EDUCATION

Obaseki hosts, celebrates victorious Edo contingent in 2018 NPDC/SEPLAT PEARLS competition

Daily Dispatch December 19, 2018

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has celebrated students of Presentation National High School and University Preparatory Secondary School (UPSS), who emerged first and third, respectively, in the 2018 NPDC/SEPLAT Promoting Exception and Respectable Leaders (PEARLS) Quiz competition.

EDUCATION

Breaking: SSANIP announces plan to embark on nationwide strike

Daily Dispatch December 19, 2018

Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIP) has given the Federal government three weeks ultimatum within which to resume ‘re-negotiation’ with its national executive to avert nationwide industrial action by its members. SSANIP, according to a release made available to journalists in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital, Adebanjo Ogunsipe, said the resolution

EDUCATION

Adeleke faces fresh charges on exam fraud

Daily Dispatch December 18, 2018

The Federal Government has re-arraigned Sen. Ademola Adeleke on a seven-count amended charge on examination malpractice. The serving senator was the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the Sept. 22, 2018 Osun governorship election which he lost. Adeleke and four other defendants were first arraigned on a four-count charge before Justice Edward

EDUCATION

Ekiti, Edo, Kano three other states to benefit from World Bank $200m Technical Education Fund

Daily Dispatch December 18, 2018

Six states in Nigeria; Ekiti, Edo, Abia, Kano, Gombe and Benue States have been selected from each of the six geo-political zones in Nigeria to benefit from the $200 million World Bank collaboration with the Federal Government The project is expected to rapidly develop skill capacities in the technical and vocational education sector in Nigeria […]

EDUCATION

Benue SUBEB chairman vows to report defaulting contractors to EFCC

Daily Dispatch December 18, 2018

The Chairman, State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) in Benue, Dr Philip Tachin, has threatened to drag some contractors who were foot-dragging on their jobs before the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) by December. Tachin, in an interview with newsmen on Tuesday in Makurdi, said that contracts for the rehabilitation of schools were awarded […]

EDUCATION

Breaking: ‘I am guilty,’ OAU sex-for-marks lecturer, Akindele changes plea

Daily Dispatch December 17, 2018

Prof. Richard Iyiola Akindele, a former lecturer in Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife dragged to court for demanding sex to pass one of his students, Monica Osagie, on Monday changed his plea from ‘not guilty’ to ‘guilty.’ The prosecutor, Mr. Shogunle Adenekan said all parties in the matter have reach plea bargain and pleaded for […]