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Students writing SSCE s NECO: 2019 SSCE records success in Maths, English By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The acting registrar and chief executive officer of National Examinations Council (NECO), Mr Abubakar Gana, announcing the results of 2019 SSCE at NECO headquarters in Minna, Niger state, said the number of candidates who made five credits and […]

Adamu, Nwajiuba back to duty in education ministry By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The minister of education in the first term of President Muhammadu Buhari administration, Mallam Adamu Adamu, with the new minister of state for education, Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, has resumed duty at his former post after the ministerial inauguration ceremony Wednesday. The ministers, […]

Prof  Olayinka Prof Olayinka  By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The management  of the University of Ibadan, (UI) has announced that armed policemen from Oyo State Police Command have been engaged to partner Campus Security Service in patrolling the university community with immediate effect. The school made this announcement in a circular signed by its vice […]

Prof Bogoro, TETFund boss   Include private varsities in TETFund intervention, VC appeals to FG By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja The vice chancellor of Evangel University, Okpoto in Ebonyi state, Professor Idika Kalu, has appealed to the federal government to include private universities in the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) intervention. Kalu made the appeal […]

Oloyede On JAMB registrar’s administrative acumen  In the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has put a number of measures to curtail fraud in the processes. UJI ABDULLAHI ILIYASU reports that apart from curtailing fraud, the registrar takes into consideration the welfare of his staff. Staff canteen In order […]

(From left) Adamu, Baffa, Bogoro Will TETFund’s new direction stand? In March this year, the executive secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Professor Elias Suleiman Bogoro said Nigerian researchers had no cause to be poor because the agency would pay more attention to research and development in the nation’s higher institutions of learning.  UJI […]

  Bello   Kogi develops curriculum for local languages By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja Fearing that the indigenous languages are at the risk of going extinct, Kogi state government has approved a curriculum for the teaching and learning of Igala and Ebira languages, according to kogireport. This was as the state hosted the 45th annual […]

Apegba  Oral literature preserves history, upholds morals – don By ABDULSALAM Mahmud A Professor of Oral and Comparative Literature, Ker Apegba, has delivered the 14th inaugural lecture of the Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida University Lapai (IBBUL), in Niger State, where he maintained that oral literature has the capacity not to only entertain and educate, but also […]

Bogoro TETFund inaugurates technical advisory group on book development By Uji abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro, has inaugurated technical Advisory Group (TAG) to ensure publishing of quality indigenous academic textbooks in Nigeria’s tertiary institutions August 8 at Fraser Suites, Abuja. The event which took place in […]

Abdulkareem Suleiman Ladan helping his wounded brother off  the reception for medical attention Nasarawa SSG reception: Soldier flogs, inflicts injury on invited guest By Uji Abdullahi Iliyasu Abuja  One of the soldiers manning the entrance gate of the Muhammadu Buhari Multipurpose  Hall of the Federal Polytechnic, Nasarawa, where the reception in honour of the newly […]