Education
1,163 IDP-children enrolled in school on Zulum’s 3rd day in Damasak
In the third and final day of Governor Babagana Umara Zulum’s humanitarian trip to Damasak, in the shores of Lake Chad, a total of 1,163 children of Internally Displaced Persons were enrolled into primary school after the governor supervised the enrollment campaign. The pupils who hailed from Guzamala and Abadam local government areas in […]
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Kano Govt pays N7bn Scholarship Debt
By Garba Adamu Kano State governor, Dr. Abdullahi Ganduje, has instructed the State anti-graft commission to closely monitor the foreign scholarship programme and its current position so as to allay the fears that there is alleged fraudulent activities going on in the settlement of scholarship obligations. The state chairman of the antigraft commission, Barrister Muhyi […]
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Governor Tambuwal Upgrades Shagari College of Education To University, Retains Name.
As it marks 50 years of its existence on Monday, the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto will soon become a University of Education that will retain the name of the former President Shehu Usman Aliyu Shagari after whom it was named. The college has been so named even before the death, two years […]
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Sensitization: 1,845 pupils enrolled Into school in Monguno
1,845 out of school children have been admitted in primary, junior and secondary schools in Monguno on the first day of grassroots sensitization and mobilization works by a high-powered committee, set by Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum. The governor had in his effort to accelerate school enrollment especially in northern Borno, where there […]
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Bauchi Poly to introduce new HND and PGD courses, assures more conducive learning environment for students
By Usman A. Koli Abubakar Tatari Ali Polytechnic Bauchi is to introduce new diploma, Higher National Diploma and Post Graduate Diploma courses in the institution to boost the level of academic performances of Bauchi indigenes. The Rector of the Polytechnic Dr. Adamu Said, dropped the hint in a telephonic interview with ATAP Campus Radio. Dr. […]
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Kankara Students Abduction: Katsina State Government Closes all Boarding Schools
By Mustafa Abubakar, Katsina Governor Aminu Bello Masari of Katsina State has ordered for the immediate closure of all boarding secondary schools in the state. The directive follows the abduction of an unspecified number of students of the Government Science Secondary School Kankara by bandits in the night on Friday. The Governor spoke on […]
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ASUU agrees to go back to class.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has agreed to call of its eight-month strike which has grounded academic activities in the public universities. The union leadership reached the consensus during a meeting with the government team led by the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige, in Abuja, on Friday. The government also […]
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FG moves to merge ASUU, SSANU, NASU
The Federal Government has started the process of bringing all unions within the university system under one single entity. This was disclosed by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Professor Abubakar Rasheed while speaking at the 2nd Quadrennial National Delegates Conference of Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) in Abuja. […]
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An NGO Donates Learning Materials to Orphans in Katsina
By Mustapha Abubakar, Katsina A Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) Voice of the Voiceless, Woman and Orphanage has distributed school bags, books and writing materials to orphans in some primary schools in Katsina state. The benefitting schools were Ibrahim Shehu Shema Model Primary School, Muhammad Dikko Memorial Primary School, Sandanbale Qur’anic Model Primary School, Ahmad Coomnassie […]
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Governor Zulum unveils 2 mega schools in low-income communities, targets 3,000 deprived kids for enrollment
A total of 3,000 children, mostly from underprivileged families, are being enrolled in two mega schools built and commissioned by Borno Governor, Babagana Umara Zulum on Monday. The elegant three-story designed schools were built at Ajilari Cross in Jere, and Abuja-Sheraton in Maisandari ward of Maiduguri metropolitan council, both low-income communities in which many […]
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