Ahmed Nigeria approves new uniform for correctional service By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The Federal Government has approved new uniform for the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) to reflect its new name. NCoS Comptroller General (CG), Mr Ja’afaru Ahmed, said this at the inauguration of the administrative block of the Correctional Staff School (CSS) on Thursday […]
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‘Education should not be sacrificed for music’
IMXB ‘Education should not be sacrificed for music’ A student of Continuing/Adult Education at the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University, Lapai (IBBUL), Abdullahi Alhassan, aka IMXB, is an upcoming Hausa hip-hop artiste. In an interview with ABDULSALAM MAHMUD, he advises student-musicians not to abandon education for music. When did you start music? My romance with music […]
Vested interests in govt are promoters of IPPIS –ASUU chairman
Prof Ogunyemi Vested interests in govt are promoters of IPPIS –Prof Ogunyemi National president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, in an exclusive interview with MOSES JOHN, speaks on the lingering issue of the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS). Over 8000 lecturers enrolled on IPPIS In the first […]
Nigerian students in US give host community NYSC experience, issue certificates
Nigerian students in US give host community NYSC experience, issue certificates By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The Nigerian students at the University of Arkansas have done what will positively project the image of Nigeria. The students have educated their host community on one of the things that bind Nigerians together namely, the National Youth Service […]
UBEC set to mop up out-of-school children
Out-of-school children UBEC set to mop up out-of-school children By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi, has said that the commission had introduced Open Schooling Programme (OSP) to mop-up out-of-school children across the 36 states of the in the country, Bobboyi stated this in Kaduna […]
UI professor identifies cause of prevailing insecurity
UI professor identifies cause of prevailing insecurity A criminologist, Professor Adeyinka Aderinto, has identified sheer negligence of social roles by youths as a major cause of ravaging insecurity. Aderinto said Nigeria’s youths have been left on the fringes by those who should nurture and cater for them, and are now fighting back. Professor Aderinto […]
Nasarawa spends N350m on school meals
Engr A.A. Sule Nasarawa spends N350m on school meals By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The Nasarawa state government says it spends N350 million annually to feed students in public secondary schools in the state. The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Hajiya Fatu Sabo, stated this in Lafia, the state captal, during the distribution of […]
NIMET commissions weather station at Nasarawa varsity
NIMET commissions weather station at Nasarawa varsity By Dominic Akpensuen Keffi The Nigerian Metheological Agency (NIMET) has constructed a weather station at Nasarawa State University, Keffi (NSUK). Commissioning the project, the Director General (DG) of the agency, Professor Sani Mashi, disclosed that the weather station project was going to be a nation-wide programme to be […]
Nigerian students in US give host community NYSC experience, issue certificates
Nigerian students in US give host community NYSC experience, issue certificates By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The Nigerian students at the University of Arkansas have done what will positively project the image of Nigeria. The students have educated their host community on one of the things that bind Nigerians together namely, the National Youth Service […]
Nigerian students in US give host community NYSC experience, issue certificates
Nigerian students in US give host community NYSC experience, issue certificates By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The Nigerian students at the University of Arkansas have done what will positively project the image of Nigeria. The students have educated their host community on one of the things that bind Nigerians together namely, the National Youth Service […]