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8 Sep 2016
Based on current trends, Universal Primary Education (UPE), which was supposed to have been achieved in 2015, under the 2000 Dakar Education For All agreement, won’t be realised until 2042. Universal Lower Secondary Completion...
7 Sep 2016
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has called on the Federal Government to raise a formidable team that could come up with sustainable solutions to the nation’s current economic quagmire.
4 Sep 2016
For Anu, also known as Lady Ekwe, the beats of her percussion is expected to take her round the world in the next few days. Noted as Nigeria’s only female percussionist ...
26 Aug 2016
In his inaugural speech on May 29, 2015, Governor Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade of Cross River State announced the construction of two signature projects, the superhighway and Bakassi Deep Sea Port.
15 Aug 2016
The President of Youth Orientation for Development (YOD), a non-governmental organisation affiliated to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), Mr. Emmanuel Ejiogu...
14 Aug 2016
Education administration experts have blamed the existence of unaccredited courses in universities on underfunding of education by government, noting that majority of the universities whose academic ...
14 Aug 2016
The above title by Kabir Alabi Garba in The Guardian of Sunday, July 31, 2016, on the paper presented by Dr. Wale Adeniran at the second festival colloquium of the 50th anniversary of the creation of Lagos State ...
14 Aug 2016
It was theatre director Mr. Wole Oguntokun, who succinctly expressed the telling view that ‘A country without culture (expressed through a healthy artistic engagement through writing, theatre, film ...
14 Aug 2016
An official of the Ikom Local Government Council has issued a desperate appeal for federal and state government intervention to salvage Cross River State’s famous “monoliths” (intricately carved stones, usually arrayed in circles).
12 Aug 2016
President Muhammadu Buhari has challenged economically advanced countries to rise up to the task of saving the fast-receding Lake Chad from the impact of climate change.
Receiving the visiting Director-General of UNESCO...
12 Aug 2016
The United Nations’ Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has expressed willingness to strengthen relationship with Nigeria in development of tertiary education and expansion of its programmes.
1 Aug 2016
Recently, the Lagos State Government recruited about 1300 teachers to teach in the 1100 public primary schools in the state.It was the first time in over 14 years that the state government had undertaken such a mass recruitment to address the inadequacy...
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