NERDC
15 Oct
Federal Government has introduced 15 different trades or skills into the new curriculum for basic schools in Nigeria, The Guardian reports. This comes as the government announces that the new curriculum, which is mandatory for all public and private schools across
8 Oct
Nigeria is currently at a digital war following the exposure of abortion-related content in a Junior Secondary School (JSS3) science textbook, which has caused intense debate over the country's educational system, moral values, and how financial hardship is influencing reproductive decisions. The controversy started with a viral post on X (formerly Twitter) after user Alex…
8 Oct
Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, recently decried low sign-up in technical colleges and called on their heads to urgently explore ways of populating the labs. Stakeholders, however, reckon that beyond the quick-fix measure...
19 Aug
As part of efforts to deepen the market and make it more robust, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has unveiled plans to develop a focused strategy that would attract the younger generation to the capital market.
14 Jun
Malam Kashifu Inuwa, the Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), on Friday called for an overhaul of curriculums across all levels to meet the 21st Century digital skills.
21 May
After 14 years, the Federal Government has commenced the review of the syllabus of technical colleges in the country. To this end, the Nation
4 Jan
Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, has emphasised the need for a yearly review of the secondary education curriculum to enable it meet current realities.
Latest
30 mins ago
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has revealed that an attempt to embrace smoking as a young man could have led him down a destructive path, stating, "I could have become addicted." Obasanjo made the disclosure on Sunday during the Fly Above The High anti-drug campaign conference held in Abeokuta, Ogun State. Obasanjo, who admitted he once…
52 mins ago
Elder statesman Chief Edwin Clark has accused former President Muhammadu Buhari of oppressing and humiliating Justice Walter Onnoghen, the former Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), as part of a calculated move to secure re-election in 2019. Clark alleged that Buhari, in collaboration with his then Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami…
59 mins ago
The United Nations (UN) Climate Change Conference (COP29) that brought together nearly 200 countries in Baku, Azerbaijan, closed yesterday with a new financial goal to help countries protect their people and economies against climate disasters
1 hour ago
With the headline inflation heading up again after a short-lived breather ahead of Christmas spending as well as the renewed pressure on the naira, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) appears set to announce another interest rate hike when it wraps up its meeting tomorrow.
1 hour ago
Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sokoto Matthew Kukah has said that Nigeria’s presidents since independence, except President Bola Tinubu, assumed office by accident. Nevertheless, he lamented that the country still suffers despite Tinubu..
1 hour ago
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, has disclosed that the country’s decision to remove the petrol subsidy and adopt market-based pricing for foreign exchange has saved the nation an estimated $20 billion.
1 hour ago
Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr Musa Adamu Aliyu, at the weekend, revealed that the commission had tracked over 5,000 uncompleted projects since 2019 valued at N74 billion.
1 hour ago
To ease the burden of fuel costs as the year winds up, Dangote Refinery has announced a reduction in the price of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), also known as petrol, by N20 from N990 per litre to N970.
2 hours ago
The Bank of Industry (BoI) said it had disbursed about N107 billion to over 1.5 million small and medium-scale enterprises (SMEs), a figure it originally hoped to cover this year.
2 hours ago
Following economic headwinds that continued to paralyse business activities, many international and local employers have begun to reduce their office space, increasing vacancy rates in the commercial real estate market.