January 2024 - Page 2 of 10 - Sundiata Scholar

Home 2024 January (Page 2)

Edu News

179 Newly Qualified Nurses of Ambrose Alli University are Inducted by NMCN

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 29, 2024

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

Edu News

Group voices concern over increase in the rate of students’ kidnapping

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 29, 2024

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

Edu News INFO HUB

Fed Govt investigates 17 cases of data violations against banks, hospitals, schools, others

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 29, 2024

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

Edu News INFO HUB

Fire destroys two schools in Anambra

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 28, 2024

Over the weekend, a fire ravaged two secondary schools in Nawfia, which is in the Njikoka local government area of Anambra State. The affected institutions were Community Secondary School and Comprehensive Secondary School, both situated in Nawfia. The fires broke out in the evening and spread

Edu News

APC leader purchases WAEC, UTME forms for 600 students in Osun

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 28, 2024

The free registration forms for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WAEC) have benefited no fewer than 600 students in the Ejigbo local government area of Osun State. One of the All Progressives Congress’s (APC)

Edu News

Poly alumni lament the hostel crisis in public institutions

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 28, 2024

The Federal Polytechnic Ado Ekiti Alumni Association has lamented the housing crisis in public tertiary schools, claiming that it is negatively affecting students’ life in a number of ways. In his plea for government intervention, the association’s national president, Dr. Oyedokun

Edu News INFO HUB

IED explosion kills 6 students in Borno

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 28, 2024

No fewer than six children died in a horrific incident that occurred on Saturday in Gubio Local Government Area, Borno State, as a result of an improvised explosive device (IED) going off close to a Qur’anic school. According to Zagazola Makama, a counter-insurgency journal that focuses

Edu News

Caleb University set to celebrate its 13th convocation

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 27, 2024

On Saturday, February 3, 2024, Caleb University Imota, Lagos will celebrate its 13th convocation, at which worthy graduates will receive undergraduate and graduate degrees. AIn addition, at the Imota main campus convocation arena, the institution will bestow honorary degrees on two notable

Edu News

Gunmen Kidnap Deputy Vice-Chancellor of Abia State Varsity

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 27, 2024

Prof. Godwin Emezue, the Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academics) of Abia State University (ABSU), has been kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers. According to a statement released on Saturday by ASP Maureen Chinaka, the State Police Command spokeswoman, Prof Emezue was abducted on Friday

Edu News

Lagos student dies following alleged flogging by a teacher

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 27, 2024

At Araromi Ilogbo Secondary School in Oko Afo, Lagos, tension is rising following the death of a student, David Babadipo, who was allegedly flogged by a teacher. Online videos supposed to be of 16-year-old David being flogged to death on Thursday by teacher Oluwale, depict classmates in

Edu News

Hensard University Announces Policy on Installmental Payment of Tuition

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 27, 2024

Hensard University is pleased to announce that students can pay their school fees in two installments, providing greater flexibility and convenience. To secure admission into the University, the first payment should not be less than 50 percent of the tuition. The remainder will be paid in one

Edu News

Don’t let teachers oversee your children’s moral training, says Proprietor

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 27, 2024

Tade Olayinka, the proprietor of a private school in Ilorin, Kwara State, has counselled parents against entrusting teachers with their children’s moral education. In an interview on Friday, Mr. Olayinka, who provided the advice in Ilorin, stated that in order for teachers to properly

Edu News

Lagos gives letters of approval to 199 new private schools

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 27, 2024

To 199 new private school owners, the Lagos State Office of Education Quality Assurance, or OEQA, has delivered letters of provisional approval. With the approval, there are now 5,622 registered private primary and secondary schools in the State, up from 5,423 at the beginning. At the Education

Edu News

8 Undergraduates Begin a 12-Week Mentoring Programme with VOA Charity

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 27, 2024

Values Of Affordable Education, a non-governmental organisation with a focus on STEM, has started a 12-week mentoring scheme with eight Nigerian academics and undergraduates, ranging from 100 to 400 from different Nigerian universities. The Founder, Dr. Olabisi Adekoya, stated in a statement

Edu News

Gov Adeleke appoints acting provost for Osun State College of Education

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 26, 2024

OSOGBO (Sundiata Scholar) – Governor Ademola Adeleke has approved the appointment of Dr Jimoh Lasisi Ayanda as the acting Provost of the Osun State College of Education, Ila Orangun. The appointment was sequel to the suspension of Prof Jimoh Atanda Afolabi as Provost on grounds of

Edu News

NDDC’s uncompleted projects in tertiary institutions posing security threat, says NANS

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 26, 2024

IBADAN (Sundiata Scholar) – According to the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), unfinished Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) projects in a few tertiary institutions around the nation pose a security risk. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in

Edu News

Don’t allow social norms distract you on education – Ebonyi governor’s wife tells women

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 26, 2024

ABAKALIKI (Sundiata Scholar) – Women have been urged by Mrs. Mary-Maudline Nwifuru, the wife of the governor of Ebonyi, to avoid letting early marriage and social norms interfere with their education. When Nwifuru’s 2012 Course Mates in Mass Communication from Ebonyi State

Edu News

Delta to begin payment of bursary in February

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 26, 2024

ASABA (Sundiata Scholar) – The Delta State Bursary and Scholarship Board has announced that it would start awarding the 2023 bursary to eligible students in February. This was revealed by the board’s executive secretary, Dr. Godfrey Enita, in a statement released in Asaba and

Edu News

Stakeholders decry teachers’ shortage in Ebonyi

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 26, 2024

ABAKALIKI (Sundiata Scholar) – Regarding the state’s public primary schools, the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and other education stakeholders in Ebonyi have voiced concerns about what they see as a decline in quality. In order to attain quality education, they urged the State

Edu News

Plateau University matriculates 4,000 students

Fadiran Ifeloluwa January 26, 2024

JOS (Sundiata Scholar) – On Wednesday, 4,000 new students were admitted to the faculties and departments of Plateau University, Bokkos, for the 2022–2023 and 2023–2024 academic years. Prof. Bernard Matur, the university’s vice-chancellor, commended the students on being the