“Nigeria needs law banning public officials’ children from schooling abroad –ASUU President, Osodeke”

People have been hoodwinked by religion. Covenant University graduated 1,000 plus students and 201 of them had first class, which is over 15 per cent. Is that possible in any university in the world, even in the best university in the world? The answer is no! And why did it happen in Covenant University? It…

July 24, 20210Comments

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Onoja, SAN donates classrooms to Community

Chief Ogwu James Onoja, SAN, Chairman and Co-Founder, Deacon Job & Mrs Omada Onoja Foundation (Djmoof), at the weekend donated a furnished block of three classrooms to Adumu Community Secondary School, Ogugu, Kogi State. At the event which took place on Saturday, 5th June, 2021, the learned Senior Advocate said the project is in…

June 7, 202116Comments

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NECO releases 2020 October/November results

By Chibuike Nwabuko The National Examination Council (NECO) on Wednesday released the results of its 2020 Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) examination it conducted throughout the country between October and November. NECO Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of NECO, Prof. Godswill Obioma announced the results on Wednesday in Abuja, said that 1,102,041 candidates passed at…

January 13, 20210Comments

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BREAKING: FG says schools resumption date not assured

The Federal Government has said the January 18th resumption date for schools to resume is not sacrosanct, hence a new date might be announced. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu gave the hint at Monday’s briefing of the Presidential Task Force on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The PTF had in December 2020 ordered schools in…

January 12, 20210Comments

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Afe Babalola: Lack Of Quality Education Cause Of Nigeria’s Insecurity

Founder of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, and Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief Afe Babalola, has blamed the growing insecurity and socio-politico-economic problems in Nigeria on lack of functional and quality education at the different levels in the country. He argued that “without quality education, a country is doomed.” The legal icon also called on…

November 30, 20209Comments

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Meet Sylvia Ulan, the Plateau girl who smashed WAEC records this year with nine A1s

The odds were stacked against Sylvia Ulan Andrew. Before she was born, her father passed on, but her mother did not give up. She came out in flying colours in the National Common Entrance, and got a scholarship from Shell Petroleum Development Company. She got admitted to Premier Academy, Lugbe, Abuja, where after six…

November 18, 20200Comments

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie voted best Women’s Prize for Fiction winner

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novel Half of a Yellow Sun has been voted the best book to have won the Women's Prize for Fiction in its 25-year history. The Nigerian-born author, who won the prize in 2007, was chosen in a public vote from a list of all 25 winners. Other past winners include Zadie Smith,…

November 18, 20200Comments

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How Nigerian Federal Scholarship Board picks ineligible candidates and drops qualified ones

At least 55 candidates selected by the Federal Scholarship Board for the 2020 BEA foreign education scholarship are not eligible to apply for the scholarship in the first place, Economic Confidential investigation reveals. To qualify for the scholarship award, an applicant must have at least 5 distinctions (A and B) in five subjects, including Mathematics…

October 10, 20200Comments

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Buhari Gives Teachers Special Salary Scale, Raises Their Service Year to 40 Years

By Funmilayo Adeyemi President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a special salary scale for Nigerian teachers while also increasing the years of service from 35 years to 40 years.Buhari, who was represented by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu made this known in Abuja during the occasion of the 2020 World Teacher’s Day.The theme of…

October 5, 20200Comments

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FG, States Lose N1.2 Trillion To 19 ASUU Strikes

By John Onah, Abuja The Federal and state Governments, proprietors of public universities in the country, may have lost a whooping N1.2 trillion to the incessant strikes embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) since the nation’s return to democracy in 1999, investigation by DAILY ASSET has revealed. The amount, according to data compiled…

October 5, 20200Comments

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