Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Dr. Hammid Bobboyi, has disclosed that Federal Government statutorily released more than three hundred and eighty billion naira (N380bn) as the FGN-Universal Basic Education grant as at 31st October 2017.

Her ascendancy to the head of Chrisland University, one of the newly established  vision-driven private universities in Nigeria, located in Abeokuta, Ogun State,after approval by the federal government, did not come to many as  surprise, given her academic pedigree. 

Gbenga and Aisha Oyebode in partnership with the Murtala Mohammed Foundation and Harbor Point Limited recently brought the Hidden Figures initiative to Nigeria. The critically acclaimed movie, Hidden Figures, tells the true life story of three brilliant African-American women who were mathematicians at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and served as the brains behind one of the greatest operations in history: the launch of astronaut John Glenn (Glen Powell) into orbit, a spectacular achievement that became one of the historical moments the world remembers.

Munachi Ernest-Eze has launched himself into the Hall of Fame of the Cowbellpedia Secondary Schools Mathematics Television Quiz Show by becoming the first winner of both Junior and Senior categories.

Post-mortem examinations on the bodies of 26 teenage migrant girls found dead in the Mediterranean in early November confirmed they almost all drowned at sea, Italian news agencies reported Wednesday.