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Ebola Fears: Teachers threaten strike over September 22 resumption date

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Nigerian teachers have threatened to go on strike over the government’s plans to re-open schools across the country on September 22 amid claims that the authorities are yet to put in place measures to protect its members and pupils from the Ebola virus disease (EVD). Last month, education minister Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, instructed all public

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Cool: 120 Nigerian teachers get UNESCO, Microsoft certifications

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In line with up-skilling Nigerian teachers for 21st Century skills , no fewer than 120 teachers of Doregos Private Academy and St Bernadette Schools have become the first schools in Africa and Nigeria to certify their teachers in UNESCO Standard, Digital Literacy and Microsoft certifications. With the certification, students will be prepared for the new

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Be wary of fake Int’l school recruitment agents, educationist warns parents

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Worried by the proliferation of swindlers who pose as recruitment agents to international schools, the Principal, Babcock University Schools, Ogba, Lagos, Elder Gabriel Fasanu,has urged parents seeking admission for their children abroad to be wary of people who often promise scholarships and other educational facilities, abroad. Speaking at the school’s maiden graduation and prize giving

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Ebola Fears: Lawmakers To Re-examine Schools’ Resumption Date

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House of Representatives has asked its Committee on Education to take another look at the issue of resumption date for private and public primary/secondary schools in the country. The directive was necessitated by growing concern among the public, especially parents and guardians of the students, following the recent decision by federal education authorities to re-open

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Ebola scare at OAU as student brought to Lagos for screening

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Academic and social activities at Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, were yesterday paralysed following a report that one of the students, who had been on admission at the university’s teaching hospital, manifested signs of Ebola Virus Disease, EVD. The management of the institution, however, said the student had been evacuated to Lagos, where she would

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2015 UTME: JAMB commences sale of application forms

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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, yesterday, announced the commencement of the sale of 2015 application form that will start the full implementation of computer based test, CBT, in the 2015 universal tertiary matriculation examination, UTME . In a press release signed by the registrar of JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde, he said candidates are

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Ebola Fears: Teachers, parents differ over postponement of schools’ resumption

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Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, parents and other stakeholders have expressed divergent views on the decision by the Federal Government to postpone the resumption date of all primary and secondary schools nationwide till October 13 following the recent outbreak of the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, in the country. While some stakeholders believe that the move

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Mass Failure in WASSCE: Lagos trains 1,000 teachers in ICT

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Lagos State Government, yesterday, said no fewer than 1,000 secondary school teachers in the state were currently undergoing training in the effective use of Information Communication Technology, ICT. Commissioner for Education, Mrs, Olayinka Oladunjoye, who disclosed this at the opening ceremony of the workshop in Lagos, noted that it was the beginning of a series

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No Going Back! JAMB set to bar candidates who are not computer literate from 2015 UTME

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The Registrar of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Professor Dibu Ojerinde has stated that students and candidates who are not computer literate will not be allowed to write any examination coordinated by the board from 2015. Ojerinde made this disclosure while speaking at the closing ceremony of the 2014 Professor Odusola Ojerinde memorial golf

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