Protesters under the aegis of Concerned Citizens were at the Igbinedion Education Centre to express their displeasure over the bullying incident that took place in the school. Viral videos from the school showed some students being beaten, flogged and kicked by supposed senior students, reports The PUNCH. The school management, in a statement,...
•The school’s premises The Edo State government has said the parents of the erring students involved in the viral assault video at Igbinedion Education Centre, a private secondary school in Benin City, would be prosecuted, as it has directed its Police Command to launch a probe into the matter. This was revealed today by the […]
•Dr. Felix Omobude Former president, Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Dr. Felix Omobude, has spoken about his early beginning and how he rose from the very scratch to stardom. He said he sold newspapers on the streets of Benin to fund his education, reports Saturday Independent. He disclosed this on the Fire Side Chat with […]
•Nigerian lawyers The Council of Legal Education has released the list of 114 universities approved to run law programmes in Nigeria. In a circular issued today, the council said only the listed universities are authorised to admit students into the Bachelor of Laws (LL.B) programme in the country. The circular, signed by the council’s Secreta...
Students of Kaduna Polytechnic have raised concerns after several female students were reportedly denied entry into the institution’s campus by security personnel over what was described as “indecent” dressing during the ongoing Ramadan fast. In a video circulating on social media, a female student alleged that security officials stationed at ...
•Tinubu The federal government has approved N2 billion each as take-off grants for the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Federal Polytechnic in Abuja and the Federal University of Science and Technology, Epe in Epe, Lagos State, as part of efforts to support their early operations. The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed this yesterday during th...
•Students in lecture hall The Nigerian Education Loan Fund has granted another extension for its Student Loan Application Portal to accommodate institutions that requested additional time for the 2025/2026 academic session. According to the statement signed by NELFUND’s Director of Strategic Communications, Oseyemi Oluwatuyi, today, the extens...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has secured the backing of the federal government to investigate vice chancellors of public universities accused of corruption and mismanagement of Tertiary Education Trust Fund allocations. ASUU raised concerns over the weak supervision of vice chancellors in implementing TETFund projects, noting that ...
The management of the School of Nursing at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital, Nnewi, Anambra State, has pledged to engage the governing board and student leaders to address concerns over the recent increase in tuition fees. The assurance followed a protest yesterday by students of the institution who decried what they described a...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives has asked the federal government to rescind its blanket invalidation of degree certificates obtained from the Republics of Benin and Togo. The green chamber made the decision following the consideration and approval of reports from its Committee on Public Petitions, which reviewed concerns...

