he Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said over 500,000 spaces were not utilised in the 2018 admissions in tertiary institutions in Nigeria. The Board disclosed this in its weekly bulletin which was made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday, in Abuja. NAN reports that the statistics by the Board
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The Government of Oyo State has announced that it was pleased to discover that measures taken thus far in the implementation of the free education policy have started yielding fruits. A statement by the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Seyi Makinde, Mr. Taiwo Adisa, made available to newsmen on Monday, indicated that the huge number
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The biggest goal of this work was to be louder than the aggressor because sexual harassment is very loud. I wanted it to be silenced. BBC journalist, Kiki Mordi, has told SaharaReportersthat she had received subtle threats since her widely applauded undercover investigation into sexual harassment of female students by male lecturers at the University of Lagos
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The union had met on several occasions to make the management do the right thing but the school authorities had refused to reverse its harsh policy on their welfare. ecturers at the Adeyemi College of Education in Ondo State on Monday embarked on a strike action over some unfulfilled promises by the management of the
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A lecturer at the University of Lagos has been caught on camera making sexual demands to offer admission to a ‘student’. The lecturer was exposed in a 13 minutes video by BBC Africa where an undercover journalist, Kiki Mordi, disguised as a 17-year-old admission seeker. The investigation is part of a broader one that uncovers the sex
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Nigerian parents will need to do a rethink quickly if it is really worthwhile spending millions of naira to send their children to private secondary schools, as startling statistics has shown that students attending public schools are outperforming them in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination. Figures published by the National Bureau of Statistics
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The almajiri schools in the North on which former President Goodluck Jonathan spent a whopping N15 billion are waiting for the undertaker. That they are in ruins is, to put it mildly. While some of these schools have been remodeled as convention basic educational institutions, some lay waste because the pupils have returned to their old
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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has approved the use of white, shoulder-length hijab for Islamic female corp members in Nigeria. This came after several calls for the use of Hijab by Muslim clerics and groups within the country for the approval of hijab for Muslim corps members during their service year. It will be
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According to him, some of the challenges being faced by teachers in the state include the non-payment of two months consolidated salary arrears to primary school teachers, delay in payment of promotion arrears to over 40 per cent secondary school teachers, acute shortage of teachers in the state primary and secondary schools, inadequate provision of
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The Adamawa State Government has set the new retirement age for teachers handling science and English subjects in public schools at 65. Chairman of Nigerian Union of Teachers in the state, Rodney Nathan, made the announcement on Saturday in Yola, the capital, in commemoration of the 2019 World Teachers Day. Governor Ahmadu Fintiri had on
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