Vice President Prof Yemi Osinbajo has said that the state governments should be blamed for problems associated with Nigeria’s education sector, especially primary and secondary education. He said the large chunk of basic and secondary schools in Nigeria were state-owned while the federal government provided support to the state governments. Osinbajo spoke Tuesday in Abuja […]
… Says: ‘My credentials are verified, valid’ Steve Uzoechi An Associate Professor at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO), Engr. Dr. Michael Anumaka has petitioned the Editor-in-Chief of the Punch Nigeria Limited, Mr. Ademola Osinubi over a news publication which the lecturer considers as ‘defamatory, fictitious and malicious’. This is also as the don, […]
Atiku Abubakar, former vice-president, has explained the reason for his long absence from the country. There have been unconfirmed reports that the former presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) relocated to Dubai after he lost the 2019 election to President Muhammadu Buhari. Speaking after the PDP board of trustees (BOT) meeting on Thursday, […]
This past week was characterised with sad stories in different universities, polytechnics across Nigeria among the students. Student activist killed hours after facing LASU panel’ The Education Rights Campaign has lamented the death of a student activist, Nurudeen Alawonle, popularly known as Omomeewa, some hours after he was invited to face a disciplinary panel set […]
The University of Ibadan, Covenant University, and Obafemi Awolowo University have been ranked top in Nigeria by Webometrics in its latest rating. Analysis of the latest ranking showed that no Nigerian university was among the top 1,000 in the world. Though ranked first in Nigeria, UI rated 1,196 in the world. Private-owned covenant University, which […]
Officers of Adoff Police Station in the Iba area of Lagos have told the family of Yusuf Nurudeen Alowonle, an education rights activist who was murdered in front of Lagos State University (LASU), not to perform an autopsy on the deceased’s body. Alowonle’s murder raised controversies after it happened on Wednesday night. While some argued […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Ishaq Oloyede as Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for a second term of five years. Others reappointed by the President include Prof Abubakar Rasheed, who will serve as Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission for another five years; Hamid Bobboyi, who will serve as Executive […]
The Head of the National Office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Mr Patrick Areghan has cautioned candidates who are sitting the ongoing school-based West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) nationwide to shun all forms of malpractice. A total of 1, 576,789 candidates comprising 792,620 males (50.36 per cent) and 781,169 females (49.64 […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has charged a dean in the University of Calabar, Prof. Francisca Ime Bassey, to court over her alleged involvement in a contract fraud of ₦20.6 million. Prof. Bassey, who is the Dean and Director of the Pre-Degree Programme of the university, was arraigned on Wednesday […]
DESPITE the decay, shortage and dilapidation of infrastructure as witnessed in most public schools across the country, Nigerian Tribune checks has revealed that state governments have abandoned over N29 billion with Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC). The affected states were said to have refused to pay the requisite 50 per cent counterpart fund in order […]
