As dates for reopening the country are continually pushed back, virtually every aspect of life has been disrupted. Holidays, birthdays, weddings and funerals have begun to be virtualized in order for attendees to maintain social distances. It’s an inevitability the class of 2020 has no doubt been dreading for months. Here’s some consolation from Facebook: […]

Policemen, Yaba Local Council Development Area workers were among the main beneficiaries of 600 face masks produced by the University of Lagos (UNILAG) The face masks, made from local fabric by the Home Economics unit of the university’s Department of Science and Technology Education were donated to policemen at Bariga and Sabo police stations, which

The world is not the same. The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has disrupted everything – education inclusive. The whole of the second term holidays for the 2019/2020 academic session was spent observing the lockdown put in place by the Federal Government to check the spread of the virus. As schools cannot resume yet physically, virtual learning

Parents can now heave a sigh of relief over data cost for e-learning as the Federal Ministry of Education (FME) has partnered two e-learning platforms to provide data-free access to educational content to primary and secondary school pupils forced to stay home because of the pandemic. The websites, schoolgate.ng and mobileclassroom.com.ng can be accessed data-free

Some 270, final year and postgraduate students have been mailed reading resources for research methodology to aid their preparation for project writing amid the lockdown. Mr. Ibraheem Kanmi, founder of Cashcow Group, announced the largesse on his twitter handle, calling on the students to send their email addresses to receive the materials. He told The

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has rejected the plan for online resumption of the 2019/2020 third term by private school owners in the territory. FCTA also urged parents and guardians to ignore the purported resumption by the private school owners. In a statement on Tuesday afternoon, the acting Education Secretary for FCT, Umar Marafa,

Prof. Segun Ajiboye, the Registrar of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), says Africa must develop infrastructure to integrate technology into learning following lessons learnt from the COVID-19 experience. Ajiboye stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Tuesday while speaking on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic

Africa’s Sahara may have been ‘the most dangerous place in the history of planet Earth’, a palaeontological study has concluded. A team of international researchers found that what is today the famous desert region was home to ‘ferocious predators’ around 100 million years ago. At this time, the Sahara was a vast river system that

There is no date yet for schools in the country to resume despite the announcement by President Muhammadu Buhari, on a gradual lockdown relaxation on the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Lagos and Ogun States, the Federal Government has said. The government also said that the West African Examinations Council has not cancelled its external exams

The National Universities Commission has said that the North-East and North-West regions have only five private universities of the total 79 presently in the country. The NUC Executive Secretary, Prof Abubakar Rasheed, said this in Abuja when he received the Bishop, Sokoto Diocese of the Catholic Church, Matthew Kukah, in his office. Kukah visited the