Education

The management of Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Lagos have announced that there would be a partial resumption of duty begining Monday, May 4, 2020.. This follows the presidential directive to ease and gradually phase out the lockdown measures in order to reduce the spread of Coronavirus pandemic. A release by the institution’s Deputy Registrar […]

Sequel to the Covid -19 pandemic and the directive from the Federal Ministry of Education for Universities to resume academic activities with the use of appropriate E- learning platforms; the management of the University have approved the use of this methodology for her academic activities. The revolutionary development in the field of information technology and

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has returned N3.5 billion to the Federation Account from the excess generated from its operations during the conduct of 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The board said it had earlier returned N3.5b to the government following the sales of ePINs to UTME candidates, bringing the total remittances this year

As dates for reopening the country are continually pushed back, virtually every aspect of life has been disrupted. Holidays, birthdays, weddings and funerals have begun to be virtualized in order for attendees to maintain social distances. It’s an inevitability the class of 2020 has no doubt been dreading for months. Here’s some consolation from Facebook:

Policemen, Yaba Local Council Development Area workers were among the main beneficiaries of 600 face masks produced by the University of Lagos (UNILAG) The face masks, made from local fabric by the Home Economics unit of the university’s Department of Science and Technology Education were donated to policemen at Bariga and Sabo police stations, which

The world is not the same. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has disrupted everything – education inclusive. The whole of the second term holidays for the 2019/2020 academic session was spent observing the lockdown put in place by the Federal Government to check the spread of the virus. As schools cannot resume yet physically, virtual learning

Parents can now heave a sigh of relief over data cost for e-learning as the Federal Ministry of Education (FME) has partnered two e-learning platforms to provide data-free access to educational content to primary and secondary school pupils forced to stay home because of the pandemic. The websites, schoolgate.ng and mobileclassroom.com.ng can be accessed data-free

Some 270, final year and postgraduate students have been mailed reading resources for research methodology to aid their preparation for project writing amid the lockdown. Mr. Ibraheem Kanmi, founder of Cashcow Group, announced the largesse on his twitter handle, calling on the students to send their email addresses to receive the materials. He told The

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has rejected the plan for online resumption of the 2019/2020 third term by private school owners in the territory. FCTA also urged parents and guardians to ignore the purported resumption by the private school owners. In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, the acting Education Secretary for FCT, Umar Marafa,

Prof. Segun Ajiboye, the Registrar of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), says Africa must develop infrastructure to integrate technology into learning following lessons learnt from the COVID-19 experience. Ajiboye stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Tuesday while speaking on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic