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  The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’I, said on Thursday in Abuja that French would be part of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) as from 2014 for interested  candidates. Rufa’I said this at a farewell reception held in honour of the French Language Project Manager, Mr Jean-Phillipe Roy. She said that being multi-lingual […]

  At nine years, Master Lucky Ayolu, from Ekeni in Southern Ijaw Local Government of Bayelsa State, lost his father and mother.. Unexpectedly, life became cruel to him as he learnt to fend for himself. He told newsmen that he took to fishing to pay for his fees in primary and secondary schools, as his

  A teenager in Colorado, US, allegedly stabbed her mother 79 times in the face and neck after emailing her “you will pay”. Isabella Yun-Mi Guzman, 18, had allegedly also spat in her mother’s face the day she attacked her in the bathroom of their Aurora home last week, ABC7 News Denver reports. The teen’s

  Fourteen-year-old Mwanaharabu Wamukoya of Harambee village in Kakamega County, Kenya was admitted to Bungoma District Hospital on Saturday evening and had a Cesarean Section on Sunday to deliver the three baby boys. Two of the new-born weighed 1.5 kilograms while the third one weighed 1.3 kilograms. Nursing officer-in-charge Mary Marumbu said the babies and their

  19-year old Brazilian girl, Adriana Andrade who was cheating on her boyfriend has swallowed her phone to prevent him from reading her text messages. According to reports, her boyfriend demanded to see her phone, when he suspected she was cheating on him, but Adriana refused and swallowed the phone instead. She was later rushed

  The Federal Government on Tuesday claimed it had met almost all the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities after releasing an additional N30 billion to the union. Gabriel Suswam, Chairman of the National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy (NEEDS) assessment implementation committee for universities, said that the Ministry of Education would disburse the

  Unless handlers of schools and the education system engage the services of qualified Mathematics teachers and expose them to universal modern tools, the incidence of mass failure in the subject will continue, Mathematical Association of Nigeria has said. President, MAN, Prof. Uche Agwagah, who stated this on Tuesday in Asaba, Delta State, while answering

  The federal government has said that students guilty of cheating on school certificate examinations would spend five years in jail or be liable to a N250 000 fine. Education Minister Prof Ruqayyat Rufai made the announcement after a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan wherein a bill to amend

  Minister of Information, Mr. Labaran Maku, said on Wednesday that activities of the Federal Government would be grounded if all the demands of members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities were met. Maku stated this while responding to questions from State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting in Abuja. The

  It is often said that a teacher’s reward is in heaven alone. The reason for such a belief is not far-fetched – teachers in this part of the world are some of the most poorly paid professionals, with some graduates being paid as low as N20,000 per month. In spite of this, a recent