Education

Nigerian lawyers and social critics, Mrs. Folake Solanke (SAN), and Femi Falana (SAN) have urged religious bodies, especially the church, to join the public conversation in addressing the crisis in the education sector and ensure justice for the masses. Solanke, ...

The Rivers State University of Science and Technology (RUST), Port Harcourt, as the unions declined to join the warning strike yesterday. NASU chairman, Bari Jonah, said the decision was predicated on the fact that the executive did not receive any ...

Bayelsa State Government has promised to invest more in technical and information and communications technology (ICT) education to train students in skills before their graduation to curb unemployment. Speaking during a youth summit themed ‘Transforming Education’, the Commissioner for Youth ...

Polytechnics are to turn out wealth creators and not job seekers. This was the submission of Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Dr. Olusegun Aluko. Addressing a news conference to herald the institution’s 40th anniversary and 19th convocation yesterday in Ogun State, ...

The Progressive Governors Forum (PGF) has ranked Edo highest in term of performance among states controlled by the All Progressives Congress (APC). Its peer review mechanism considered the reforms, initiatives and programmes of the Obaseki administration in arriving at the ...

Vice Chancellor, Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Professor Ibrahim Garba, has said that the university has migrated to a postgraduate institution for training of academic manpower for universities in the North. Highlighting the status of ABU on its admission policy, ...

Vice-Chancellor of the pioneer Technical University in Nigeria, Professor Abayomi Salami has restated the need for skills and technology-based educational systems in the country. He stated this during the 30th Anniversary Reunion Lecture of St. Charles Grammar School, Osogbo Old ...

Oondo State Governor Oluwarotimi Akeredolu has urged the Nigerian Army to prosecute the soldiers who were arrested over alleged rape of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba-Akoko (AAUA) student. In a statement issued yesterday in Akure by Commissioner for Information and Orientation, ...

Governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi, has charged Nigerian universities to expand the scope of their research, not only for breakthroughs in the medical line but for good showing on webometric ranking. Fayemi spoke at the Ekiti State University (EKSU) ...

Ekiti State Governor Kayode Fayemi has said that the state government would soon issue a blanket guideline that will curb illegal collection of fees in public schools across the state, insisting that education remains free in the state’s public schools. ...