THE Department of English, University of Lagos and the JP Clark family will hold the first JP Clark memorial from Monday, October 11-13, 2021. This 3-day event tagged ‘The First JP Clark Memorial’ in honour of the late poet and dramatist. The memorial will host Clark’s friend and literary soulmate Prof. Wole Soyinka who will […]

Human Development Initiatives, HDI Nigeria, a non- governmental organisation working to ensure accountability and transparency in the utilization of Universal Basic Education Funds, UBEF, particularly in Lagos State, on Wednesday advised the government of Lagos State to address Policy gaps in school enrolment

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja THE National Commission for Mass literacy, Adult and Non-Formal Education, NMEC, Thursday, said Nigeria has 38% non-literate adult population. The revelation came just as the country is faced with an estimated 6.9 million out-of-school children. Executive Secretary of the commission, Prof. Akpama Simon Ibor, who made the revelation at the 2021 […]

The National Homegrown School Feeding Programme has recommenced in Kaduna State, with 730,000 pupils benefiting. The programmer’s Focal Person in the state, Saude Atoyebi made this known while speaking at the event marking the commencement of the programme at Research Model Primary School Kawo, Kaduna, on Wednesday. Atoyebi disclosed that over 7,000 cooks were employed […]

A Nigerian Teacher, Dr Peter Ogudoro, has won an award by Facebook as one of the world’s amazing virtual community managers for developing a “most helpful and engaged educators’ platform called Nigerian Teachers’’. This is contained in a media release made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by the platform, Nigerian Teachers. The […]