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The Registrar/Chief Executive of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, has said there is no going back on the use of Computer Based Test, CBT, by JAMB’s candidates with effect from next year. The registrar, who was answering questions from journalists in Minna, Niger State, yesterday, said the board had been sensitising […]
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The Senate yesterday advised both private and government schools to put in place precautionary measures to curtail the spread of Ebola as schools resume next week. It also concurred that enough efforts had been made for resumption of schools. The Senate equally urged the Economic Community of West African States, ECOWAS, and the African Union,
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An Improvised Explosive Device, IED, thrown into a lecture hall at the Federal College of Education, Kano, yesterday, claimed the lives of 15 students while 34 others sustained injuries. According to an eyewitness, lecture was going on when two terrorists walked in and threw two objects that exploded within seconds. The blast was accompanied by
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On the night of April 14, 2014, hundreds of schoolgirls at the Chibok boarding school in northeastern Nigeria awoke to the sound of gunfire. They saw men in camouflage approaching and thought soldiers were coming to save them from a militant attack. Instead, more than 270 of the schoolgirls found themselves in the clutches of
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As the new resumption date by the Federal Government for the nation’s public and private schools continues to generate controversy, the National Association Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPS, in Bauchi State has thrown its weight behind the new resumption date, saying schools should adopt preventive measures against the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, instead keeping students
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Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Tuesday , directed it members to ignore the 22nd of September, 2014, resumption of primary and secondary schools in Nigeria. National President of NUT, Comrade Micheal Olukoya, gave the directive while briefing journalists in Abuja. He said the teachers should only resume if the Federal Government sufficiently trained and provide
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Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, on Monday, disclosed that the results of April 2014 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) of the abducted Chibok schoolgirls is ready. The minister, who disclosed this at a stakeholders’ meeting, organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Education, over the Federal Government’s directive that schools resume on September
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THE Nigeria Medical Association, NMA, yesterday, made a U-turn as president of the group, Dr. Kayode Obembe, told lawmakers and other stakeholders that the resumption date of September 22 for schools as scheduled by Federal Government was okay. The NMA had previously argued that schools should not be re-opened until all those under surveillance for
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Activities at the office of the Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, were yesterday paralyzed by students of Lagos State University External System, LASUES, over alleged fraudulent practices by the school authorities and mass failure by the students This came barely a month after Fashola reversed the tuition fee for the students to N25,000. However, the
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The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. AbduGaniyu Ambali, says all students will be screened for the Ebola Virus Disease before entering the campus. Ambali stated this on Monday while unveiling preventive kits worth N1.2 million at the university’s health centre. “The procurement of the anti-Ebola kits is part of the university’s preparedness to
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