How FG Plans to Feed 3.1 Million Primary School Children at Home

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...

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Afe Babalola Urges FG To Reopen Schools Within Four Weeks

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...

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NOUN Begins Free Virtual Training for 600 Participants

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...

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Again Atiku’s American University of Nigeria,AUN Sacks Over 100 Staff

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...

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Unilorin Set to Make COVID-19 Vaccine Research Breakthrough

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...

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JAMB Remits N3.5bn to FG

EducationMoneyNigeriaJAMB Remits N3.5bn to FG

PilotnewsMay 4, 2020

The Joint Admissions and Ma­triculation Board (JAMB) has made an interim remit­tance of N3.5 billion to the Federal Government con­solidated revenue account. A statement by Dr. Fabi­an Benjamin, JAMB’s Head of Media in Abu­ja, explained that the remit­tance was in line with Prof. Ishaq Oloyede’s avowed commitment to remit whol­ly, excess funds generated from its operations, to the Federal Government. According to JAMB, payment of over N3.5 bil­lion had already been made to candidates by...

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COVID-19: Plateau SUBEB Adopts e-Teaching, Learning Methods

CoronavirusEducationNewsNigeriaCOVID-19: Plateau SUBEB Adopts e-Teaching, Learning Methods

PilotnewsMay 3, 2020

The Plateau State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has adopted alternative methods of teaching and learning for primary school pupils in line with the COVID-19 lockdown in the state. Chairman of the board, Prof. Mathew Sule, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Jos. Sule said the board had begun Television and Radio lessons for pupils in Mathematics, English and phonics, which is transmitted on the Plateau...

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Coronavirus: Nigerian Varsities, R esearch Institutes Capable of Developing Vaccine – Immunologist

CoronavirusEducationNigeriaCoronavirus: Nigerian Varsities, R esearch Institutes Capable of Developing Vaccine – Immunologist

PilotnewsMay 3, 2020

As the race for a COVID-19 vaccine intensifies, a professor of Immunology, Ganiyu Arinola, says Nigerian universities and research institutes have the capacity to develop a coronavirus vaccine. Arinola, a staff of the Department of Immunology, University of Ibadan, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Ibadan against the backdrop of the 2020 World Immunisation Week. NAN reports that the World Immunisation Week celebrated worldwide in the...

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Learning in a Pandemic, When ‘Online School’ is the Village Chalkboard

CoronavirusEducationNigeriaLearning in a Pandemic, When ‘Online School’ is the Village Chalkboard

PilotnewsMay 3, 2020

LAGOS – With her school shut because of the coronavirus, Tolu Alagba kneels as she copies down class notes from a communal village chalkboard, the closest thing to online lessons on an island with no electricity, a boat ride from Nigeria’s megacity Lagos. Like much of the world, Nigeria ordered schools shut in late March to curb the spread of the coronavirus. But while children in many countries have shifted to online lessons, that is...

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ABU Lecturers Set to Produce COVID-19 Treatment Drugs

CoronavirusEducationNigeriaABU Lecturers Set to Produce COVID-19 Treatment Drugs

Ibrahim Abdul' Aziz (Correspondent)May 2, 2020

As the world scientists and researchers are now bent on coming up with at least a vaccine for coronavirus, some senior lecturers of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria are set to produce herbal seeds and plants that improve the lungs and remove the mucous that block the chambers in COVID-19 attack, which brings about seizures and deaths. Professor Habib Umar Danmalam, of  Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, ABU Zaria said that instead of developing our local...

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