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Stakeholders in Nigeria’s education sector have said that government’s inability to alleviate the fundamental challenges in the sector is responsible for the poor performance of students in the qualifying examinations organised by the National Examinations Council (NECO) and the West African Examination Council. Leading this call was the WAEC Chairman, Professor Pai Obanya, who was

There was pandemonium, yesterday, in Egor Local Government Area of Edo State, when a JSS III student of Useh Secondary School, identified simply as Osamudiamen, was found dead in a pool of water. When the news of his death got to the authorities of the school, both students and teachers raced to the scene to

Yet again, students of the Lagos State University, LASU, and Civil Society groups, yesterday, took to major roads before storming Lagos State House and state House of Assembly in protest against government decision not to reverse the hike in tuition fee. As a result, normal business and traffic at Alausa and environs were partially halted

University of  Lagos is set to name a 15-storey girls hostel after Dame Patience Goodluck Jonathan this Friday. At a briefing  yesterday, the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor Duro Oni, said the 15-storey building expected to cost about N3 billion would be named after the First Lady because of her contributions towards women folks. He said: “It

    Fakunle Comprehensive High School in Oshogbo, scheduled for termination as part of the education reform policy of Governor Rauf Aregbesola, is now being demolished. Residents near the school told SaharaReporters the demolition began late on Saturday evening.  The property is being heavily guarded by policemen who have formed a secondary wall around it.

  The University of Ilorin on Tuesday said it had expelled three undergraduate students for internet fraud and theft. The institution also reprimanded 40 other students of the institution for violating the university’s dress code. Adeyemi Daniel Oluwaseyi of the Basic Medical Sciences was found guilty of unlawfully taking possession of ATM card and PIN

Lagos State University (LASU) Senate has fixed Monday, February 24, to reopen  the school, shut down  three  weeks ago following students unrest. After several hours of deliberations by the school’s Senate made up of Provosts, Deans and Directors, it was directed that the university be re-opened  to allow  final year students across all departments to sit for their 2012/2013

You know those genius, almost sentient quadcopters that can learn new skills like juggle balls, fly in tandem, work together, go through hoops, attach themselves to wall and basically do things that will eventually destroy mankind? This guy, Kai Hou, is like the human equivalent of those. He’s an acrobatic master that can flip, spin,

National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) on Monday blocked the gate of the Federal Ministry of Education, Abuja, preventing vehicles from moving in and out of the premises to protest the over eight months strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP). The students, who said the demonstration was the beginning of

  A headmaster in Delta, Mr Larry Okeleke, has been ordered to refund within seven days the N233,800 he allegedly collected from his pupils without any authorisation. The order is contained in a statement issued on Thursday in Asaba by Prof. Patrick Muoboghare, the Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education in the state. Okeleke is the headmaster