The National Universities Commission, NUC, has directed the closure of all universities and inter-university centres between February 22nd and March 14. NUC said there would be no academic activities during the shutdown. The announcement was contained in a statement signed by the Deputy ...

By  Deborah Tolu-Kolawole DEBORAH TOLU-KOLAWOLE writes on the poor learning conditions at the Local Education Authority School in Zone 9, Lugbe, Abuja, where primary school pupils close at 12pm to make room for secondary pupils to resume For the pupils at the Local Education Authority School ...

Student of Federal Polytechnic Nekede Sharon Ogechi Okoroafor has hired a lawyer who will defend her after her reckless statement went viral on social media. The lawyer who has appealed to the management of the institution, has said that their client never meant to defame the character,standard ...

By Joseph Erunke THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, announced yesterday that from January, 31,2023, no candidate would be registered without the provision of an email address. JAMB explained in a statement released through its Head, Public Affairs and Protocol,Dr Fabian ...

Federal Polytechnic Nekede in Imo State has commenced investigation into the identity of a female student who gloated on TikTok. The young woman boasted on the social media platform that she graduated with the help of God and her private organ. A statement on Monday by the Registrar, Eucharia ...

By  Fatteh Hamid A direct-entry student of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, Hafsat Ibrahim, hurriedly prepared for a test she had for 10 am. At 9 am, she left her house at Danraka, Zaria, Kaduna, however, when she was almost entering the school gate, a fellow student reminded her ...

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has appealed to President Muhammadu Buhari to approve the payment of all withheld salaries of university workers in the country. NLC President, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, made the appeal in a resolution reached at the end of the National Administrative Council (NAC) of the ...

Omolabake Fasogbon Electronic payment platform, Remita has said that it has commenced sale of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) ePINs to candidates seeking admission into higher institutions across Nigeria. The firm also promised mouth-watering commission to agents ...

By  Deborah Tolu-Kolawole Nigerians and other immigrant students in the United Kingdom currently face a high risk deportation after completion of their studies following a row between UK Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, and the Department of Education. According to The Daily Mail, Braverman ...

By  Bola Bamigbola The leadership of a group of 1,500 teachers recruited by the immediate past administration in Osun State, has pleaded with the state Governor, Ademola Adeleke, to review his order that nullified their appointments. The affected teachers also said four out of those recruited ...

The National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, is preparing to introduce E-Naira to the scheme. The NYSC will be partnering with the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN on the use of the internet money for corps members. The platform would offer the scheme the ease of payments at no risk. CBN Deputy ...

The Lagos State University, LASU, has released fifteen new dress codes considered indecent for its students on campus. The management also ordered lecturers to ensure that no students are allowed into the classrooms when indecently dressed. In a statement issued by the interim Head of the ...

Aston University and University of Central Lancashire in partnership with ONCAMPUS based in the UK will be having a 4-city tour in Nigeria. The tour aimed at prospective students for the September 2023 start is slated to hold between the 24th and 30th January, 2023 in Benin, Abuja, Ibadan and ...

Former Nigeria’s president, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo created a comical scene on Monday when he dressed and acted like the senior prefect of a secondary school when he and other old students of the Baptist Boys High School, BBHS, Abeokuta, Ogun State, embarked on a road walk to commemorate the ...

By Johnbosco Agbakwuru Fresh strike is looming in the public universities over the alleged inability of the Federal Government to conclude re-negotiations with the university-based unions on the 2009 agreement. This came as the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, ...

The management of the University of Ilorin has said it is considering the possibility of reviving the virtual lecture option, especially for large classes to reduce the necessity of having large number of students on the road at peak periods. The development, according to THISDAY checks, might ...

By  Grace Edema The Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University of Science and Technology, Prof. Olumuyiwa Odusanya, has said the institution will be admitting 1,850 pioneer students into its 37 approved programmes. Speaking on Tuesday at a press briefing, Odusanya explained that the university ...

By Adesina Wahab In what promises to be the largest Education Fair in 2023, heads and senior leaders from more than 20 United Kingdom boarding schools are visiting Lagos this January to “learn what parents are looking for” and develop “partnerships with schools”. The event tagged,”UK Boarding ...

The Polytechnic Ibadan in Oyo State said it has suspended the Students Union Government (SUG) executives of the institution. The Institution also said it has postponed the first semester examinations in the institution. The institution made these disclosures on Monday. DAILY POST reports ...

Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom has directed the State Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB to reconstruct a primary school at Tse-Tseen, Saghev burnt down during herdsmen attacks on the community. Several primary schools have either been burnt down or abandoned following herders attacks on ...

PREMIUM TIMES visited schools that the state government claimed to have rehabilitated and found decrepit and inadequate facilities. Governor Dapo Abiodun said last year that over 400 primary and secondary schools have been renovated in Ogun State under his administration. However, when ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked the federal government to increase the Education Tax from the current 2.5 per cent to 10 per cent to enable Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to mobilise more funds to adequately address the decay and challenges confronting the ...

By  Deborah Tolu-Kolawole Data obtained from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, the agency responsible for the regulation of admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria revealed that out of over 1,256,494 candidates who applied for Medicine-related programmes in Nigerian public ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has accused the Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, of deception by asking the union to call off its eight-month-old strike in October with a written promise that the government would, without delay, offset in full the ...

By  Deborah Tolu-Kolawole The National Association of Nigerian Students has faulted the recent decisions of some federal universities to increase registration and tuition fees for students. The association has therefore set up a committee saddled with the responsibility of negotiating with ...

