Six inmates serving various jail terms at Umuahia Custodial Centre of the Nigeria Correctional Service, NCoS, have graduated from the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN. Five of them earned Second Class Upper Division honours. Sarafina Nwokonnta, the Chief Operations Officer of Vision Africa Radio Umuahia disclosed this when the President of Vision Africa, Bishop Sunday Onuoha, hosted members of the Abia State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ). She emphasized that providing...

In line with her three Vs of Values, Visibility, and Viability, the Vice Chancellor of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University, Prof Kate Azuka Omenugha, has honoured some students, teaching staff, and non-teaching staff members of the university, as well as those supportive of the university’s progress in 2024. This recognition which was a part of the university’s 2024 Carol of 9 lessons with the theme, “COOU Christmas: A Bouquet of Joy and Awards”, marked the gradual conclusion...

Abia State Governor, Alex Otti has approved the implementation of compulsory free education for primary schools and Junior Secondary Schools 1–3 with effect from 2025. The Commissioner for Basic and Secondary Education, Goodluck Ubochi, disclosed this in Umuahia on Friday, explained that free education is part of Governor Alex Otti’s efforts to transform the education sector in the state. He was speaking when the ministry received Abia State students who performed exceptionally well in the...

The Nigeria Meteorological Agency – NiMet – has fulfilled its promise to install a weather station within the premises of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu University in Igbariam. This was a promise made during the University’s climate action summit championed by the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Kate Omenugha, to create awareness and mobilize the University community to take concerted action against the adverse effects of climate change in the university. The well-attended climate summit a few months...

Anambra State Universal Basic Education Board, ASUBEB, has demoted six head teachers for collecting fees from their pupils. The Executive Secretary of the Board, Dr. Vera Nwadinobi announced the measure during a press briefing in Awka. Recall that Anambra State Government has been implementing free education policy from Nursery to Junior Secondary Schools extending the policy to Senior Secondary Schools this year. Sanctions has been meted out in the past on head teachers and principals...