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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

  Kogi State Universal Education Board, SUBEB, has made a rattling revelation that about 520 teachers employed by the State Government for the primary school sector possessed fake certificates. The Chairman of the board, Alhaji Usman Jibrin disclosed this to the House of Assembly Committee on Education during the appraisal of the 2013 budget and

The Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, said on Thursday that the body’s paper-pencil test (PPT) and computer-based test (CBT) will hold on April 12 and May 17 respectively in 2,000 centres across the country. Ojerinde stated this in a chat with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Bwari, Federal Capital Territory (FCT). “We

  The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, in Ebonyi State, yesterday, arrested a serial rapist and homosexual, Chibuike Maduka, who allegedly raped four children of different parents at Ndibe in Afikpo North Local Government Area of the state. The teen said his mother, Mrs. Idam Augustina Josephine, was responsible for his strange sexual

A bullied teenager has been jailed after stabbing a girl in the face and smashing another’s head against a fence – because they called him Harry Potter. Ryan Walker, 19, wears glasses and has short dark hair, just like actor Daniel Radcliffe who plays the young wizard in the hit film series. A court heard

  The Governor of the State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola yesterday said that his government neither approved nor disapproved  the use of hijab in any school. The governor while making his remarks at the peace meeting between the Muslim Community and Christian Community at the Baptist High School in Iwo and the distribution and

  Students of tertiary institutions in the country have appealed to President Goodluck Jonathan to end the lingering nationwide strike by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP). Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abakaliki on Tuesday, the students said time had come for the president to personally wade into the dispute

  Another strike by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is imminent as there is fear over the implementation of the Memorandum of Understanding reached with the federal government. Indications emerged as the national treasurer of ASUU, Dr Tunde Aremu, while speaking at a luncheon held in honour of media for their

It’s been dubbed the “Venice of Africa” but comparisons between the sprawling Lagos community of Makoko and the historic Italian city begin and end at the water’s edge. Makoko’s makeshift huts rise from the murky waters of the lagoon around Nigeria’s biggest city, a far cry from the ornate bridges and buildings that mark out