From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Chidoka family, under the Nneka Chidoka Outreach Program (NCOP), an NGO has announced payment of the first term 2024/2025 school fees for five hundred and thirty students at St. Andrews Primary and Secondary School. Also included Read more…
Former Nigerian leaders, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (Rtd), and Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar (Rtd) have commended the Registrar of National Examinations Council (NECO) Prof Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, for the various reforms that he has initiated since his assumption of office few years Read more…
Prof. Amechi Enyi, a senior lecturer at Ebonyi State University (EBSU), has responded to allegations of his involvement in the suicide of Miss Favour Ugwuka, a final year student in the Department of English and Literary Studies. Ugwuka committed suicide Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor Master Henry Chukwuemeka Okonkwo, the pupil of the Landmark International School Mgbakwu in Awka North LGA, who was reported beaten to coma by a teacher has died. The suspect Mrs Faith Nwoye had earlier been invited by Read more…
From Ifeoma Ejiofor The Commandant Nigerian Security Civil and Defence Corps, Anambra State, Francis Nnadi has expressed the preparedness of the command to partner with National Orientation Agency (NOA) on the federal government safe school project. Commandant Nnadi made the Read more…
The long-awaited student loan programme will take off on Friday with 1.2 million students in federal tertiary institutions across the country, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Education Loan Fund, Akintunde Sawyerr, has said. Sawyerr, who spoke at Read more…
The management of Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), led by its Managing Director, Mr. Akintunde Sawyerr, has announced May 24, 2024, as official date for the opening of the Fund’s portal for student loan applications. This was contained in a Read more…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU has threatened to down tools if the Federal Government fails to pay public university lecturers their withheld salaries. The President of ASUU, Emmanuel Osodeke disclosed this in an interview on Channels Television on Read more…
The Acting Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Chris Maiyaki has hinted that the Federal Government is working assiduously to reconstitute the governing councils of the 61 federal universities as soon as possible. Maiyaki made this known while Read more…
Participants in the second World Meeting on human fraternity met with Pope Francis on Saturday, marking the second and final day of the event organized by the “Fratelli Tutti Foundation”. Under the banner #BeHuman, scientists, economists, businessmen, athletes, and ordinary Read more…
A renowned philanthropist, Sir Emeka Offor, on Saturday, donated N100 million endowment fund for the development of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN). Offor, who is the Executive Chairman of Chrome Group of Companies, made the donation shortly after he Read more…
President Bola Tinubu had in June 2023, shortly after assuming office, dissolved the governing councils of federal universities, leaving the running of the institutions to vice chancellors. Expectedly, the dissolution of governing councils has sparked a power vacuum within universities, Read more…