The FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, on Wednesday, faulted officials who issued an unauthorised directive announcing a shutdown of schools across the city, saying that Abuja schools are not under any form of threat. Speaking during a routine tour of ongoing projects in Guzape District, Wike said he was shocked to see reports suggesting that the […]
The Delta state government has released the 2025/2026 academic calendar for all public and private schools. In a statement, Patricia Iniovosa-Okakwu, functioning permanent secretary in the ministry of basic and secondary education, announced the dates. She signed on behalf of Rose Ezewu, commissioner for secondary education, and Kingsley Ashibogwu, commissioner for primary education. According to […]
Some educationists say a multi-faceted approach involving collaboration between schools, teachers, parents and students is crucial in combating bullying in schools. They made their views known in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Wednesday, in reaction to a recent bullying incident that occurred in an Abuja school. Mr Sunday […]
…Sexual indecency booms …SS2 students impregnates own teacher By Nosa Àkeñzua A morally scary new ‘fad’ in some secondary schools in Delta State has left residents of the oil-rich South-South state shocked and in an uproar. Reports said not a few students and school operators are involved in the immorality of engaging in what a […]
BY UKPONO UKPONG As schoold resume for the 2nd term of 2022/2023 academic session, low turnout of students have been recorded across most of the schools in the nation’s capital, Abuja, especially in the Kwali Area Council of Abuja, the FCT. This was witnessed yesterday during the routine inspection tour to both private and public […]
Ukpono Ukpong, Abuja The Education Secretariat of Federal Capital Territory Administration has again reiterated it’s commitment to ensuring the safety of it’s teeming school age students in the various schools within the Federal Capital Territory. Addressing a press briefing in Abuja, the Acting Director, Education, Mallam Leramoh Abdulrazaq, said it was imperative to again allay […]
All Chinese schools now have full access to the Internet, and 95.2 percent of them are equipped with multi-media classrooms, according to a senior official with China’s Ministry of Education (MOE). The country has been constantly accelerating informationization of teaching, and sees it as underpinning the modernization of education, said Zhong Denghua, vice minister of […]
Oyo State Government has announced a shift in the date for Common Entrance examination into its Schools of Science from August 19 to September 1, 2020. READ ALSO: Oyo State Cancels 3rd Term, Approves Guide For Resumption Of Schools The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr Olasunkanmi Olaleye, said in a statement on Tuesday […]
Nations, like individuals and corporations, are living in times they make painful decisions because of the COVID-19 pandemic. One of such decisions that Nigeria made on Wednesday was that schools should remain closed. The schools have been shut down since March due to the outbreak of the virus. But since then, the debate has been […]
Sango-Ota (Ogun) – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Monday kicked against the reopening of schools by the Federal Government due to the COVID-19 pandemic currently ravaging the country. Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, ASUU National President, spoke in Ota, Ogun. According to him, the Federal Government needed to address the challenges of education sector […]
Bwari (FCT) – The Federal Government has advised institutions of learning to put in place preventive measures against COVID-19 before announcing re-opening dates. The Minister of Education, Mr Adamu Adamu, gave the advice at the 2020 Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions on Tuesday in Abuja. The meeting was organised by the Joint Admissions […]
Ilorin – A Professor of Educational Management, Sidikat Ijaiya, has cautioned the Federal Government to ensure that proper assessment of all schools was done before reopening the institutions. She said this should be completed ahead resumption of students to schools to prevent the schools from becoming epicentres of the COVID-19 pandemic. Ijaiye, a former Deputy […]
…Lists conditions for reopening of schools, considers sectionalising classes …Urges states, private schools owners to plan ahead on how to ensure safety for students The Federal Government has said that it has not announced any date for the reopening of schools across the country. Speaking at the resumed Daily briefing of the Presidential Task Force […]
Chairman, senate committee on navy, Senator George Sekibo, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Rivers east has thrown his weight behind the decision of the Rivers state government to build school on the site of a demolished hotel in the state. According to Sekibo, the government reserved every right to convert confiscated property to public use. Speaking […]
The Federal Government has warned against resumption of any school at any level, saying all schools remained closed. Acting on the government’s directive, National Universities Commission, NUC, has warned vice chancellors against reopening universities for any activities. The government, in a circular dated Friday, May 8, 2020, to heads of commissions and regulatory bodies in […]
Schools in Italy will remain closed through the summer holidays and reopen in September, the prime minister said in an interview published on Sunday. Italy has been under lockdown for longer than any other Western nation, with the epidemic hitting its industrialized north hard. There have been more than 26,000 deaths and nearly 200,000 cases. […]
The member representing Aguata 1 Constituency in Anambra State House of Assembly and Chairman House committee on Health, Dr. Cater Umeh, at the weekend, called on parents to confine their children at home now the schools have shut down. Hon Umeh, who observed that some parents took their children and wards to markets to assist […]
The Gombe state government has threatened to withdraw the operational licence of any school that fails to comply with the directive to shut down schools to contain the coronavirus pandemic. Commissioner for Education, Dr. Habu Dahiru, gave the warning when he spoke to newsmen on Wednesday in Gombe. According to him, Gov. Inuwa Yahaya’s decision […]
The Gombe state government has ordered the closure of all schools to prevent the spread of the coronavirus in the state. Governor Inuwa Yahaya said this while speaking during a radio and television broadcast on COVID-19 in Gombe on Monday. He said the closure will take immediate effect from Tuesday March 24. “In accordance with […]
Birnin Kebbi – The Kebbi State Government has ordered the immediate closure of all primary and secondary schools in the state for the safety of their pupils and students. It said that this was due to the detection of people who had contacted the coronavirus in parts of the country. The Commissioner for Basic and […]