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Ministry of education confirms death of GSS kwali student, Nuhu

Ihesiulo Grace 18 August 2021 0

By Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The federal ministry of education has confirmed the death of Nuhu Yahaya, the 13 year old JSS 2 student of federal government college, Kwali Abuja. Sources within the school had alleged that a female teacher had beaten the boy for failure to complete his assignment and

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FG to meet stakeholders July 30 to review safe reopening of schools

Ihesiulo Grace 24 July 2020 0

The Minister of State, Education, Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has revealed that the Federal Government would meet with stakeholders again on July 30, to review the guidelines, provisions and preparations for safe reopening of schools. READ ALSO: We will reopen schools only when it is safe to do so, Northern Education Commissioners say Nwajiba also rvealed […]

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Niger Govt. gets $6m World Bank grant to support out-of-school children

Ihesiulo Grace 16 October 2019 0

The Niger Government on Wednesday said it has received a six million dollar World Bank grant to get the teeming out-of-school children in the state back to classroom. Alhaji Abubakar Aliyu, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education disclosed this during an interview in Minna. Aliyu said that the grant would be utilised by the State Universal […]

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Fuel subsidy to gulp N450 bn in 2020 -finance minister

Ihesiulo Grace 15 October 2019 0

Mrs Zainab Ahmed, the Minister for Finance, Budget and National Planning says under-recovery of Premium Motor Spirit (PMS), popularly referred to as fuel subsidy will gulp N450 billion in 2020. She said this on Monday in Abuja, at the public presentation of the 2020 budget proposals. Ahmed said it was called ‘under-recovery’ because it was […]

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FG announces plans to employ all qualified and licenced teachers

Ihesiulo Grace 10 June 2019

Sonny Echono, Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education has confirmed that every qualified and licenced teacher would be employed as part of efforts to rid the system of unqualified teachers. He said this while monitoring the May Diet of the Teachers Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE) organised by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) in Abuja […]

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FG tasks varsity councils on policies

Ihesiulo Grace 28 February 2018 0

The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Architect Sonny Echono, on Tuesday in Abuja, reminded her representatives on the governing councils of federal universities that they are either political or internal nominees and that as policy makers their business was to ensure strict adherence to government policies. He said: “Every decision by Council should be

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Why We Can't Stop Free Schools Feeding – Aregbesola

Ihesiulo Grace 27 April 2015 0

Osun State Governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, has given reasons why the state government cannot afford to stop school feeding programme. The governor said this, while reacting to a news item published by a national newspaper (not the Daily Times) that the Osun State government might stop free feeding of school children, based on recommendation by […]