•Students driven away from class for owing school fees A few years back, parents enrolled their children of one to three years of age in ‘Jeleosimi’ day care centres, since they sleep throughout the day learning little or nothing. Jeleosimi is a Yoruba term meaning, ‘let the household have peace’. It describes a school meant […]...
•Students in a classroom Primary and secondary schools in Lagos State resumed today for the first term of the 2025/2026 academic session, recording a moderate turnout of pupils after the long holiday. While many schools kicked off with lessons, resumption tests, and revisions, some parents expressed frustration over fresh financial burdens, in...
•Some of the parents (L) and the pastor (R) An official of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) in Rivers State, Nwamaka Ikediashi, has said that parents of some minors who were brutally flogged by a pastor during a “spiritual cleansing” exercise need counselling. Ikediashi stated this on Channels Televisi...
•JAMB Registrar Prof. Ishaq Oloyede Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has hinted of plans to begin prosecution of parents who aid their ward or children in examination malpractices. Oloyede gave the hints while monitoring the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam...
•Stanley Nwabali The family of Super Eagles goalkeeper, Stanley Nwabali, has announced the burial arrangements for his late parents, Chief Nwabali Godspower Onyekamu and Mrs. Grace Nwabali (née Mmai), describing the moment as one of unimaginable grief. In a message shared alongside the burial poster on his Instagram today, Nwabali expressed th...
Parents of candidates writing the ongoing Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations, SSCE, being conducted by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, have slammed the Council for subjecting the candidates to untold stress, as they wrote their English Language paper late in the night yesterday. In many parts of the country, the pape...
•Troops Family members of soldiers killed during recent battles against insurgents in the North-East have mourned the death of their loved ones, urging the government to put an end to the bloodbath in the region. The relatives, who spoke to our correspondents in separate interviews, also called on the federal government to demonstrate genuine ...
•UTME candidates Parents of the candidates affected by the human error which led to a glitch in the 2025 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination have demanded the postponement of the planned resit, which begins today, till June 2025. A post from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on its official X handle on Thursday stated, [&...
•UTME candidates Some parents and candidates sitting for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) being conducted by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) have lamented the high cost of accommodation fees charged by one of the accredited Computer Based Test (CBT) centres in Abia State. The CBT centre located at A...
•Chibok girls in captivity The Borno State Government has donated N10 million and food items to the 276 parents of the kidnapped Chibok girls as part of activities to commemorate their 11th year missing anniversary. According to a statement posted today on the official Facebook page of the state ministry of Information and Internal Security, [...

