Education

Hundreds of graduating Primary Six pupils in Kano State have been promoted to Class 7. This is because they could not sit for the Common Entrance Examination to secondary school after the state government failed to organise it. The development has triggered controversy as the pupils and their parents have …

A man has put up his kidney for sale to raise money for his brother’s school fees. Felix Joel is 26 years old, but he has played the patriarch role for his family for so many years that he is at his tail end. In an exclusive interview with TUKO.co.ke’s …

Businesses, including banks and schools, opened on Monday as the sit-at-home order by the indigenous Peoples of Biafra(IPOB) eased off in Imo State one month after. Our correspondent, who monitors the situation, reports that while vehicles flooded the roads in all parts of the State, buses rendered intra city services …

The Ministry of Education on Monday assured that candidates who missed the 2021 West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) in the Southeastern region following the enforcement of sit-at-home by some secessionists, will be given another opportunity to write the examination. This was disclosed by the Permanent Secretary of the …

Ten students of Abia State University, Uturu (ABSU) have reportedly been abducted by bandits along the Ihube-ABSU Road. The abduction comes weeks after three lecturers of the institution were kidnapped by gunmen along Uturu/Isuikwuato Road. The incident, which reportedly took place between 5 pm and 6 pm on Saturday, has …

ENTRY AGE LIMIT: LAGOS DEBUNKS VIRAL REPORT ON SOCIAL MEDIA The Lagos State Ministry of Education has debunked a social media report alleging that the State Government will, from next academic session, enforce the entry age of 12 years for pupils seeking admission into Junior Secondary School (JSS1) in a …

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTP0elw87pA Without prior notice, Lagos State government agents demolish buildings with students still inside. I received a call from school Lagos state university from my course mate telling me the apartment I helped him acquiring got demolished without announcement. This was a thing of shock cause I had to …

AUTHORITIES of the Federal University of Technology, (FUTO), Owerri, have explained why the university made the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Pantami, a professor, saying the name he gave to the university was Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim before his appointment. FUTO also insisted that the appointment …

Professor Abass Olajire, a senior lecturer at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, LAUTECH, Ogbomoso, on Friday slumped and died in a mosque while observing Solatul Jum’at, Newsextra24 reports. A lecturer who confirmed his death to Siggy.ng said both staff and students from Chemistry department are currently mourning and in …

The Senate of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, has approved the removal of N20,000 late registration fee. Recall that the registration fee led to a two-day mass protest by the students which resulted in the shutting down of the institution. The Registrar of the university, Ademola Bobola, confirming the removal …