•Blessed and Gabriella Two Nigerian girls have placed the nation on the global technology map after emerging winners of the 2025 Technovation Global Summit (Beginner Division) with an artificial intelligence (AI) app designed to tackle drowsy and distracted driving. The prodigies, 10-year-old Akachukwu Blessed Nwachukwu and Ifunanya Gabriella ...
•Governor Bassey Otu of Cross River State Cross River State government has abolished the use of textbooks embedding workbooks in all government and private schools across the state. The ban is part of a comprehensive package of education policy reforms designed to standardize practices in public and private schools, safeguard pupils’ welfare, ...
•Some Nigerian professors Some professors in the country have recounted their struggles with poor remuneration, revealing how meagre salaries have forced them into multiple loans and an unending cycle of debt. In separate interviews with our correspondent, the lecturers described how the government’s weak commitment to education has made life ...
•Governor Ahmad Aliyu of Sokoto State The Sokoto State government has suspended six school principals over allegations of insubordination and unauthorised collection of fees relating to the Junior Secondary School (JSS) examination results. The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Ahmad Ala, announced this in a statement issued by t...
The Lagos Police Command has launched investigation into a viral video allegedly showing students of Excel College, Ejigbo, engaging in smoking, drinking, and dancing at the school’s boys hostel. The incident, which reportedly occurred in April 2025 but only surfaced online recently, has sparked public outrage and condemnation, reports The Nat...
•Education minister, Tunji Alausa The federal government has reintroduced Nigerian History as a compulsory subject in the basic education curriculum to strengthen national identity, unity, patriotism, and responsible citizenship. The Federal Ministry of Education announced the introduction in a statement on its official X account yesterday. “F...
•Charterhouse Lagos Charterhouse Lagos celebrates a major milestone as it opens its new boarding house and welcomes the first cohort of secondary pupils. It is a new chapter for the first British independent school in Lagos. Pupils, parents, and staff were present ahead of the 2025/26 academic year. There was traditional music and dance, creat...
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) results, with 60.26 percent of candidates obtaining at least five credits, including Mathematics and English. Announcing the results in Minna, Niger State, today, NECO Registrar, Professor Ibrahim Wushishi, said 818,492 of the 1,358,339 ...
The National Examinations Council (NECO) is set to release the results of the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) Internal today, Wednesday, September 17, 2025, by 12 noon at the Council’s Headquarters in Minna, the Niger State capital. The Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Professor Ibrahim Dantani Wushishi, is expected to...
•Teacher and students The Chinese language, Mandarin, has become one of the foreign languages to be offered in Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) in Nigeria in the newly reviewed secondary school curriculum. The Education Secretary of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, Dr. Danlami Hayyo, announced the development at the inauguration of ...

