The Lagos State Government has been urged to give soft loans to operators of private schools as palliatives to cushion the effects of the lockdown occasioned by the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic. The proprietor of Fidel Madonna College of Excellence, Iba New Site, Ojo, Lagos, Mr. Fidel Morah, made the plea on Sunday in a […]

The vice-chancellor of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources (FUPRE), Effurun, Delta State, Prof. Rim-Rukeh Akpofure, has said the university under his watch would not tolerate sex and money for grades by lecturers and students. Akpofure, who formally took over on Monday as the vice-chancellor of the university warned lecturers and students to stay clear

Some members of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, Kaduna State chapter, now use the WhatsApp platform to keep students engaged while on coronavirus lockdown at home. The Secretary of the association, Mr Philip Iorhena, made this disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna on Tuesday. Iorhena

By Philip Obaji Jr. As 16-year-old Miriam* stepped out of her tent to fetch water near the Madinatu Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camp in Nigeria’s northeastern Borno state in January last year, a middle-aged woman she knew as “Aunty Kiki” approached her. She asked Miriam if she was interested in moving to the city of

The Federal Government on Monday announced that it would soon commence the disinfection and decontamination of schools across the country. Minister of Environment, Muhammad Mahmood, disclosed this at the Presidential Task Force briefing on COVID-19 in Abuja. He said the Federal Ministry of Environment would get the data of schools nationwide from the Federal Ministry

The management of Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), Lagos have announced that there would be a partial resumption of duty begining Monday, May 4, 2020.. This follows the presidential directive to ease and gradually phase out the lockdown measures in order to reduce the spread of Coronavirus pandemic. A release by the institution’s Deputy Registrar

Sequel to the Covid -19 pandemic and the directive from the Federal Ministry of Education for Universities to resume academic activities with the use of appropriate E- learning platforms; the management of the University have approved the use of this methodology for her academic activities. The revolutionary development in the field of information technology and

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has returned N3.5 billion to the Federation Account from the excess generated from its operations during the conduct of 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The board said it had earlier returned N3.5b to the government following the sales of ePINs to UTME candidates, bringing the total remittances this year