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  Governor Babatunde Fashola has commended the skills and enterprise of students who engage in traffic trading stating that it takes high level of mental coordination and expertise to trade in the traffic without hazards. He said; “I have travelled to many places in the world, but I have not seen where youths trading on […]

  (By Uchechukwu Udoji) Former Assistant Dean, Faculty of Law, University of Benin, Mr. Isu-Ochiora Okogeri, has been arraigned before a Benin High Court for allegedly accepting a bribe to facilitate the transfer of a female student to the Faculty of Law of the university. The university teacher is being charged on a one-count charge

  (By Dotun Onimole) A surge in gang violence has prompted education officials in South Africa’s Western Cape Province to close 16 schools for two days. At least 50 people are reported to have been wounded or killed after being shot in areas of Cape Town’s Manenberg suburb in recent weeks. Provincial Premier Helen Zille

  (By Mairo Danlami) An Arizona school district is asking parents to help prevent school gun violence by signing a contract promising to lock their weapons. Flowing Wells Unified School District near Tucson recently sent home the gun violence contract as part of its 2013-2014 registration packet, according to the Arizona Daily Independent, a conservative

  A video clip showing a primary school teacher in Edo State, Mrs. Augusta Odemwingie, who failed a reading test conducted by Governor Adams Oshiomhole, has continued to generate a debate on YouTube. The clip is currently the most viewed out of the 68 videos available on the state government’s YouTube channel. It has attracted

  A university lecturer, Dr. Moses Mabayoje, has stressed the need to intensify efforts in the study and use of Yoruba language to guard against its extinction. Mabayoje, who is a Yoruba Language expert, said this while presenting 10 students, on a two-month course on Yoruba from two American universities, to the Vice-Chancellor, University of

  The end to the present strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) may be in sight as President Goodluck Jonathan has approved N400 billion for the infrastructural development of Nigerian universities. The document to this effect is expected to be made available today at the meeting of the presidential committee on implementation

  The meeting between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government, has once again ended in a stalemate. Governor Gabriel Suswam announced at the end of the closed-door meeting which lasted for about three hours, that N100billion will be disbursed by September 1, to tackle infrastructure deficit in the country’s universities.

  The United States colleges topped the  global higher education ranking with 17 of its universities in the top 20 institutions. Some institutions swapped places in the top 20 but they were all still there except for the University of Tokyo, which slipped a place to make way for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, ETH

  President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday directed the two Federal Government committees negotiating the requests by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), to take immediate measures at ending the on-going strike. The Chairman of the Universities Needs Implementation Committee, Gov. Gabriel Suswam of Benue, made this known after a closed-door meeting of the two committees and