President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Prof. Godswill Obioma as Registrar/Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council (NECO). Mr Azeez Sani, Head, Information and Public Relations Division of the Council made this known to newsmen in Abuja on Friday. He said a letter dated May 15, 2020 with Reference No: FME/PS/396/C1/1/134 and signed by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, stated that the appointment which was for an initial tenure of five...
EducationNewsNigeriaBuhari Approves Sack of NECO Registrar, Four Management Staff
PilotnewsMay 20, 2020
President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the termination of the appointment of Prof. Charles Uwakwe as the Registrar/Chief Executive of the National Examinations Council. Also, Four Management Staff of the Council were dismissed from Service for various offenses. Mr Azeez Sani, Head, Information and Public Relations Division of the Council made this known in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday. He said Uwakwe was accused of violating the Public Procurement Act (2007)...
EducationNewsUnited StatesLeaders ‘Not Pretending to Be in Charge’ – Obama Tells Graduating Students
Bada Yusuf Amoo (Correspondent)May 18, 2020
Former United States’ President, Barack Obama urged graduating students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities to be in charge as they step into the real world. He added that if they want to see real change, it won’t come from current leaders. Obama spoke at the virtual commencement speech on Saturday to the HBCU students. Obama stated that the coronavirus pandemic has “more than anything … fully, finally torn back the curtain on the idea...
OWERRI — The Imo Governor, Sen. Hope Uzodinma, on Saturday announced his adminstration’s plan to reposition the Imo State University (IMSU) for academic excellence. Uzodinma who made the announcement while receiving a report from the institution’s visitation panel in Owerri, said that the state was poised to take the university to a competitive and admirable height. “It is either IMSU becomes a university or never. We will exhaust all extant rules to reposition the tertiary institution for...
CoronavirusEducationNewsNigeriaCOVID-19: NAUTH Organizes Staff Training and Workshop
PilotnewsMay 15, 2020
NNEWI – As part of its strategic efforts towards containing the spread of the COVID-19 infection, the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Teaching Hospital (NAUTH )management through the Taskforce on COVID-19 has mounted training and workshop on the prevention, control and case management of the pandemic for 400 selected members of staff. The training which held from Monday 11th May to Friday 15th may, 2021 involved all cadres of staff starting from the doctors, nurses to the...
EducationNigeriaHow FG Plans to Feed 3.1 Million Primary School Children at Home
Adeola Oladipupo (Correspondent)May 12, 2020
The Federal Government of Nigeria has released details of how the National Home-Grown School Feeding Program scheduled to begin on 14th May will be executed first in Abuja, Lagos and Ogun before other states. Following President Buhari’s directive to the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development to continue the school feeding programme, the ministry said it developed a programme to distribute take-home rations to the households of the children already on the...
CoronavirusEducationNewsNigeriaAfe Babalola Urges FG To Reopen Schools Within Four Weeks
Beloved John (Staff Writer)May 11, 2020
The founder, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, Chief Afe Babalola on Monday, urged the Federal Government against waiting till all towns and villages in the country are free from COVID-19 before reopening schools. According to him, “only the Almighty God Himself can determine when the current coronavirus pandemic will be eradicated globally,” In a statement, the ABUAD founder stated that schools nationwide were suddenly closed down by the government on March 23 when some pupils...
EducationNigeriaTechnologyNOUN Begins Free Virtual Training for 600 Participants
PilotnewsMay 9, 2020
The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has began virtual lectures and hands-on-laps training for 600 participants through its Africa Centre of Excellence on Technology Enhanced Learning, (ACETEL). Mr. Ambrose Gowong, Communications Officer, ACETEL, in a statement said the training was a partnership between ACETEL-CISCO Academy and the Directorate of Learning Content Management System (DLCMS) of NOUN. He said NOUN Deputy Vice-Chancellor Administration, Prof. Justus Sokefun, who declared the training open, said the training was part...
CoronavirusEconomyEducationNigeriaAgain Atiku’s American University of Nigeria,AUN Sacks Over 100 Staff
Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)May 5, 2020
Amid economic crunch and novel Coronavirus pandemic being experienced across the globe the American University of Nigeria based in Yola, Adamawa state reportedly sacked over 100 staff. Multiple sources say that the affected staff includes security, auxiliary, administration and staff of other departments. This is the second time an institution owned by Nigeria’s former vice president Atiku Abubakar is sacking staff within a week and this comes three days after Gotel Communications sack 54 staff...
CoronavirusEducationNewsNigeriaUnilorin Set to Make COVID-19 Vaccine Research Breakthrough
PilotnewsMay 4, 2020
The University of Ilorin (Unilorin) says it will soon produce a vaccine for Coronavirus (COVID-19). The institution said this in a Bulletin issued on Monday that a team of medical experts and scientists led by a Professor of Medical Virology, Prof. Mathew Kolawole, is working on the project. It stated the research team had developed three viable proposals for research on various aspects of the contagious disease. Kolawole, who is the Director of the University’s...