•Fubara Rivers Governor Siminalayi Fubara has raised the alarm that 75 per cent of primary schools in the State do not have teachers while 90 per cent are dilapidated. Fubara, who described the condition of primary schools as troubling, said his administration was focused on turning around the fortunes of education, health and agriculture in [...
•Gov Bassey Otu The Cross River State government has announced plans to recruit 6000 new teachers due to a shortage of educators. Stephen Odey, the Commissioner for Education, disclosed this yesterday during a news conference in his office, where he outlined the achievements of his ministry under Governor Bassey Otu. He said Governor Otu has [...
•Some of the kidnapped school children The pupils and teachers of the Apostolic Faith Montessori School in Emure Ekiti kidnapped on January 29 have regained their freedom. The schoolchildren were released earlier today. However, the driver, who was also among the abductees, was killed and burnt by the assailants, reports Channels TV. Efforts t...
•Bandits Parents and relatives of the kidnapped pupils and teachers of the Apostolic Faith Group of Schools, Emure-Ekiti, Ekiti State, have cried out for government to help in rescuing the victims being held hostage by gunmen. The gunmen had on Monday ambushed the school bus conveying the pupils and staff to Eporo-Ekiti, a suburb of […]...
•Gunmen The Ekiti State Government has confirmed the abduction of students, teachers, and a driver in the Emure-Ekiti area of the state but vowed to ensure the victims are rescued. The Frontier had earlier this afternoon reported that gunmen had abducted six pupils and three teachers of a private school and their bus driver while […]
•FCT primary school teachers protest Primary school teachers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), today, staged a protest at the Unity Fountain in Abuja. The protesting teachers accused the FCT Area Councils of poor attention to their welfare, reports Channels TV. The teachers protested the non-payment of salary arrears, promotion arrears a...
All Bassey Sardauna, a teacher at the Government Day Secondary School Model, Jalingo, Taraba State, wanted was for his students to shun vices capable of impacting negatively on their pursuit for a better future. But his good heart and nature, based on findings, seemed to have earned him hatred among some errant students, eventually leading [&h...
About 1700 teachers and education officers recruited into the Federal Unity Colleges in 2019, 2020 and 2021 have called on the federal government to pay their three-year salaries. In an open letter to the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, and copied to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, they appealed for the payment of their salaries [&helli...