Foundation Donates Over N2.5m For WAEC Registration Of 63 Students In Ohafia (Photos)
An education-based non-governmental organisation, Children’s Trust Foundation has donated the sum of N2,520,000 to Ohafia Model High School, Ebem-Ohafia in Abia State for the WAEC Examination registration of 63 SS3 students of the school. This advances the foundation's mission of providing support to students and families with minimal access to quality education. The fund was presented by the founder of the...
Public And Private Schools Can Reopen Monday – Lagos Govt
Private and public schools in Lagos State can reopen from Monday, November 2, 2020. The Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, made this known in a statement on Thursday. The statement was titled, ‘LASG approves reopening of schools from Monday’. It read in part, “The Lagos State Government has approved the re-opening of schools for all classes in public and private schools...
BREAKING: WAEC Withholds Results Of 215,149 Candidates
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says it has withheld the results of 215,149 candidates who wrote this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in Nigeria. Patrick Areghan, head of WAEC Nigeria, broke the news at a briefing in Lagos on Monday morning while announcing the official release of the results of this year’s WASSCE. More to follow… https://abntv.com.ng/2020/11/igbo-agitating-for-biafra-due-to-marginalization-massob/
Anambra Govt Registers Mmesoma For 3-Month Free Counselling
The Anambra State Government has handed over the embattled 19-year-old candidate in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, Ejikeme Mmesoma, to a psychotherapist for three months of guidance and counselling coaching. The state Commissioner for Education, Prof Ngozi Theresa Chuma-Udeh, announced this during a media chat with journalists in Awka on Wednesday. Mmesoma had claimed a score of 362 as opposed...
Achievers University Produces 30 First Class Graduates
No fewer than 30 students of the Achievers University in Owo, Ondo State, would be graduating from the university with first class out of the 467 graduating students. The Vice Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Samuel Aje, disclosed this while speaking with journalists at the 12th convocation ceremony of the university. According to the vice chancellor, who gave the breakdown of...
ABSU College Of Medicine Lost Accreditation Because Its Door Was Not Opened To NUC Inspection Team — Commissioner
Abia State Commissioner for Health, Dr Joe Osuji appeared before the State House of Assembly on Wednesday to offer explanations on why the Abia State University College Of Medicine lost its accreditation. The Assembly had summoned him following the n...
LASU Professor Calls For Single Seven-Year Tenure, Competitive Federalism To Reshape Nigeria’s Democracy
A Professor of International Relations and Strategic Studies at Lagos State University (LASU), Adewunmi Falode, has called for a constitutional amendment to introduce a single, non-renewable seven-year term for elected public officials in Nigeria. Falode made the proposal on Tuesday while delivering LASU’s 115th inaugural lecture titled “Bespoke Solutions: Reimagining, Reifying and Realigning the Wheels of the Nigerian State” at...
NYSC Withdraws Certificates Of 101 Fraudulently Mobilized Corps Members
The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC says ninety-nine persons, with the exemption of two others, were fraudulently mobilised from the University of Calabar between the 2021 and 2023 service years. Consequently, the scheme said the Certificates of National Service of the listed 101 persons, have been invalidated while urging members of the public to confirm the authenticity of certificates presented...
Imo State University Hasn’t Pulled Out Of Strike – ASUU
The Imo State University (IMSU) chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has disclosed that it stands with the national body in the ongoing national struggle for the collective welfare and survival of public university education in Nigeria. ASUU-IMSU said it has not pulled out of the ongoing strike. Recall that Imo State University (IMSU), Owerri, on Monday pulled...
Abia Govt Feeds Primary 4 – 6 Pupils, Ikpeazu’s Aide Insists
Mr Chinenye Nwaogu, the Special Adviser on Social Investment & Intergovernmental Affairs to Abia State Governor, Dr. Okezie Victor Ikpeazu has said the state government under the home grown school feeding feeds primary 4 - 6 pupils in public primary schools in the state. Mr. Nwaogu who is also the Abia State Focal Person on National Homegrown School Feeding Programme...
