•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has approved an extensive census of schools in Nigeria from primary to tertiary level, their conditions and live-in facilities, proximity to one another, and educational infrastructure among other data points. The stocktake would also include ascertaining the number of all teachers in Nigeria, their qualifications...
•Tinubu The federal government has postponed the launch of the Nigerian Students Loan Scheme indefinitely. Akintunde Sawyer, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), stated this in an interview with ARISE TV. The loan which was formally slated to take off tomorrow, has been postponed again, as there are some corre...
•Prof Ango Abdullahi The Prof. Ango Abdullahi-led Northern Elders Forum, today, expressed concern over the abduction of no fewer than 287 pupils and teachers of the Government Secondary School and LEA Primary School, Kuriga 1, in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State by bandits. Bandits stormed the LEA Primary Kuriga around 8:30 am on [...
•Gas flaring A school was forced to go on recess while the environment has been adversely affected by a gas flaring operation conducted by Shell, an international oil company, in the heart of a community in Bayelsa State. Residents of Gbarantoru Community, in Ekpetiama Kingdom of Yenagoa LGA, Bayelsa State, have expressed shock over the [&hell...
•Falana Activist-lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has asked the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to compel the federal government, the 36 states of the federation and Abuja to provide free and compulsory education up to junior secondary school level. Falana and his co-plaintiff/applicant, Hauwa Mustapha, filed the suit marked FHC/L/CS/142/2024...
•UBEC boss, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has said Nigeria is experiencing a severe learning crisis that requires immediate action to address. Speaking at a two-day stakeholders ‘Dialogue on Reading Initiative in the UBE Programme and the Use of Mother Tongue/...
•Tofunmi Ogunseye A six-year-old gospel singer, Tofunmi Ogunseye, has said that her love for music was influenced by her family and Christian background. “My Christian background inspired me to express the supremacy of God to deliver us from all our troubles. My message to all listeners is that they should believe in God and trust […]...
The chairman of JIgawa State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) Professor Haruna Musa today escaped being lynched by aggrieved teachers popularly know as J-Teach at the Federal University Dutse (FUD), the venue of the proposed aptitude test for recruitment of 3,000 teachers. The prospective teachers, mostly youths, also blocked the entran...
•NUC Executive Secretary, Prof Abubakar Rasheed No fewer than 24 polytechnics and colleges of education have been converted to universities by the federal and state governments. However, the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics and education reform activists tagged the move as a plan to “bury” the essence of technical education in the country,...