Dr Chris Ngige, Minister of Labour and Employment, Tuesday evening said that the ministries of Finance, Education, Labour and Employment and the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation would meet with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to resolve issues affecting the education sector. Disclosing this when he appeared on Channels Television, […]

By Marie-Therese Nanlong The Director-General/Chief Executive of the Industrial Training Fund, ITF, Sir Joseph Ari has advocated the entrenchment of skills empowerment programmes in the school’s curriculum from the primary to the tertiary levels saying such would change the perception of Nigerians about skills acquisition and enable them embrace such as a viable way of […]

The Katsina State Government has fixed Oct. 5, 2020, for the reopening of public and private primary and secondary schools in the state. The state Commissioner of Education, Prof. Badamasi Lawal, made the announcement on Tuesday in Katsina. The commissioner said that revisions of second term works would be conducted from Monday, Oct.5, to Friday, […]

By Rotimi Ojomoyela – Ado-Ekiti Ekiti State gets new University as the state’s House of Assembly on Tuesday passed the bill for the upgrading of the State College of Education to University of Education, Science and Technology. The bill was passed through unanimous resolution at Tuesday’s plenary in Ado-Ekiti presided over by the Speaker, Mr […]

Zatem Consultancy Services will, on Saturday, October 3, hold a conference termed Literary Connect 2.0, that will see administrators, teachers, special needs tutors and other coming together.

Niger state government has announced the reopening of all basic and post-basic classes of private and public institutions for third term of 2019/2020 academic session on Oct. 4. Hajiya Hannatu Salihu, the Niger state Commissioner for Education, announced this during a news conference in Minna on Monday. Salihu said that the decision to reopen schools […]

By Adesina Wahab and Adeola Badru Lagos State University (LASU) has elected members of Senate/Governing Council Vice Chancellor Selection Committee to screen and select the institution’s next Vice Chancellor. The elected members of the committee are; Professors Barakat Animashaun, Olatunde Owolabi and Babatunde Yusuf. Vanguard can confirm that the University’s outgoing VC, Prof. Olanrewaju Fagbohun, […]

By Adesina Wahab and Adeola Badru Eighteen professors, 11 of them from the University of Ibadan, UI, are now in the race to become the next Vice Chancellor of the institution, checks by our correspondent have revealed. Apart from the 11 applicants from UI, there are three from the University of Ilorin, one each from […]

By Joseph Erunke – Abuja The Governing Council of the University of Abuja has approved the promotion of six academic staff to the rank of professor and four others to the rank of associate professor with effect from 2018 and 2019. A statement, Sunday by the university’s Head, Information and Public Relations, Dr Habib Yakoob, […]

The Edo State Government has rescheduled the resumption of primary and secondary schools across the state for the 2020/2021 academic session to Tuesday, October 6, 2020. In a statement, Special Adviser to the Edo State Governor on Media and Communication Strategy, Mr Crusoe Osagie, said Primary and Secondary Schools in Edo State will resume for […]

Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, has stated that examination into model colleges and upgraded Junior Secondary Schools, JSS, will be strictly by computer-based test, CBT, from 2021.

Intervention to help mitigate the effect of lockdown LSETF, First Bank float education loan programme  By Olasunkanmi Akoni Lagos State Government in partnership with First Bank of Nigeria has launched N5 billion Post-Coronavirus (COVID-19) Recovery Support capital for the education sector to support low-cost private schools across the state in mitigating the negative impact of […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ‎Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil (ASUU-KUST), has urged stakeholders to prevail on the Federal Government to fulfill its promises towards ending the ongoing strike.‎     The call was made in a statement jointly signed by Muhammad Gaya and Murtala Muhammad,  chairman and secretary of the association‎, and […]

By Adesina Wahab Contrary to speculations making the rounds in the social media that the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has called off strike, nothing of such is the case, investigation by the Vanguard has shown. Commenting on the development, the Chairman of the University of Lagos, UNILAG chapter of the union, Dr Dele […]

Sets conditions for operation By Charly Agwam – Bauchi The Bauchi state government has ordered the reopening of primary and secondary schools across the state with conditions that the government said must be met before schools can operate. The Commissioner of Education, Dr Aliyu Tilde made this known in Bauchi on Friday during a press […]