•UNILAG gate The University of Lagos has debunked online reports about the delay of NELFund loans reimbursement to students of the university who paid their obligatory fees prior to the university’s receipt of the loan. The institution’s Head of Communication Unit, Mrs Adejoke Alaga-Ibraheem, debunked the report in a statement yesterday. Alaga...
•Education minister, Dr. Tunji Alausa The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has lamented that 85 per cent of Nigerian students sent abroad on government scholarships never returned to contribute to national development. He also enjoined tertiary institutions nationwide to phase out satellite campuses, describing them as unsustainable and...
Southsouth and Southeast students have given reasons for their low participation in the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND). Some of the students told our reporters that they had passive knowledge of the scheme; others were uninterested in it, reports The Nation. While those with a passive idea blamed poor sensitisation by relevant authorit...
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has made a startling disclosure about a polytechnic in the Southeast region, which receives billions of naira in annual intervention funds despite having a remarkably small student population of only 30. Executive Secretary of the Fund, Sonny Echono, stated this today in Abuja at the 2025 one-day str...
•Myanmar Police Junta forces bombed a school in central Myanmar, killing more than a dozen children, the country’s exiled civilian administration told Radio Free Asia today. A jet fired at Sagaing region’s Oe Htein Kwin village in Tabayin township, which is under rebel control. “As far as we know now, 17 young students have died […]...
The Oyo State House of Assembly is taking steps to outlaw the use of mobile phones by students in public schools across the 33 local government areas. A lawmaker representing Akinyele 1 State Constituency, Hon. Olalekan Abiola, in a motion titled “The Need to Ban the Use of Mobile Phones in Secondary Schools in the […]
Nigeria’s largest airline, Air Peace, has urged students enrolled in full-time educational programmes at accredited institutions in the UK, Europe, USA and Canada to take advantage of its exclusive 15 per cent student discount on economy-class tickets for flights between Nigeria and London. Head of Corporate Communications, Air Peace, Dr Ejike...
•Harvard University Harvard University has unveiled a new financial aid initiative that will make tuition free for students from families earning up to $200,000 annually, starting with the 2025–26 academic year. “Putting Harvard within financial reach for more individuals widens the array of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives that all ...
•Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State Secondary School principals and teachers in Anambra State have been authorised to confiscate mobile phones brought to school by students. This is to curb distractions and enhance academic performance, reports NAN. Prof. Nkechi Ikediugwu, Chairman, Post Primary Schools Service Commission, Anambra State...
•Students protest Students in Ogun State staged a protest yesterday, blocking the Lagos-Ibadan expressway over the alleged abduction and murder of Quadri Adedamola Ogunbode, a 2024 Political Science/Education graduate of the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo. The protest, which took place on the Mowe axis of the expressway, aimed to draw the ...
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