IN April 2018, when the Edo State Governor, Mr Godwin Obaseki, launched the Edo Basic Education Sector Transformation, popularly known as EdoBEST, many people did not envisage the kind of impact it would make in the education sector in the state and that it would become what other states would want to emulate. With massive renovation and construction of facilities in schools across the state and the various innovations that have been brought into the sector, it has really been able to give the pupils and students the best they deserve. 

Calls for collective efforts to curb waste, fraud As analysts advocate amendment to UBEC Act Allege officials violating UBEC’s free Act component Collecting money, selling books By Chris Ochayi The United States Agency International Development, USAID, has said that there was need for development partners to work together with the government at all levels and […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Kaduna State University (KASU) Chapter, says 75 per cent of the university’s students may drop out of school due to the monumental increase in tuition fees. Its Chairman, Dr Peter Adamu said in a statement in Kaduna on Wednesday, that the students might have to leave because their […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, have said the revelation by the United States Government that Nigerian parents spent over N190 billion on their children’s education in the country last year is an indictment of the education sector in Nigeria.

By Victorial Ojeme & Nwafor Sunday United States Government, Wednesday said that about 14,000 Nigerians who pursued U.S. graduate and undergraduate degrees, brought an estimated $501 million (N190,129,500,000.00) to the country last year. Disclosing this in a fact sheet released on its website, US government revealed that Nigeria sends more students to American colleges and […]