Education

SOME universities in the country did not comply with the rules set by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board in the 2019 session in the admission process. The institutions, according to the board which disclosed this in its 2020 policy document, flouted the process which requires that all admissions must be carried out under its […]

The embattled Students’ Union Government (SUG) President of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro (FPI), Ogun state, Adegboye Emmanuel Olatunji who was arrested by men of the state police command for alleged cultism on February 9, 2020 has threatened to commit suicide. Olatunji who was arrested alongside Olarewaju Taiwo in a suicide letter he posted on his

Lagos constitutional lawyer Femi Falana has called on comrades and students to work together to adopt various methods of revitalising the students’ union movement. He said this was important because youths have a role to play in moulding the future. Falana said this while chairing the 20th Anti-Corruption Situation Room (ACSR) with the theme “Harnessing

… Returns Riffle To Police Boss The police has received an AK-47 service riffle snatched from one of its operatives at Itu-Odukpani bridge, the boundary between Cross River State and Akwa Ibom State. Grassroot Reporters gathered that the riffle was snatched from one of the police officers attached to the Cross River State Covid-19 Interstate

The Federal Government has commended the Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki for his administration’s investment in education. Education Secretary, National Commission for Colleges of Education, Prof Bappa-Aliyu Muhammadu, gave the commendation during the inspection of ongoing construction work at the Tayo Akpata University of Education, Ekiadolor, which is the site for the new Federal College

Governor Samuel Ortom has signed two bills for the conversion of Alfred Akawe Torkula College of Advanced and Professional Studies, AATCAPS, to Alfred Akawe Torkula Polytechnic, Makurdi and Akperan Orshi College of Agriculture, Yandev to Akperan Orshi Polytechnic, Yandev. He said the two institutions were part of his administration’s deliberate efforts to reposition the education

A former diplomat, Chief Arthur Mbanefo, has donated a research centre fitted with a digital library to the University of Lagos (UNILAG). The facility named the Arthur Mbanefo Digital Research Centre (AMDRC) was bequeathed to the university Friday, last week as part of activities to celebrate the donor’s 90th birthday. Mbanefo said he had always

One major effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Nigerian education system is that it has focused more attention on e-learning. With schools shut, online classes are the means by which students keep abreast of their studies. However, the classes are not possible without e-learning devices like computers or mobile phones with internet access. This

To commemorate the 2020 Children’s Day, the Out-of-School Children Empowerment Foundation in collaboration with Daniel Ogechi Akujobi Memorial (DOEM) organised a two-day programme to de-worm and give vital supplements to vulnerable children in Lagos and Ogun states. Health Programmes Officer of DOEM, Catherine Olukotun, said the event was aimed at sensitising the beneficiaries on the