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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

Africa’s Sahara may have been ‘the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth’, a palaeontological study has concluded. A team of international researchers found that what is today the famous desert region was home to ‘ferocious predators’ around 100 million years ago. At this time, the Sahara was a vast river system that

There is no date yet for schools in the country to resume despite the announcement by President Muhammadu Buhari, on a gradual lockdown relaxation on the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States, the Federal Government has said. The government also said that the West African Examinations Council has not cancelled its external exams

The National Universities Commission has said that the North-East and North-West regions have only five private universities of the total 79 presently in the country. The NUC Executive Secretary, Prof Abubakar Rasheed, said this in Abuja when he received the Bishop, Sokoto Diocese of the Catholic Church, Matthew Kukah, in his office. Kukah visited the

[contact-form][contact-field label=”Name” type=”name” required=”true” /][contact-field label=”Email” type=”email” required=”true” /][contact-field label=”Website” type=”url” /][contact-field label=”Message” type=”textarea” /][/contact-form] The University of Medical Sciences, Ondo, Ondo State has expressed its readiness to commence the COVID -19 test. The Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Adesegun Fatusi, in an interview with our correspondent said the university had the expertise and equipment

The Oyo State Government on Monday said its commitment to development and building of school facilities, had led to the increase in the enrollment of children in public Basic and Primary schools. Dr Nureni Adeniran, the Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board (Oyo SUBEB), disclosed in a Statement after visiting two newly completed

The Lagos State Ministry of Education has warned private schools in the state to shun the idea of resuming for the third term academic session until the lockdown period is over. In a statement on Thursday, Folasade Adefisayo, commissioner for education, said some private schools are charging parents for third term tuition for online classes.

The Ondo State Government on Thursday said it has partnered a firm, Quickens Computers to provide a platform for electronic-learning, in a bid to ensure pupils get access to studies during the stay-at-home order of the government. The state government had ordered the closure of all educational institutions as part of the measures to stop