Education

At least 98 teachers and 1,800 learners in South Africa’s Covid-19 epicentre province, the Western Cape, have tested positive for the Covid-19 coronavirus, forcing 20 schools to close. The schools will be disinfected this week. The southern African nation allowed schools to reopen from June 1. Education MEC Debbie Schafer, however, said the cases had

Lagos State Government has postponed entrance exams into secondary schools indefinitely. Lagos, through its State Examinations Board, LSEB, postponed, indefinitely, 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination, BECE, into its Junior Secondary Schools in the state due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The examination was earlier scheduled for June 16 to 23, 2020. Director, LSEB, Mr. Supo Gbadegesin,

Ekiti State Universal Basic Education Board has begun a new programme, titled ‘Reading Parents on Radio’ to reenact reading culture among youngsters. SUBEB Chairman, Prof Francisca Aladejana, said the programme was part of efforts of the Dr Kayode Fayemi administration to promote the culture of reading among school-age children and youths in the state. The

Ever since I revealed that the Governor of Kaduna state had sent me an email wherein he said that Southern women youth corpers were seen as “whores”, there have been multiple sophisticated attempts to hack my email account. I do not know why anyone will be stupid enough to think that a meticulous record keeper

‘Bond Nwanne,’ the former manager of popular singer musician, Phyno has published a book titled “Grounded ways to the music industry”. He said the book touches on “artistes understanding the music business, developmental processes of an artiste’s talent, branding both online and offline, carving a niche for yourself and building a formidable fan base. It

Sokoto State government plans to establish more non-formal learning centres (NFLC) under its Better Education Service Delivery for All (BESDA). Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education Alhaji Muhammad Gwiwa, said the decision to open more centres was informed by more children expressing their willingness to enrol in the programme. Gwiwa, who spoke while inspecting a

The University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoko has been ranked third most productive school in educating entrepreneurs in Africa. According to a report by Forbes entitled: “If You Want To Start A Tech-Company In Africa, Go To College”, the university is the startup powerhouse of Nigeria. The University of Cape Town and the Makerere led in

A firm, Platform Capital, has renovated and handed over three ultra-modern lecture halls to the Executive MBA programme of the University of Lagos Business School (ULBS). The firm’s Chairman, Dr. Akintoye Akindele, also pledged a $10,000 prize to the best graduating student of the Executive MBA programme; automatic employment at Platform Capital and its portfolio

Distribution of take home rations to 37,589 families of public primary school pupils in Lagos State under National Home Grown School Feeding Programme (NHGSFP) ended May 28. The exercise was given a pass mark by many stakeholders save for calls from some quarters for greater scrutiny and transparency to ensure the food gets to the

The Department of Industrial Chemistry, University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), has emerged the academic unit of the institution with the highest number of research publications in the last five years (2016 to 2019). This was contained in a report published in April 2020 by a renowned academic and research review platform, SciVal. The report showed three