By  Deborah Tolu-Kolawole The National President of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics, Dr Anderson Ezeibe, has described the tertiary education system in Nigeria as one that cannot stand global competitiveness. Ezeibe, who spoke in an interview with our correspondent in Abuja on ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that it would  commencec registration for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) from Saturday, 14th January, to Tuesday, 14th February 2023. The board, at the end of its management meeting held yesterday, ...

By  Deborah Tolu-Kolawole THE Federal Government has directed polytechnics, monotechnics and other allied institutions to stop awarding degrees. The National Board for Technical Education conveyed the government’s decision to heads of the affected institutions in a circular marked ...

By  Bola Bamigbola Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Tuesday awarded scholarships to 50 students selected from those that participated in the Christmas party he hosted for children in his palace. While receiving the children drawn from primary and secondary schools, as well as schools for ...

Mixed reactions have continued to trail the recent delisting of some secondary schools in Oyo State by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). Information made available revealed that no fewer than fifty (50) secondary schools in Oyo State have been delisted by the examination body. The ...

There is a palpable fear of a fresh round of strikes in Nigerian public universities as the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, holds its National Executive Council (NEC) meeting in Calabar, Cross River State. DAILY POST learnt that the meeting started yesterday, Saturday, November 3, and ...

The federal government has approved a new National Language Policy which makes mother tongue a compulsory medium of instruction for public primary school pupils.The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this on Nov. 30, while briefing reporters on the outcome of the Federal Executive ...

Fresh revelations have indicated that there is no end in sight to resolving the intractable dispute between members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal Government. DAILY POST reports that the Federal Government’s hard stance on “no work, no pay policy” could fuel ...

The federal government has launched the first phase of a teacher training programme to reintroduce history in the basic education curriculum.The development was announced on Thursday at an inauguration ceremony held in Abuja.History was removed from the basic school curriculum during the 2009/2010 ...

The proposed legislation titled, ‘Bill for an Act to provide for easy access to higher education for Nigerians through interest-free loans from the Nigerian Education Bank, established in this Act with a view to providing education for all Nigerians and for other purposes connected thereto.’The ...

  Covenant University has sacked a member of staff accused of sexual assault. A circulating chat shows insiders narrating how some employees coerce students into having sex. Those mentioned include hall monitors, school clinic workers, and security personnel. “The staff in Covenant University ...

In Nigeria today, there are many underaged students in schools as today's parents seems to be in a hurry to see their children graduate from primary school very early, move into secondary school, university and be a graduate in no time. It has been observed that in most cases children that are not ...

A university don, Professor Jacob Olayiwola Aweda, has recommended a university-industry relationship that will support research. Delivering the 217th Inaugural Lecture of the University of Ilorin, on Thursday, titled “Engineering Technology and Technology of Manipulation of Process Parameters”, ...

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), has ranked Lagos as the most friendly State to the scheme. Chairman of the NYSC National Governing Board, Ambassador Fatima Balla Abubakar, said Lagos remained the only state across the federation supporting the scheme with quarterly subvention to keep ...

The Lagos State Commissioner for Health, Prof Akin Abayomi, said at least 60 per cent of the primary healthcare centres in the state are not in very desirable state. Abayomi revealed this on Saturday on his Instagram handle @profakinabayomi. The commissioner, however, said the state government ...

Nafiu Lukman Abiodun, a Nigerian academic staff at the Kabale University in Uganda, has been fired. He was the Head, Department of Economics and Statistics in the Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences. Abiodun, formerly the Director of Research, was found guilty of sexual harassment, ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced that it will embark on a one-day nationwide protest rally over the implementation by the Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government of a “no-work, no-pay” policy for lecturers in the country.Naija News gathered that the nationwide protest ...

Wife of Lagos State Governor, Dr. Ibijoke Sanwo-olu, yesterday gave out laptops, tablets and other educational materials to school children from the 36 states of the country. The First Lady presented the gifts to the selected school children who were participating in the ongoing National Festival ...

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has given the state scholarship board the green light to disburse scholarships to eligible students. The Director General, Cross River Scholarship Board, Comrade Nuela Tessy Anyin disclosed the development in Calabar while fielding reporters’ questions. ...

So I have a friend that has been teaching me some Twi (the most spoken language in Ghana). I noticed there were some choices in spelling conventions I thought were less than optimal. For example, "r" in the middle of words is usually skipped over. So "biribiara" becomes "biibiaa" when spoken. In ...

Hello, I'm trying to learn pidgin at the moment, I'm hoping to learn it first then move up to languages like Yoruba and Hausa. I'm looking for resources to help me learn pidgin, I already read a book on it and I don't need a pidgin dictionary. Rather are there good movies, musicians (besides the ...

I’ve checked and there’s no option for a Yoruba keyboard on settings. Does anyone know of anything I could download to give me one? or any language which uses similar accents, specifically the one commonly underneath letters like ‘s’, ‘o’, etc. thanks!

What does the word makwa mean in Igbo? Flavor used the word in the chorus of his song “Levels” when he says “Ị makwa ònye ị wụ?”.

Civil society groups in Nigeria have reacted to the resolution of the 66th ministerial session of the National Council on Education (NCE) held on November 3, 2022. The organizations said they received with disappointment, news of the directive by the Minister for Education, Adamu Adamu, to the ...

ABUJA – THE Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU,ended its National Executive Committee, NEC meeting late Monday (yesterday), with a resolution not to embark on another strike action following the payment of half salaries to members by the federal government.Rather,the union, according to ...