•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 […]
•The school signpost and Amnesty International’s Country Director, Isa Sanusi  Amnesty International Nigeria has raised the alarm that the recent mass abductions of pupils and students from schools will cause a serious setback to education in Northern Nigeria. The Country Director, Isa Sanusi, explained that the trauma associated with abductio...
The Senior Staff Union in Colleges of Education, Nigeria (SSUCOEN) has decried how government pays less attention to teacher education, which, according to it, is the bedrock of every country’s development. The union said no nation could progress without education, lamenting that less attention was being paid to teacher education across the co...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved the take-off of the new Cross River State University of Education and Entrepreneurship as the 67th state university in Nigeria. The Executive Secretary of the Commission, Prof. Abdullahi Yusufu Ribadu, presented a letter of recognition for the university to the State Governor, Prince Bass...
•Tinubu The Benin Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has kicked against the proposed Nigeria Tax Reform Bill by the federal government, saying it will destroy public institutions in the country. Addressing journalists at the weekend, the Zonal Coordinator, ASUU Benin Zone, comprising nine universities, Prof. Monday Lewis Igbafen,...
•Tinubu at National Assembly today Security and defence, infrastructure, health and education were some of the sectors with high allocations in the N47.9 trillion budget proposal presented by President Bola Tinubu before a joint session of the National Assembly this afternoon. “It is with great pleasure that I lay before this distinguished joi...
•Dr Osoba Kehinde Eritosin JP The newly Inaugurated Honourary Chancellor of College of Chaplaincy & Social Sciences, Nigeria, Reverend Mother (Dr) Osoba Kehinde Eritosin, JP has called on the federal government to empower online education and grant license to more online educational institutions in bringing education to the door step of ev...
•Tinubu The immediate past national president of the Fatima College Ikire Old Boys Association (FACOBA), Pastor Henry Otoibhi has appealed to President Bola Tinubu to consider the return of schools back to the missionaries, its rightful owners just like he did during his tenure as the governor of Lagos State. He said: “It is possible, [&hellip...
The World Bank has said that the consequences of absenteeism on public expenditure in health and education sectors combined can be as high as 34 per cent. This was revealed in the latest World Bank’s Human Capital Public Expenditure and Institutional Review on Nigeria. The report indicated that the country’s public expenditure on health and [&...
•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...

