MAIDUGURI — Borno State Government has released the sum of N19.4 million for the payment of scholarships to 59 law students who are indigenes of the state studying in the three law schools in the country. Isa Bala, Executive Secretary of Borno Scholarship Board who disclosed in Maiduguri, said the scholarship was part of the government’s social welfare and cooperative responsibility to the indigenes of the state. He explained that Governor Babagana Zulum approved the...

ABUJA — Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on media, Mallam Garba Shehu, says Nigerian universities are as good as and even better than foreign institutions. Shehu stated this on Saturday at the graduation ceremony of his son at the Glisten International Academy, Abuja. According to him, though foreign institutions extend invitations to Nigerians to study in their countries at a discounted rate, Nigerian universities are not inferior to them. He noted that the federal...

By Anastasia Mbabie (Staff Reporter)   AWKA — Primate, Church of Nigeria, Anglican Communion, His Grace, Most Rev. Henry Ndukuba at the weekend commissioned Law faculty building of Paul University, Awka, Anambra State. This came as staff members of the University used the occasion to protest the nonpayment of their salaries for about 28 months. The law building, named after Archbishop of Niger Province, His Grace Rt Rev. Alexander Ibezim was inaugurated by the Primate...

By Hassan Umar Shallpella (Regional Correspondent)   JOS — In an effort to provide quality education in Plateau State, the government had withdrawn operating licenses of all private schools in Plateau state, following the proliferation of illegal private schools in the state. Mrs. Elizabeth P Wapmuk, Commissioner for Education (Secondary) while briefing Journalists in Jos on the government decision, directed proprietors to obtain fresh operation licenses in an effort to checkmate the proliferation of illegal...

Students in public Universities in Nigeria will spend another month at home following the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) extension. President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, announced in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said the four weeks extension would give the government more time to resolve all the outstanding issues. The statement read in part: “Following extensive deliberations and taking cognizance of government’s past failures to abide by its...