The Kwara State College of Arabic and Islamic Legal Studies (CAILS) has secured full accreditation and approval for its six National Diploma (ND) programmes from the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE.) CAILS recently presented the programmes for accreditation and resource verification. According to the accreditation report, National Diploma (ND) Accounting and ND Computer Science…

President of the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN), Bishop Wale Oke, has urged Nigerians not to lose hope in the country, assuring that there is hope for Nigeria. He stated that Nigeria's economy will rebound, the education sector will revive and infrastructural development will pick up. Briefing journalists after the closing of the 18th Biennial…

The Cross River Government has begun to probe acts of encroachment and illegal occupation of government property in the state. Leader of the probe team, Mr Gilbert Agbor, who visited the premises of the Teachers Training College, Calabar Municipality on Friday, decried the ‘massive scale’ encroachment on the school. Agbor said that the Gov. Bassey…

The 12th Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, (UniLag) Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has called on Nigerian governments to fund education

An Abuja High Court on Thursday admitted eight exhibits tendered by the Premiere Academy of Abuja to establish its N500 million defamation suit instituted against a journalist, Lemmy Ughegbe. Premiere Academy had dragged the journalist who is also an activist before the court claiming N500 million in damages for defamation. The school alleged that Ughegbe…

The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), on Wednesday, condemned an assault against a lecturer of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State. It would be recalled that the university was thrown into chaos on Tuesday when a yet-to-be-identified female student of the school pounced on one of the lecturers in the university, identified as Dr…

Clinical lecturers at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, have begun an indefinite strike over the non-payment of their salaries under the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS). In a statement signed by the Chairman, Dr. Ruth Ilori, and Secretary, Dr. Abraham Akinbola, on Wednesday, the lecturers condemned the salary shortfall, describing it as unfair,…

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The Exam Ethics Marshalls International has raised the alarm that 67 per cent of private and public secondary schools in Nigeria operate as exam magic centres, popularly known as 'miracle centres'. This is even as it encouraged parents to play a key role in enforcing the government's ban on levies in public schools by refusing…

The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has debunked the misleading reports suggesting that the Federal Government has scrapped Junior Secondary School (JSS) and Senior Secondary School (SSS). This is contained in a statement made available by the Director, Press and Public Relations, Folasade Boriowo, on Friday in Abuja. Boriowo quoted the Minister to have…

At just 10 years old, Osaivbie Izedonmwen has accomplished a remarkable literary feat—reading 200 books in a single year. Inspired by his love for storytelling, he announced his ambitious goal in February 2024 and completed it on 18 December 2024, finishing The Penguin Club by Achalugo Chioma Ilozumba. Throughout his reading journey, Osaivbie delved into…

The Ogun State government has disclosed strides the Dapo Abiodun’s administration has made in improving access to quality education in the state, revealing that the government built and rehabilitated over 1,474 classrooms across the state. Speaking at a press conference, the Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, revealed that the state government…