Category: News

  TRCN refutes renewal of teachers’ certificate claims By Uji A. Iliyasu Abuja  Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, (TRCN) has refuted claims by the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) that the council was asking people holding its certificates to rewrite professional qualifying examination. Registrar of TRCN, Prof Josiah Ajiboye, Saturday in a statement in […]

New teacher programme gets $10.4m support By Uji A. Iliyasu Abuja  The Federal Government has launched a new teacher development programme, known  as Teacher Internship Scheme (TIS), designed to support states in the emergence of a new generation of teachers with skills and knowledge required to excel in the digital age and help in the […]

TETFund grants 12 lecturers N761.4m to study in France  By Uji A Iliyasu Abuja The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has awarded scholarship to 12 Nigerian lecturers to undertake doctoral degree programmes in science-related fields in France. Executive Secretary of TETFund Sonny Echono, who made this known at a pre-departure briefing of the beneficiaries on […]

Shaibu vows to clinch PDP Guber ticket despite Obaseki’s opposition  Editor   Edo State Deputy Governor, Philip Shaibu, expressed confidence in securing the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) governorship ticket ahead of the election. He disclosed this during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Thursday amid the stiff opposition he is getting from his principal, […]

Rivers guber: Tonye Cole Accepts Supreme Court Verdict, pledges loyalty to Fubara Editor The governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the 2023 election, Tonye Cole, has accepted the decision of the Supreme Court which dismissed his legal challenge against the emergence of Sim Fubara as governor. Mr Cole made this known via a video […]

Sokoto: Where Supreme Court echoes the people’s wish By Lawal Jet Kaugama  The people of Sokoto state have heived a sigh of relief now that the highest court in the land has echoed the will of the people of Sokoto State. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) had asked the Supreme Court to set aside the […]

FG approves N5.1bn for  185 TETFund research grants By Uji A. Iliyasu Abuja The Federal Government has approved the sum of N5,128,180,623.63 for the funding of 185 successful research proposals under the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund’s) National Research Fund (NRF) 2023 Grant Cycle. The approval which was conveyed by the Minister of Education, Prof. […]

FG approves N683.43bn for public Tertiary institutions in 2024 By Uji A. Iliyasu Abuja President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the sum of N683,429,268,402.64 billion as the 2024 intervention funds for public tertiary institutions of learning in the country. The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) Sonny Echono, disclosed this Friday during the […]

    Bauchi seeks TETFund’s intervention to uplift  it’s higher schools By Uji A. Iliyasu Abuja Bauchi State Government has solicited the support of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund) for its higher institutions of learning  to train technical manpower in oil and gas, agriculture and other critical fields to enhance national development. Bauchi State […]

NUC refutes claims of 100 fake professors in Nigeria varsities  By Uji A. Iliyasu Abuja  The National Universities Commission (NUC) has said that the purported  report of 100 fake professors in the nation’s universities was a figment of imagination of mischief makers who are out to deceive gullible Nigerian public. Acting Executive Secretary of NUC, […]