Niger has shut all schools in the region around the capital Niamey and launched a campaign to vaccinate children aged 2 to 15 in an effort to halt a meningitis outbreak that has killed at least 85 since January. Schools will be closed from Wednesday until Monday next week, the government said in a statement,
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Vice President-elect, Professor Yemi Osinbajo yesterday said teachers in the country’s public schools will get free tertiary education when the next administration is sworn in on May 29, this year. Osinbajo disclosed this during a consultative meeting with Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State and members of Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT in Ikeja. The
Just as it’s been done in advanced countries, the Chairman, Board of Governors of Olashore International School, Prince Bimbo Olashore, has unfolded plans to deploy iPads in classrooms. Speaking at the 2015 Apple iPad Summit organised by Core Group Africa in Johannesburg, South Africa, Olashore said that Nigeria cannot also wait for technology transfer any
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The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has disclosed, it’s high time secondary school students started preparing to write the West African Senior School Certificate Examinations, WASSCE, through Computer Based Test, CBT. This came as the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Liberia, Mr Augustine Ngafuan urged WAEC to introduce Group-Work in classroom into their marking
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The twenty-one Chibok schoogirls who escaped when Boko Haram abducted hundreds of them on 14 April last year are back in class at the American University of Nigeria in the north-eastern Adamawa State. Over 200 others have remained in captivity almost one year after they were taken hostage. Among those who have returned to school,
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This is exactly how far some parents would go to ensure their children excel in school exams. Pictures of parents of secondary school students scaling the wall of a school building and hanging from windows to hand cheat sheets to their children have gone viral in India. Cheating in school tests is an old Indian
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Two candidates that sat, weekend, for the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME computer base test have been arrested by the security agents for alleged malpractices during the test. The candidates were arrested at Esa-Oke, in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State. The candidates were alleged to have conspired with one Mr. Adebayo a.k.a
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Over a million candidates are supposed to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam beginning from March 9th and just few days to the commencement of the exam, there has been many protests in different states across the country. On March 3, 2015, we reported that police arrested 50 protesting JAMB candidates in Benue. Unfortunately,
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said that the 2015 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examinations, UTME, will commence next week March 9, across the country. Its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Fabian Benjamin, told Vanguard, yesterday: “All the logistics for the examination have been put in place and the examination will start on March
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The Benue Police Command on Monday arrested 50 candidates of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for violent protests and stoning of security officials. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Hyacinth Dagala, said the police intervened to prevent breakdown of law and order when the candidates started throwing stones at JAMB officials. According
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