By Elizabeth Osayande Osaivbie Izedonmwen, 10, continued his reading campaign recently visiting Model Primary School, Lekki, and Foreshore School, Ikoyi, both in Lagos, where he had a book meet-up with excited pupils. During the visits, Osaivbie had reading sessions from his debut children’s novel, Wonders of Me.   He introduced and read excerpts from it to primary […]

By Kennedy Mbele History was recently made at the popular Ebonyi State University, EBSU, Abakaliki, as the state-owned institution meritoriously appointed one of its former students, Dr. Simon Ugochukwu Nwankwo, as the Head, Department of Mass Communication. With the appointment, Nwankwo now leads the entire department, including some of his former lecturers who taught him […]

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja A total of 64,000 participated in the 2025 National Common Entrance Examination, NCEE, conducted across the country on Saturday by the National Examinations Council, NECO. The examination body, which disclosed this in Abuja yesterday, said Lagos topped all states of the federation with the highest number of candidates. The candidates, mostly […]

The Congress of University Academics, CONUA, has called for the pursuit of justice, equity and excellence with the university system and the larger Nigerian society as the nation marks Democracy Day.

Exam malpractice (popularly known as “expo”) used to be a carefully planned and executed offence. There was fear that discovery could lead to the cancellation of the exam, withholding of the results by the governing body and severe disciplinary action – even prosecution – for candidates, teachers and exam officials implicated. Unfortunately, corruption has virtually […]