Foundation Pays 550 Students NECO/WAEC Enrollment Fees:The Sergius Oseasochie Ogun Foundation has offset the 2014 NECO/WAEC enrollment fees for 550 students drawn from Esan North and Esan South East local government areas of Edo State.According to the founder of the Foundation, Deacon Sergius Ogun, each of the students will receive …
Students Mobilze Masquerades to School in Osun:For two days running, tension continues to mount in Iwo, Osun state as situation at Baptist High School, Iwo yesterday took a new dimension when some students of the school mobilized masquerades to the school .The students of the school, it was gathered also …
The Federal Government on Wednesday appealed to an oil company, Total Upstream, to adopt King’s College, Lagos, as its school for continued assistance, saying that they both represented twin brands of excellence.The Supervising Minister of Education, Chief Nyesom Wike, made the appeal at the commissioning and handing over of projects at …
The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 24th Nigerian Universities Games Associations (NUGA) Games on Wednesday said that over 6,000 athletes and officials would participate in the competition.The Games are scheduled to hold at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Osun, from Feb. 12 to Feb. 22.Prof. Bayo Omole, the …
There was confusion at Baptist High School, Iwo, Osun State on Tuesday as some pupils shunned their uniforms and wore choir gowns, white garments, Islamic apparel and other unconventional dresses to the school.Although no group or individual could be identified as the mastermind of the bizarre dress code by the …
Gov. Adams Oshiomhole of Edo on Wednesday said that the competency test to be conducted for teachers of public schools in the state would also be extended to private schools.Oshiomhole, who disclosed this in Benin at a meeting with Civil Society Organisations, said that there was need to cleanse not …
The Federal Ministry of Education and 21 agencies under it are to spend about N1.4bn on foreign and local trips in 2014, The PUNCH findings have shown.This is apart from the N526.8m budgeted for the office of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, which has its secretariat in …
The Nigerian College of Aviation Technology (NCAT) Zaria, has disclosed plans to start training students to fly helicopter even as the college would start this year leading to the award of degrees.Speaking in an interview on the progress made by the college in the past three years, Captain Chinyere Kalu, …
Jos – Academic activities at the Nigerian Institute of Mining and Geosciences, Jos, were totally paralysed on Monday, when postgraduate students of the institute staged a peaceful protest over what they described as inhuman treatment by the school management.Our correspondent gathered that as early as 8 am, the students in …
Not fewer than 10 million Nigerian children are illiterates, according to the Minister of State for Education, Nyesom Wike.Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony of Federal Government Universal Basic Education (UBE), Special Vocational School, Ukana in Essien Udim Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, the Minister said about nine million …