredited courses have shut down the institution indefinitely. Students of the university had yesterday in a rally, barricaded the Giri-Airport road while protesting Federa...
Some stakeholders in the education sector on Wednesday expressed worry over increased cases of examination malpractice and continued mass failure. In interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, the stakeholders said that the challe...
Irked by the report of the federal government’s visitation panel to the University of Abuja as well as the bitter complaints of parents and students of the institution, the minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai, has announced the ind...