Chizoba Solar Int’l Foundation Set to Train and Equip Youths and Others With Relevant Skills

AWKA — Lately, social media is awash with stories of drug abuse, the quest for quick money, and all manner of decadence that have become characteristic of our society in recent times. While much of this is blamed on unemployment and disempowerment of the citizenry, perhaps rightly so, the major challenge however is that our collective future is further threatened to a breaking point and solution appears quite far away given government posturing over the...

ASUU Declares Monday, 7th February, 2022, as Lecture-free Day

Less than a week ago, President Muhammadu Buhari, assured the nation of his administration’s commitment towards fulfilling the agreement with the ASUU. He pleaded with the union to be patient and consider current economic realities. However, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced Monday, 7th of February, 2022, as a lecture-free day in universities across the country to inform the university communities and the public on the government’s failure to fulfill the agreement...

About 117 Indigenes Of Kebbi Depart To India

Kebbi State government has sponsored about 117 students, indigenes of the state to study para-medical and engineering courses India. State Commissioner for Higher Education in the state, Prof Mukhtar Umar-Bunza, said the governor approved the release of $1,060,000 (USD) to cover tuition fees, accommodation, feeding and pocket money of the students. In his address, Kebbi state Governor, Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, at the Presidential Banquet Hall Birnin said the students were sent overseas not because there...

Disregard Circular on Deadline for Certificate Collection–University of Nigeria Nsukka

ENUGU — The management of the University of Nigeria calls on graduates of her great institution to disregard the directive on Facebook mandating her graduates who are yet to collect their Degree and Diploma certificates to do so before February 4, 2022. The disclaimer released and signed by Okwun Omeaku, Public Relations Officer, stated that UNN has not fixed any deadline for the collection of Certificates. The fake news he said was first published in...

Nigeria’s Education System is Poor — Gbajabiamila

ABUJA — The speaker of the house of reps, Femi Gbajabiamila says Nigeria’s education system is poor. He made this statement on Monday while inaugurating some projects at Igbobi College, Yaba, Lagos state. According to him,  the country’s educational system is nothing much to speak about. Gbajabiamila urged that all hands must be on deck to remedy the situation. “The education system is poor in Nigeria. It is something I talk about anywhere I get...

Rise In Aggression And Violence Among Nigerian Children

ENUGU — The Acting Director of National Orientation Agency Enugu, Mrs. Ifeyinwa Ugwu has called on parents, teachers, and the government to rise to their responsibilities in positive shaping of the minds of the Nigerian child. Ugwu made this call at the 4thAnnual Colloquium organized on Tuesday by Relief Pitch Initiative; theme: Unrestrained Aggression a Highway to Extreme Violence and Panacea to Challenges. Supporting the need for the formation of Integrity Club in Schools to...

We Are Developing Devices to Tackle Insecurity, Says VC UNIMAID

ABUJA — The Vice-Chancellor, University of Maiduguri, Prof. Aliyu Shugaba says the institution has recently gone into research and innovative programme to develop devices to tackle insecurity challenges in the campus. Shugaba disclosed this when he featured at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum in Abuja. He said that the institution brought the innovative idea following the devastating effects of insecurity in Borno and its environs. According to him, the university is working with...

Obi Cubana Gives Scholarship, N100,000 Salary On Hawkers Who Gives Prisoners Money on Traffic

LAGOS — Businessman and socialite, Obi Iyiegbu, popularly known as Obi Cubana, kept to his promise as he has offered a letter of scholarship to Jeremiah Ekumah. Earlier last week, Ekuma, a young hawker, was caught on camera in the Ajah area of Lagos, giving money to persons who were being transported to prison in a Nigerian Correctional Service van. Obi Cubana, who chairs the Cubana Group, last Saturday, in an interview with media personality,...

Adamawa State To Punish Teacher That Abscond From Duty

YOLA — The Adamawa state Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development will punish any teacher that absconds from duty in school. Commissioner in the Ministry, Mrs. Wilbina Jackson dropped the hint when she undertook supervision of schools in the state capital, and lamented the poor turn out of both students and teachers on resumption last week. She warned teachers who are yet to resume after the new year break to do so in their...

SSANU Caution Governors Against Politicizing Education

MAIDUGURI — The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), North East Zone has cautioned governors against politicizing education. SSANU National Vice President, Abdulkadir Isa urged the government at all levels to stop establishing universities they cannot fund. The warning has contained a communique issued on Friday after a meeting in Maiduguri, the Borno capital. “The neglect and poor funding of universities by some governors to the detriment of teaching and research is a matter...

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