EDUCATION

No Date Fixed For Full Schools’ Resumption —FG ……Says 78 Private Varsities Ready To Resume

Daily Dispatch August 25, 2020

The Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, said no date has been fixed yet for full schools’ resumption even though the Federal Government had continued to engage stakeholders. Nwajiuba said this during the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Monday in

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Students preparing for exams abducted inside Kaduna school

Daily Dispatch August 24, 2020

Some students of Prince Academy in Chikun local government area of Kaduna state have been abducted. The students who were preparing for their examination were abducted on Monday morning. The gunmen were said to have first raided houses in Damba-Kasaya community in Chikun LGA before heading to the school. Bawa Wakili, a resident of the […]

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Killings: FG warns parents against sending children to schools in Northern Cyprus

Daily Dispatch August 24, 2020

The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM) has warned Nigerian parents against sending their children to universities in Northern Cyprus over the incessant and mysterious killing of Nigerians. Ms. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO of the commission, who gave the warning on Monday, said that it was too risky to send children to the schools there as hundreds […]

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Breaking: UNILAG Senate In A Meeting To Select Acting VC

Daily Dispatch August 24, 2020

The Senate of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, is currently meeting at the Main Auditorium of the university to choose an acting Vice Chancellor for the institution. The meeting is holding under tight security provided by policemen from Sabo Division of the Nigeria Police, and security men from the institution.

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Tertiary institutions will reopen very soon, says minister

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2020

Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, the minister of state for education, says tertiary institutions in-country will reopen “very soon”. Speaking during a programme that aired on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA) on Saturday, Nwajiuba said the federal government is also working to end the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) before schools reopen.

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14 million Nigerian children are out of school – Obasanjo

Daily Dispatch August 22, 2020

Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday declared that over 14 million Nigerian children that should be in school are not in school, and thereby deprived of education. Obasanjo made this known in Lagos at the virtual 2020 Fellowship Graduation Ceremony of the second cohort of “Teach for Nigeria Fellows”. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) […]