Yabatech rector warns students on 75% class attendance
The management of Yaba College of Technology (YCT), has warned the new students of the college on the attainment of 75 per cent class attendance in a semester as parameter that qualifies students to sit for any examination in the institution.
Strike looms in Abia varsity as lecturers bemoan unpaid salaries
Barely a month after the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, called off its strike, the joy of the students of Abia State University, Uturu, is set to be cut short as the lecturers of the institution are set to embark on another strike over unpaid salaries.
Lagos lauds ESSPIN on quality assurance in public schools
Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, has lauded the Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN) of the Department for International Development (DFID) for the improvement in quality assurance in the state public schools.
Unemployment heightens insecurity, say Wogu, Lokoson
MINISTER of Labour and Productivity, Chief Emeka Wogu, and Commandant of the National Defence College NDC, Rear Admiral Thomas Lokoson, have said unemployment is one of the single largest contributing factors to insecurity in the country and called for broad base policy initiatives including the input and participation of security agencies as a way out of youth restiveness arising from joblessness in the country.
Delta lawmaker abducted
FORMER member of Delta State House of Assembly, who represented Oshimili South constituency, Mr. Gabriel Okpuno, was, yesterday, abducted by unknown gunmen and taken to an unknown destination.
FG, Boko Haram begin dialogue
The Federal Government may have bowed to pressure from the British Government to dialogue with members of Boko Haram Islamic sect, Vanguard has learnt.
