•Nigerian Senate The Senate Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development has called on the federal government to introduce compulsory, hands-on agricultural studies at the secondary school level. The committee’s chairman, Senator Saliu Mustapha, made the call at a public lecture organised by the Department of Agricultural Extension and Rural...
•Education Minister, Tahir Mamman Ahead of the planned nationwide protest, the Minister of Education Tahir Mamman has directed vice-chancellors of universities to take proactive steps to ensure the security and safety of the university community, including staff and students. A statement today by the acting Executive Secretary of the National ...
•Governor Alia The Benue State Bureau for Education Quality Assurance (BEQA) in collaboration with the Benue State Urban Development Board has vowed to demolish all substandard schools by the end of the 2023/2024 academic session. Dr. Terna Francis made the disclosure when he led a delegation to the Urban Development Board. He stressed BEQA’s ...
•US Flag The governor of Louisiana has signed a bill requiring the Ten Commandments to be displayed in every public school classroom in the conservative US state, reports BBC. The bill signed yesterday, has reignited intense debates over the separation of church and state. The legislation, the first of its kind in the nation, mandates [&hellip...
The Adamawa State Government has ordered the immediate closure of all public and private schools in the state following the outbreak of measles. The directive, which was given today, is aimed at mitigating the spread of the disease and enabling the State Primary Health Care Development Agency (PHCDA) to vaccinate the vulnerable age group, repo...
•A car is stranded on a flooded street in Dubai today Schools and many offices were closed across the United Arab Emirates today as heavy rains returned to the desert country just two weeks after record downpours that experts linked to climate change. A lightning storm with high winds swept across the oil-rich monarchy […]
•Kenya floods Kenya said today that it would postpone the reopening of schools by one week due to “ongoing heavy rains” that have triggered deadly floods in the East African nation. Schools were originally scheduled to reopen today, following mid-term holidays, but the torrential monsoon downpours have affected many educational facilities, pro...
•Closed school Schools where mass abductions took place in some states in the North have remained shut many months after, raising concern of exacerbating the out-of-school challenge facing the region, investigations reveal. Schools in Niger, Kaduna, Katsina and Kebbi, among others, had faced mass abductions of school children, reports Daily Tr...
•Israeli flag Schools were set to reopen across Israel on Monday, the army announced, after they were ordered closed due to Iran’s unprecedented aerial attack over the weekend. Iran launched more than 300 missiles and drones at Israeli territory on Saturday night, the vast majority of which were intercepted by Israel and its allies, the [&hell...
•Soludo Governor Chukwuma Soludo has banned the extension of classes in all schools in Anambra State and directed all schools to dismiss by 2:30 pm. Soludo in what looks like a swift response to the observation of the Catholic Bishop of Awka, Rev Dr Paulinus Ezeokafor said the state government has adopted the United Nations […]

