The Kwara state government has been urged to take over the payment of Kwara State Polytechnic Ilọrin, staff salaries for six months. The Rector of the Polytechnic, Engr Abdul Jimoh Mohammed made the plea on Thursday at the 29th Convocation Ceremony of the 2022/2023 academic session. About 8,350 students graduated during the occasion including 3,000 HNDs, 5,350 ONDs, and part-time students with 102 distinctions. “Our plea is for the government to give us what I...

Treasure Ayuba, a student of Bethel Baptist High School in Kaduna City, is back home after spending two Christmas seasons in the den of terrorists. The news was announced by the president of the Nigeria Baptist Convention, Israel Akanji. Akanji said Ayuba reunited with his family on Thursday. “Thanks be to our unfailing God,” the elated clergyman said. A total of 121 students, including Ayuba were whisked away at gunpoint to an unknown destination during...

President Bola Tinubu has said that the student loan programme would begin in January. President Tinubu announced this at the 29th Economic Summit organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group (NESG) in partnership with the Federal Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning in Abuja on Monday. “By January 2024, the new student loan programme must commence,” the President said, adding that the programme would put an end to the incessant strike actions by academic and...

The move to incorporate private universities as beneficiaries in the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has received stiff resistance from the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke on Wednesday at a two-day interactive session between TETFund and all unions of beneficiary institutions, said such a move would lead to the proliferation of private universities devoid of quality. Prof Osodeke, urged the agency to work more on the monitoring method...

Anambra State Governor, Professor Chukwuma Charles Soludo, presented cheques worth N1.524 billion to mission schools in the state as government support to improve quality of education and infrastructure. Governor Soludo presented the cheques to owners/operators of Anambra Mission Schools during a meeting held at Government Lodge, Amawbia. A total of 762 Anambra Mission Schools received N2,000,000 each from the government of Anambra State. Eight (8) schools returned to Salvation Army Schools received a total sum...

…Awards prizes for exceptional performance In celebration of World Teachers’ Day, the Ogun State, Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State has announced the immediate employment of 1,000 Ogun Teach Interns to address teacher shortages and improve the pupil-teacher ratio in public schools in celebration of World Teachers’ Day. 2,000 new OGUNTEACh applicants will join the previously engaged 2,000 interns. The Governor also recognized the exceptional contributions of teachers by awarding bungalows and cash prizes to...

The Director-General, of the National Teachers’ Institute (NTI) Kaduna, Prof. Musa Maitafsir says the Institute has plans to introduce a mandatory one-year Teacher Internship Programme by January 2024. Maitafsir made this known on Thursday in Abuja, at a news conference to mark the 2023 World Teachers’ Day with the theme ‘ The teachers we need for the education we want: The global imperative to reverse the teacher shortage ‘. The day has been observed annually on...