Day: January 29, 2024
N27.5 million has been allocated by Kebbi Governor Nasir Idris to cover the tuition and registration fees for 38 indigenous students attending the Nigerian Law School. A statement signed by Dr. Junaidu Bello-Marshal, the Commissioner for Justice, and delivered to the media in Birnin Kebbi on
Abdul-Azeez Ibrahim, an undergraduate at the Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu Ode in Ogun State, has been placed under arrest by the state police command on charges of kidnapping, armed robbery, and cultism. Abdul-Azeez, who was taken into custody on Saturday in Ijebu Ode, is
8,285 candidates will sit for the maiden computer-based West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for private candidates in 2024, according to the West African Examination Council (WAEC) Nigeria Office in Lagos. This was revealed on Monday during a press briefing at the
Mrs. Helen Odunubi, the proprietress of Excel Group of Schools, a nursery and primary school in Ogun state, has been abducted by some suspected kidnappers. Around one o’clock on Tuesday, the event took place inside the school’s grounds in Agbado, Ogun State’s Ogunsua Crescent
A Diploma Two female student named Jemima Shetima Balami, who was doing an industrial attachment with Adamawa State Television in Yola, took her own life. Jemima, a student of Federal Polytechnic, Mubi studying mass communication, is said to have killed herself by  consuming a poisonous
For the academic year 2023–2024, Elizade University, Ilara–Mokin, located in the Ifedore Local Government Area of Ondo State, has matriculated 532 students into a variety of degree programmes. With 468 undergraduates and 64 postgraduate students, the institution’s 12th matriculation
Alhaji Faruk Umar Abubakar, the Secretary-General and Registrar of the Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria (NMCN), inducted a record 179 qualified nurses for the 2020–2021 academic year at Ambrose Alli University in Ekpoma over the weekend. Alhaji Abubakar, speaking to the inductees on
The nation’s rising rate of student kidnappings at all educational levels has been decried by the National Association of Seadogs (NAS). The organisation bemoaned the fact that rising levels of insecurity prevented students from learning in a calm and secure atmosphere. In a statement
According to the Federal Government, the Nigerian Data Protection Commission (NDPC), one of its agencies, is looking into 17 major cases of data breaches and violations. In an address to reporters yesterday at the Continental Hotels in Abuja, the commission’s National Commissioner and