Lagos Says When Schools Would Re-open

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu said that the decision to re-open schools would be taken in 2-weeks. Mr Sanwo-Olu disclosed this during a press briefing Thursday, on the COVID-19 situation in the state. “I know we are all eager to know the plans we have for the re-opening of our learning institutions. There is still a lot more works to be done in this regard and we are looking at the educational sector very differently....

Sex Education, Not Enough to Protect Girl Child From Sexual Assault— Educationist

Mrs. Felicia Bamidele, an educationist in Ilorin, Kwara, says sex education is not enough to protect the girl child from sexual assault in Nigeria. Bamidele, Proprietress of Great Ideas Nursery and Primary School, Ilorin stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ilorin on Thursday. She said sex education without strict government actions would not prevent the girl child from consistent sexual assault in the country. Also, Association calls on Edo govt. to protect lives of women,...

POCACOV Condemns Rape, Killing of Undergraduate in Benin

The Police Campaign Against Cultism and Other Vices (POCACOV), has condemned the alleged rape and killing of a female undergraduate of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), identified as Uwaila Omozuwa. The National Coordinator of POCACOV, CSP Ebere Amaraizu, in a statement on Monday in Enugu, said that the situation was unacceptable, barbaric and uncivilised. Omozuwa, 23, was allegedly attacked and wounded by yet to be identified hoodlums while studying inside the church located at Amadasun...

COVID-19: Students Beg FG to Reopen Schools

A cross-section of students in Kwara have appealed to the Federal Government to reopen schools despite the ravaging COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The students, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in separate interviews in Ilorin on Sunday, expressed their frustration for sitting home over a long period. NAN reports that the federal government had in March announced the closure of schools, churches, mosques and events centres as well as banning social...

Return to Roundtable or Face Consequences, FG Tells Striking ASUU

Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige says there will be consequences if the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) refuse government’s overture to return to the negotiating table. Ngige disclosed this on Sunday in a statement signed by his media aide, Emmanuel Nzomiwu, in Enugu. The statement said Ngige spoke in his hometown Alor, Anambra, where he donated palliative worth N15 million to vulnerable households to cushion COVID-19 effects. He said that the...

Post-COVID-19: Tough Times Await a Troubled Nigeria’s Educational System

How Nigeria’s Years of Mistakes Present a Tough Future for the Education Sector Post-Covid-19 No one envisaged that five years after world leaders agreed to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities by 2030 — as part of the Sustainable Development Goals — governments will be forced to shut schools over fear of COVID-19 spreading. Data are not looking good for global education. As of March, schools in 168 countries have...

Nigerian Children Want End to COVID-19, Pay Welfare Attention

Some children on Wednesday urged government at all levels to give increased attention to their well-being especially in the areas of welfare, health and education. The children, who spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, stated that if supported and encouraged, they would make their families and the nation proud. They said that though they might not understand all the intricacies of COVID-19, they hoped the situation would be addressed to enable...

Babcock University Begins Research on COVID-19 Remedy –VC

Prof. Ademola Tayo, the Vice-Chancellor of Babcock University says the institution has put together a team of researchers to find treatment for the raging coronavirus pandemic. The Vice-Chancellor disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday by Mr Joshua Suleiman, the Director of Marketing and Communication of the university to the  News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). According to the vice-chancellor, the team has submitted research proposals on COVID-19 to relevant government institutions for sponsorship and is...

COVID-19: Kwara Govt Extends Palliatives to Unilorin

The University of Ilorin (Unilorin) says about 643 of its workers had benefited from the COVID-19 palliatives being distributed by the Kwara Government. According to the institution’s bulletin issued on Monday, no fewer than 643 Departmental Staff have received food items donated by the state government as palliatives to cushion the effect of the lockdown occasioned by Coronavirus pandemic. The university said that the food items, which included 200 bags of 5kg rice, 100 bags...

Education In the Midst of COVID-19 Pandemic: Focus On Enugu State

The current spate of the pandemic ravaging the global community has kept world leaders and organizations on edge to find a possible cure. Meanwhile, as a precautionary measure, schools, religious places of worship, markets and other places of gathering were shut down so as to curb the transmission and spread of the virus. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, records, 191 countries implemented countrywide closure of educational institutions and over...

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