The National Examinations Council, NECO, yesterday, shifted its Basic Education Certificate Examination from May 8-10 because of the World Economic Forum Africa, WEFA. The Registrar of NECO, Prof. Promise Okpala, who stated this in an interview in Abuja, said the examination timetable had to be adjusted because of the closure of public institutions in the

A coalition of Nigerian business leaders working with the UN Special Envoy for Education, Gordon Brown, the Global Business Coalition for Education and ‘A World at School,’ has launched, a “Safe Schools Initiative” at the World Economic Forum in Nigeria in response to the growing number of attacks on the right to education, including the

Federal Government, parents and guardians have attributed the poor performance of students in the recent Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result released by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to their poor reading habit. They, however, noted that authorities should share the blame as the result was also a reflection of the country’s education