The Star Deepwater Petroleum Limited, a Chevron company and its co-venturers in the Agbami field have donated a hybrid library to CMS Grammar School, Bariga, Lagos, to enhance learning and qualitative education in the school. Co-venturers of Agbami field which include; Famfa Oil Limited, Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation NNPC, Statoil Nigeria Limited and Petroleo Brasileiro
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Nigeria’s army says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women during a military operation against Boko Haram militants, CNN reports. The offensive took place in the Sambisa Forest, in the northeast of Nigeria, and destroyed three militant camps there, the army said on its Twitter account. “We cannot confirm if the Chibok girls are
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A cheating student who hacked into his school’s computers to give himself a better degree has been jailed. Dailymail reports that Imran Uddin, 25, used a keyboard spying device to steal staff passwords and then upped five of his exam marks, including one from 57 per cent to 73 per cent. The final-year bio-science student at
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Niger has shut all schools in the region around the capital Niamey and launched a campaign to vaccinate children aged 2 to 15 in an effort to halt a meningitis outbreak that has killed at least 85 since January. Schools will be closed from Wednesday until Monday next week, the government said in a statement,
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Vice President-elect, Professor Yemi Osinbajo yesterday said teachers in the country’s public schools will get free tertiary education when the next administration is sworn in on May 29, this year. Osinbajo disclosed this during a consultative meeting with Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and members of Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT in Ikeja. The
Just as it’s been done in advanced countries, the Chairman, Board of Governors of Olashore International School, Prince Bimbo Olashore, has unfolded plans to deploy iPads in classrooms. Speaking at the 2015 Apple iPad Summit organised by Core Group Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa, Olashore said that Nigeria cannot also wait for technology transfer any
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The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has disclosed, it’s high time secondary school students started preparing to write the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations, WASSCE, through Computer Based Test, CBT. This came as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Liberia, Mr Augustine Ngafuan urged WAEC to introduce Group-Work in classroom into their marking
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The twenty-one Chibok schoogirls who escaped when Boko Haram abducted hundreds of them on 14 April last year are back in class at the American University of Nigeria in the north-eastern Adamawa State. Over 200 others have remained in captivity almost one year after they were taken hostage. Among those who have returned to school,
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This is exactly how far some parents would go to ensure their children excel in school exams. Pictures of parents of secondary school students scaling the wall of a school building and hanging from windows to hand cheat sheets to their children have gone viral in India. Cheating in school tests is an old Indian
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Nancie Atwell, a teacher at the Center for Teaching and Learning in Edgecomb, Maine, United States, has emerged the first ever winner of the $1m Varkey Foundation Global Teacher Prize. The prize was set set up to shine a spotlight on the important roles teachers play in the society by Dubai-based Education entrepreneur and philanthropist.
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