Fuel subsidy removal: Private schools suspend bus services to reduce transportation cost

Some private schools across the country have suspended transportation services for students due to the spike in the price of fuel, the President of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPPS, Abayomi Otubela has said. Otubela, who spoke on Monday in Abuja, advised parents to devise alternative means of transporting their wards to school. “Many of our member schools have parked their school buses because of the huge cost of running them,” the...

WAEC releases 2023 WASSCE results 44 days after the examination

…withholds results of candidates from eight states The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has released the results of the 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE. The Head of the National Office, HNO, WAEC Nigeria, Patrick Areghan gave a breakdown of the results at a press briefing in Lagos on Monday. Areghan said that of a total of 1,613,733 candidates that sat for the examination, 794,280 were males, while 819,453 were females, representing 49.22...

Inadequate Teachers Hit Bauchi State as One Teacher Teaches all Subjects

In Misau Local Government Area of Bauchi State, it was found that in more than 79 schools across the LGA, only one teacher each, teaching all subjects. Korijo Umar, Director of School Services, Bauchi State Universal Basic Education Board, disclosed this during a media chat organized by the United Nations Children Fund UNICEF on the enrollment drive of out-of-school children in Misau and Alkaleri LGAs. Usman stated that many schools in the Misau LGA and...

UI, UNILAG, UNN lead the list of top ten universities in Nigeria

The latest ranking of Nigerian universities by Webometrics pitched the University of Ibadan, UI; University of Lagos, UNILAG; and University of Nigeria, UNN, as the best three universities in Nigeria. Webometrics is the largest academic ranking of higher education institutions that offers an independent, objective, free, open scientific exercise for providing reliable, multidimensional, updated and useful information about the performance of universities from all over the world The biannual ranking is based on web content...

NECO asks indebted states to pay over N3 billion owed council

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has lamented that states are   indebted to the council for Senior Schools Certificate Examination (SSCE) to the sum of  N3 billion at the end of 2022, and has asked the affected states to pay up the debt to enhance effective operations. Professor Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, Registrar of the Council disclosed this in an interview with journalists in Jos on Friday  shortly after carrying out inspection of the ongoing NECO examination...

More Than 1.6 million children Are Out Of School In North East-UNICEF

The Chief of Field Office, United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Maiduguri Phuong Nguyen has raised the alarm that no fewer than 1.6 million children are out of school in the North East. Nguyen, who disclosed a Seminar Foundation Literacy and Numeracy in North-East held in Maiduguri on Wednesday, explained that UNICEF remains committed to accelerating education delivery in Nigeria. “At least 1.6 million children are out of school in Borno, Adamawa, and Yobe States. Of...

Nigerian poet, journalist, Nathaniel selected for prestigious Iowa writing Program

Nigerian poet, journalist, and spoken word artist,  Soonest Nathaniel has been selected to participate in the esteemed International Writing Program (IWP) Fall Residency at the University of Iowa, United States. According to a report, Nathaniel is joining an exclusive group of authors that include several winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature, including Turkey’s Orhan Pamuk and China’s Mo Yan. These acclaimed authors started their journey towards global recognition at the IWP. Nathaniel, known for...

Foundation in Anambra plans to offer international scholarship to underprivileged student

The Chairman of Acobarry Foundation, Hon. Onyedika Chukwuma, has concluded plans to offer an international scholarship worth about N20 million to an underprivileged student of Ndiakwu Otolo, in Nnewi, Nnewi North LGA of Anambra State, to proceed for postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom. In a letter addressed to the leadership of Ndiakwu community in May this year, signed by Mr. Onyedika Chukwuma the Chairman of Acobarry Foundation, he informed the community of his intentions...

UNILAG increases school fees to over N100,000 due to ‘prevailing economic realities’

New and returning students of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, will be paying over N100,000 as school fees effective the first semester of the 2023/24 session, The West African Pilot News has learned. The increment in fees was proposed on Thursday at a meeting between the Vice Chancellor, Prof. Folasade Ogunsola, and the representatives of the non-teaching unions of the institution comprising of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, National Association...

Soludo’s scholarship to Nkechinyere Umeh restricted to state-owned university

Anambra State Governor, Prof Charles Soludo has offered a scholarship to Miss Nkechinyere Umeh with options restricted to state owned Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University. Miss Nkechinyere Umeh from Anambra State is the highest 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME), scorer with a cumulative mark of 360,after the Mmesoma Ejikeme forged result. Soludo in a statement issued by his chief Press secretary Mr. Christian Aburime said the governor has congratulated her for doing the state proud...

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