The Kaduna State commissioner of education, Andrew Nok, is dead. He was 55. Details of his death is still sketchy but a source at Kaduna government house said the commissioner’s death was sudden. Mr. Nok, a professor of Biochemistry, has Read more
The Kogi State government on Sunday said it would soon conduct competency test for public school teachers across the state to ensure that only capable hands teach in government-owned schools. The director general on media and publicity to the governor, Read more
For weeks there have been a controversy in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The Governor, Nasir El-rufai sacked about 20,000 teachers for failing a primary 4 competency test, and immediately put out a vacancy to recruit new teachers. There have been several Read more
Dr. Richard Paulson, a fertility doctor has said that in theory, men could attempt to become pregnant as soon as “tomorrow”, thanks to advances in uterus transplant surgeries. Paulson is the outgoing president of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, Read more
The senator, representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has criticised Governor Nasir El-Rufai over the planned sack of over 21, 000 primaryschool teachers. Mr. Sani, a critic of the governor, described the move as a ‘height of lunacy.’ Governor El-Rufai had Read more
The authorities of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile – Ife says in order to forestall total breakdown of law and order and curtail acts of brigandage among students, it has suspended all activities of the University’s Students Union until Read more
The incumbent Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academics and Research, at the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe has been appointed the university’s 12the vice-chancellor. In an exclusive interview with the university’s Deputy Registrar, Information, Mr Toyin Adebule, the decision was Read more
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday signed the bill establishing the University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun, Delta State, into law. According to a statement by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu, the President, at the brief ceremony, Read more
The number of out of school children in Sokoto, which was the highest in the country, has dropped from 69 percent in 2015 to 37 percent this year, outgoing UNICEF’s Chief of Field Office for Sokoto, Zamfara and Kebbi states, Read more
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has commended Osun State government for the prompt payment of examination fee for students in the public schools across the state. Deputy Registrar of WAEC, Dr. Olusanya Dacosta gave the commendation during the 2017 Read more