The federal government has cancelled the national policy mandating the use of indigenous languages as the medium of instruction in schools. Tunji Alausa, the minister of education, announced this at the 2025 Language in Education International Conference organised by the British Council in Abuja on Wednesday. The policy, approved in 2022, stipulated that from “early […]
The federal government has dismissed reports claiming it has set a new minimum age of 12 years for admission into Junior Secondary School 1 (JSS1), describing the information as false and misleading. In a statement issued on July 25, Boriowo Folasade, Director of Press and Public Relations at the Federal Ministry of Education, said the […]
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 dosing during her class, despite […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]