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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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 […]
Dubious CBT centre’s licence will be revoked – JAMB registrar
Oloyede Dubious CBT centre’s licence will be revoked – JAMB registrar By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is’haq Oloyede has said that panic buying by UTME candidates and encouraged by parents encourages the extortion of candidates by unscrupulous elements, the action he says is worse […]
TETFund committees are working round the clock – Prof Darma
Prof Darma TETFund committees are working round the clock – Prof Darma By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The co-chairman and coordinator of impact assessment ad hoc committee of TETFund interventions in tertiary institutions, Nazifi Abdullahi Darma, a professor of Development Economics at the University of Abuja said the three ad hoc committees inaugurated by the […]