EDUCATION

General Babangida plans scholarship to immortalize late wife, Maryam

Daily Dispatch November 5, 2017

Former Nigerian Military President, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida (rtd.), has concluded plans to establish a scholarship programme at all levels of the Nigerian school system in memory of his late wife, Maryam Babangida. Babangida made the disclosure in his address at the Inaugural Annual Memorial

EDUCATION

30 schools to benefit from Skye Bank’s Financial Literacy Campaign

Daily Dispatch October 31, 2017

The Chief Executive Officer of Skye Bank Plc, Tokunbo Abiru, has unveiled the Bank’s plans to take financial literacy campaign to 30 schools in the country to mark this year’s World Savings Day. Abiru made this known while addressing pupils of Seed of Life Schools, Lebanon Ibadan, Oyo State, adopted by Skye Bank on Tuesday. […]

EDUCATION

El-rufai to labour: No amount of threat can stop us from sacking 22, 000 teachers

Daily Dispatch October 31, 2017

The governor of Kaduna state, Mallam Nasir El Rufai, has vowed that no amount of threat from labour union would make his government back down from sacking the 22,000 teachers who failed competence tests and replace them with 25,000 new qualified ones. In a live interview with radio stations in Kaduna, Governor El Rufai said […]

EDUCATION

Borno govt promotes 3,000 teachers

Daily Dispatch October 29, 2017

The Borno Government on Sunday said it had promoted 3,000 teachers in an effort to improve teachers’ welfare and transform its education sector. Alhaji Kaka-Ali Abba, the Education Secretary, Maiduguri Municipal Council, said this in an interview in Maiduguri on Sunday. Abba said that the state government approved the promotion of teaching and non-teaching staff […]

EDUCATION

NUC approves Gombe State University of Science and Technology

Daily Dispatch October 26, 2017

The National Universities Commission, NUC, has approved the Gombe State University of Science and Technology as the 154th university in Nigeria. The approval for the Gombe State-owned institution was granted on Thursday in Abuja. The Executive Secretary of NUC, Abubakar Rasheed, announced the approval during a meeting with the governor of the state, Ibrahim Dankwambo, […]

EDUCATION

Inside Lagos public school… students sit on tyre-chairs, desks

Daily Dispatch October 25, 2017

Inspite of N92.445 billion budgeted by Lagos state government for education in 2017, scores of students in Oke-Odo Junior college in Abule-Egba, Agbado-Oke Odo Local Council Development Area (LCDA), still receive lessons under unconducive learning environment, the situation which had resulted to public enrage after circulated picture showed how students made use of tyres