14 year old Ahmed Mohamed was arrested after he’d made a clock at home and took it to his school – MacArthur High School, Irving, to show his engineering teacher who congratulated him. The homemade clock consisted of a circuit board with wires leading to a digital display. However, another teacher who heard it beeping sound
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In a bid to generate more revenue and make Education functional in Ekiti State, students of public secondary schools in Ekiti state are to contribute a token of N1, 000 per term and those of Primary Schools are to pay N500 respectively towards educational development in the State. The Ekiti State Commissioner for Education, Science
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Some public secondary schools’ students in Osun State, yesterday, protested against the demands for three years tax clearance from their parents by the Osun State Government. By the new tax regime of the state government, an adult artisan is expected to pay a sum of N1, 500 per year as tax, while the arrears of
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The National Universities Commission has released a list of 57 illegal degree awarding institutions operating in Nigeria or any of its other campuses in the country. The Executive Secretary of NUC, Prof. Julius Okojie, warned that certificates obtained from the institutions would not be accorded recognition for the purpose of election and participation in the
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The University of Lagos said a total of 17, 935 candidates of the 31,955 that sat for its 2015 Post Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) recently, passed the screening exercise, NAN reports. This is contained in a statement signed by the institution’s Deputy Registrar, Information, Mr Olagoke Oke in Lagos. It would be recalled that
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says arrangement has been concluded for the sale of its 2016 application forms starting from August 31, 2015. This is contained in a statement by the board’s Head of Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria yesterday in Lagos. According to the
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Jean Gough, Country Director, United Nations International Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that no fewer than 10.5 million Nigerian children are out of school. Gough stated this on Tuesday in Bauchi while exchanging views with Gov. Mohammed Abubakar of Bauchi State at the Government House. She said that UNICEF was collaborating with some stakeholders to strengthen
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The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has released results of more than 200,000 candidates which were withheld due to the indebtedness of their various states to the council. Affected candidates can now check their results at the council’s website. Head of WAEC National Office, Nigeria, Mr Charles Eguridu, had at a press briefing in Abuja
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The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, Wednesday explained why it would release the results of the , May/June 2015 West African Senior School Certificate, WASSCE, that was earlier withhold due to indebtedness by the states, saying it was because of the prevailing economic challenges facing the country. Head of the Nigeria National Office of WAEC,
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About 15,000 teachers from three South Western states working under a Federal Teachers’ Scheme yesterday protested in Ibadan over non-payment of their salaries by the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC. The teachers, led by Miss Lawal Bukola and Mr. Obayomi Gideon complained that the commission owes them about N2. 6 billion. Some of their placards
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