The Borno State Government said it had put in place adequate security measures ahead of the reopening of schools. The administration has enlisted the services of local vigilantes to provide safety in the public schools, which were due to open on Monday. Dr Mohammed Dongel, Chairman of the 19-man committee on the resuscitation of primary
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Teachers in both public primary and secondary schools in Osun state yesterday commenced a three-day warning strike to register their grievances over alleged non-payment of running and examination grants to secondary schools for the past three terms. In a statement made available to newsmen in Osogbo by the Principal Secretary, the Nigeria Union of Teachers, Osun State
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Six teenagers, Kabiru Awolu; 18, Oyerogba Pelumi; 18, Quadri Adegbe; 18, Sunday Oyedele; 19; Moshood Otapo; 19 and Esther Lawal; 19, have been charged before an Ikeja Magistrate Court in Lagos, for belonging to an unlawful society known as “AWAWA”. The teenagers who were charged alongside Okere Toyin; 35 and Olusola Abiodun; 24, are also
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The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has revealed plans to extend the online marking of theory papers to more subjects taken in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). At a seminar to interact with examiners on the e-marking scheme last Friday held at WAEC International Office, Agindingbi, Lagos, the council’s Head of National
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The Yobe Government has closed down all public and private schools in the state, following Monday’s suicide bomb attack on Government Science Secondary School, Potiskum. The attack had claimed 48 lives and injured 79 others. The state Commissioner for Education, Alhaji Muhammad Lamin, said in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria
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In a sickening development, scores of students have been killed and several others wounded as an explosion occurred at Government Science College, Potiskum, in Yobe state this morning (Monday). The suicide bomber was said to have dressed in the school’s uniform to avoid any suspicion and detonated the explosive during the assembly period of the
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The Minister of Education, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, has said that, Nigeria recorded mass failure of secondary school pupils in the 2014 Senior Secondary Certificate Examinations in Mathematics and English language due to lack of skilled teachers of the subjects . Shekarau stated this yesterday, in his keynote address at the 60th National Council of Education
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Teachers in Osun have given the state government 14-day ultimatum to pay their outstanding allowances, release running grants and provide instructional materials in schools. This was contained in a letter sent to Gov. Rauf Aregbesola by the state chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers. The union warned that failure by the government to meet
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Following the participation of the Nigerian contingent in the World Schools Debate Competition in Bangkok this year, Nigeria has been granted the hosting rights for the 2015 edition of the competition. According to the Coordinator of the President’s School Debate, Dare Oritu, Nigeria won the hosting rights due to the brilliant performance of the country’s
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Some unconventional activists are taking on Ebola in West Point, Liberia — and they’re not medical professionals, aspiring doctors or government officials. They’re teens. The young activists are members of A-LIFE: Adolescents Leading an Intense Fight Against Ebola, and they’re basically the most kick-ass teenagers in the whole world, as reported by The Daily Beast.
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