Day: March 7, 2024
The Federal Government has declared that payments for the Nigeria Education Loan Scheme (NELFund) will commence two years after beneficiaries have completed the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC). Dr. Akintunde Sawyer, NELFund’s Executive Secretary, revealed this information in an
On Thursday morning, armed bandits attacked a LEA Primary School in Kuriga, Chikun local government area, Kaduna State, abducting dozens of students and teachers. According to unconfirmed accounts, the school’s head teacher and some other personnel were among the victims. It was
On Thursday, at least 260,000 candidates took part in this year’s Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Mock UTME), which was held at 793 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres across the country. Professor Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB’s Registrar/Chief Executive, made the announcement
The University of Ibadan has integrated the customised International Labour Organisation (ILO) SCREAM-‘Supporting Children’s Rights through Education, the Arts, and the Media’ curriculum into the institution’s GES programme. This was announced at the start of a six-day
The University of Ilesa in Osun State commissioned the Faculty of Law building and auditorium on Wednesday, reaffirming that the university will be a model for other sister institutions to follow in the near future. Meanwhile, the institution’s Vice Chancellor, Professor Talwo Olufemi
Abdul Ghani Oyarekhua, a Nigerian scholar, has been Africa’s first professor of linguistics at the Islamic University of Madinah in Saudi Arabia. Oyarekhua’s promotion to Professor of Arabic Linguistics at the institution’s Faculty of Arabic Language and Humanities makes him
For the past eight months, Nigerian students studying on Federal Government scholarships in Russia, Morocco, Algeria, China, Hungary, and other countries have complained about their unpaid stipends. The students are enrolled in the Federal Government’s Bilateral Educational Agreement
Ada Amazu, a final-year student at the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA), reportedly attempted suicide due to an increase in school fees. The Veterinary Medicine undergraduate attempted suicide after being required to retake an academic session for failing to pay her tuition fees, which had