EDUCATION

NSCDC to educate students on addressing security threats

Daily Dispatch January 6, 2024

The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has concluded plans to educate and enlighten school children on identifying potential threats and criminal elements that can cause them any harm within and outside their school premises. The new Commander of the National Safe School Response

EDUCATION

NUC, run denounce list of fake Professors in Nigerian Universities

Daily Dispatch January 6, 2024

The National Universities Commission (NUC), has denounced the list of fake professors in some Nigerian Universities being circulated in the media by some mischief makers as reportedly published by a Lagos-based electronic media as untrue and could not have emanated from the apex regulatory educational body without due consultation with their accredited universities.

EDUCATION

CBT WASSCE will cause mass failure in the north – Arewa Youths

Daily Dispatch January 6, 2024

The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum has called for the cancellation of the proposed computer-based test format in the forthcoming West African Senior School Certificate Examinations in the country. According to the forum, such a mode of examination, if allowed, will result in mass failure for students, particularly in rural areas of northern states where computer skills

EDUCATION

The University Degree Saga: Changing The Nigeria Academic Narrative

Daily Dispatch January 5, 2024

By Olutayo Irantiola The unfolding University degree saga in Nigeria has brought to the fore the need for our country to look inward and strengthen our academic heritage. It is pretty unfortunate where we have found ourselves as a country. I am not a beneficiary of the heydays when university students each chicken on Sundays, […]

EDUCATION

50% of pupils in Enugu State cannot read – SSG lament

Daily Dispatch January 5, 2024

The Secretary to the Enugu State Government (SSG), Prof. Chidiebere Onyia, says 50 per cent of pupils in the state can neither read in English nor solve simple mathematics questions. Onyia stated this while delivering a keynote address titled, “Smart Basic Education and the Future of Africa” at the quadrennial convention of the Old Boys Association […]

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FUNAAB secures top spot as Best University of Agriculture in Africa

Daily Dispatch January 3, 2024

According to the latest Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings (WUR) for 2024, the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta (FUNAAB) has emerged the best University of Agriculture on the African continent and 7th position globally. The 2024 WUR utilised the new 3.0 methodology, evaluating 2,671 entries from 1,906 universities across 108 countries and