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Nov

2023

Govt Shuts Down School As Police Arrest Female Teacher, Others Over Sexual Abuse Of 3-Year-Old Pupil

Govt Shuts Down School As Police Arrest Female Teacher, Others Over Sexual Abuse Of 3-Year-Old Pupil The Enugu State Police Command has arrested a female teacher, bus driver, and his attendant for sexual abuse of a three-year-old pupil of Tenderlink School, Trans-Ekulu, Enugu Meanwhile, the state government has shut down the school till an investigation of sexual abuse of female pupils in the said school has been concluded. The state commissioner, Kanayo Uzuegbu, who has ordered the Deputy Commissioner of Police in charge of the State Criminal Intelligence and Investigation Department (State CID) Enugu, in a statement issued late Friday…

Nov

2023

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President Tinubu Announces Cancellation Of 40% IGR Deduction From Universities

Abuja, Education, News Flash

President Tinubu Announces Cancellation Of 40% IGR Deduction From Universities President Bola Tinubu has announced the cancellation of the automatic deduction of 40 per cent from the Internally Generated Revenues (IGR) of federal universities. Tinubu made this known on Friday at an ongoing 75th Founder’s Day ceremony of the University of Ibadan (UI) in Ibadan. President Tinubu, who was represented by the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, said the policy implementation is ill-timed, adding that universities are struggling. In his speech as a Visitor to the university, Tinubu pledged his commitment to the reform of the nation’s education sector as…

Nov

2023

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SSA To Tinubu On Students Engagement, Asefon Switches To Action, Harmonises NANS Ahead Of Convention

Education, News Flash, People & Events

SSA To Tinubu On Students Engagement, Asefon Switches To Action, Harmonizes NANS Ahead Of Convention As an experience and ideological comrade, Asefon Sunday has showed that he is capacitated enough to excel in his new office. Just days after his appointment as Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Students’ Engagement, Comrade Asefon Sunday has harmonized National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, ahead of her convention. In a press release sighted by our correspondent, Asefon held a strong stakeholders meeting with concerned individuals in the association, which include NANS President, Senate President, CPC Chairman, among others. Giving report, he said:…

Nov

2023

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How 65 Out Of 85 Directors Fail FG’s Perm Sec Promotion Examination

Abuja, Education, News Flash

How 65 Out Of 85 Directors Fail FG’s Perm Sec Promotion Examination Sixty-five directors in the Federal Civil Service have failed to meet the cut-off mark at the ongoing promotion examination for the position of Permanent Secretary with only 20 directors scaling through the exercise. Only 20 directors out of 85 initially invited to sit for promotion to the post of Permanent Secretary in the federal civil service have successfully scaled through the exercise. Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HOS), Dr Folasade Yemi- Esan, announced this following the release of the results on Tuesday. Yemi- Esan emphasised…

Nov

2023

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Final Year Student Electrocuted While Installing Solar Panels

News Flash, Education, South South

Final Year Student Electrocuted While Installing Solar Panels A final year student of Petroleum Training Institute, Effurun, Delta State has been electrocuted while installing solar panels on a one-storey building. PUNCH Metro gathered that the gory incident occurred in a business location close to a commercial bank at the Warri Garage Area on Thursday, October 19, 2023. Witnesses told journalists that the aluminium ladder used by the student in climbing up to the position he intended to install the solar panels was magnetised by the high-tension wires linking a neighbouring commercial bank. Consequently, he reportedly got electrocuted in the process,…

Oct

2023

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Abia State Government Seals Off Emerald Schools Located At Crystal Park Avenue, Off Port Harcourt Road Aba, Advises Parents.

Abia State, Education, Good Governance

Public Service Announcement. Abia State Ministry of Education wishes to inform the general public that Emerald Schools located at Crystal Park Avenue, Off Port Harcourt Road, Aba in Aba South LGA has been sealed and its operational approval withdrawn. This is as a result of the Ministry's findings which showed that the said school was operating below the stipulated standards set for the operation of private schools in the State, a situation which led to the umfortunate death of a pupil. Parents/ guardians whose children/ wards attend the school, are advised to withdraw them without further delay. While the Ministry…

Oct

2023

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FG To Start Farming With Tertiary Institution Vacant Lands – Senator Abubakar Kyari, Minister Of Agriculture And Food Security

Education, FGN

FG To Start Farming With Tertiary Institution Vacant Lands The Federal Government has revealed its plan to utilise idle acres of land in tertiary institutions for farming as part of measures to boost food supply across the country. Senator Abubakar Kyari, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, made this known at the Seventh-Day Adventist Church, Eastern Nigeria Union Conference Centenary Public Lecture and Food Summit with the theme ‘”Ending Food Shortage in Nigeria, How to Apply The Surplus Concept’, in Port Harcourt on Friday. Kyari, who was represented by the ministry’s Deputy Director, Nutrition and Food Safety, Nuhu Kilishi, stated…

Oct

2023

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This Life: 17-Year-Old Girl Declared Missing 6 Days Ago Now Found In A Hotel

CBN/Commercial Banking, Crime, Education, Love & Life, News Flash, Security

INSIDE LIFE: 17-Year-Old Girl Who Was Declared Missing 6 Days Ago Found In A Hotel A 17-year-old Michelle Chika Emenike who was declared missing 6 days ago after she was last seen in a GIG bus in Port Harcourt has been found. According to Portharcourt Special, She was found in a hotel. A close source reached out to us last night and said “We just saw her now at Obi Wali. My eldest brother’s friend saw her at another world hotel and gave us a call. Right now, she is in my family house”. SPECIAL ADVERT PROMO FOR 2023 IGBA-OTOMU,…

Oct

2023

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House Of Representatives Reject Motion To Make WAEC, NECO, JAMB Free For Nigerian Students

Education, National Assembly

Reps Reject Motion To Make WAEC, NECO, JAMB Free For Nigerian Students The House of Representatives on Wednesday rejected a motion calling on the F.G to make all secondary school examinations for 2023/2024 free for all Nigerians as part of measures to cushion the effect of fuel subsidy removal. The motion, moved by Anamero Dekeri (Edo, All Progressives Congress, APC), asked the Federal Government of Nigeria to pay the fees for the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), National Examination Council (NECO) and Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) examinations for all students. However, the motion was rejected by…

Oct

2023

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LP Chieftain Oseloka Obaze Shares Peter Obi’s NYSC, UNN And WAEC Certificates ( See Photos)

Politics, Education, Presidency

LP Chieftain Shares Peter Obi’s NYSC, UNN And WAEC Certificates (Photos) A Labour Party (LP) chieftain, Oseloka Obaze on Wednesday reacted to the allegation that the presidential candidate of the party, Peter Obi has discrepancies in his credentials. National Publicity Secretary of the Lamidi Apapa-led faction of the party, Abayomi Arabambi made this claim. Arabambi in an interview on AIT, said the name written on Obi’s academic certificate from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), was different from the name written on the NYSC certificate of the former governor. Obaze, however, in a post on X (formerly known as Twitter)…