The Immediate Past Deputy Vice Chancellor (Academic), University of Ibadan, Professor Adeyinka Aderinto on Tuesday formally joined the race to become the 13th Vice Chancellor of the Premier University. Aderinto, currently Head, Department of Sociology is believed to be one of the strong candidates that is likely to succeed incumbent […]
Education
United States President, Trump, Paid Someone To Take SAT For Him, Niece Writes In Book
President Donald Trump of the United States had someone else take the SAT for him when he was in high school, his niece, Mary Trump, wrote in her forthcoming book, according to Washington Examiner. As the book would tell it, Trump, who grew up in New York City, paid someone to […]
FG Accused Of Abandoning Chibok Girls On Scholarship At American University Yola
The Kibaku (Chibok) Area Development Association (KADA) has accused Nigerian Government of abandoning and neglecting the Chibok Girls who enrolled for scholarship programme at American University of Nigeria, Yola, Adamawa State. The group said 10 out of them had pulled out of the programme out of frustration. In a statement […]
COVID-19: Schools In Kenya To Remain Shut Until January 2021
The Government of Kenya has said all schools will remain closed until January 2021 due to rising cases of COVID-19 in the country. Final year exams, usually written in October and November, have also been cancelled. George Magoha, Kenya’s Education Minister, said students would repeat a year as schools had […]
COVID-19: Ogun teachers outline conditions for school reopening
Public school teachers in Ogun state on Tuesday demanded provision of Personal Protective Equipment (PPEs), infrared thermometers, hand sanitizers, among other conditions for reopening of schools in the state. The State Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Titilope Adebanjo who gave the conditions while speaking with journalists […]
COVID-19: WAEC to release fresh 2020 WASSCE timetable
The West African Examination Council is set to release a fresh timetable for the 2020 West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination.This followed an announcement by the Federal Government that the examination would commence from August 4 through September 5. Speaking at a Presidential Task Force Briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja […]
Fed Govt asks states to open schools as WASSCE begins August 4
The Federal Government on Monday advised state governments to reopen their schools to enable primary 6, Junior Secondary School 3 and Senior Secondary School 3 pupils prepare for their exit examinations. Although the government did not say when Primary 6 and JSS 3 would commence the National Common Entrance Examination […]
Delta schools ‘ll reopen soon, Commissioner tells parents, guardians
The Delta Government on Monday assured parents and guardians that primary and secondary schools closed in the wake of Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic would be reopened soon. Mr Patrick Ukah, the state Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, made this known in a statement in Asaba. Ukah said reopening of schools […]
Schools disinfection commence July 7 – FG
The disinfection of schools against the spread of COVID-19 in preparation for the resumption of class activities will begin on Tuesday, the Federal Government announced on Monday. It also explained why it delayed the decontamination process, adding that it had enough teams on ground to carry out the disinfection exercise. […]
COVID-19: Afe Babalola accuses ASUU of blocking varsities reopening
Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) has accused that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been actively obstructive to the re-opening of universities in the country. Babalola expressed displeasure over the Federal Government’s decision on non-resumption of final year students of tertiary institutions like those in Primary […]