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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Chinese police are hunting a violent teacher who beat four terrified children with a textbook in his office. The pupils, the eldest of whom is just seven, were rushed to hospital after being found cowering and covered in blood by another member of staff at the school in Ankang in Shaanxi province. The art teacher,
The Lagos State government says all is set for schools’ resumption on September 22. The government, in a statement issued yesterday, explained its support for the date announced by the Federal Government. The statement reads: “Concerning the resumption of all public and private nursery, primary and secondary schools for the 2014/2015 session, Lagos State Government
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Dear young friends, sure we are doing well today. For me, I am doing splendid. It has been a very busy season for me travelling the length and breadth of this great nation in pursuit of your cause, preaching the Gospel According to Child Protection. Before you say, ‘but I am not a child,’ permit
The National Head of the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, office in Nigeria, Mr. Charles Egurudu, has said the body is saddened by the failure of candidates that write its examinations. Egurudu, who spoke yesterday at the award-giving ceremony to the best three Benue State schools in the 2011 WAEC examinations, in Makurdi, insisted that
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The World Health Organisation, WHO, and Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State have warned the Federal Government on its decision that primary and secondary schools across the country should resume academic activities on 22 September, 2014. Speaking during a courtesy visit to Lagos State Governor, Babatunde Fashola, at the State House in Alausa on Thursday, 11 September, 2014, WHO Country Representative
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Controversy generated by case of an Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, female student, who was rumoured to have contracted Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) was, on Thursday, finally laid to rest, as the vice chancellor of the institution, Professor Bamitale Omole, disclosed that confirmatory test proved she was negative. Addressing a press conference, on Thurday in
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