The House of Representatives on Tuesday took steps to create a smooth transition into the labour market for discharged National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) members. The Green Chamber urged the Federal Government to work out a plan that would enable discharged NYSC members to be retained in their primary places of assignment for one year after their national service. The …

The NNPC national science quiz champion in 2018, Tony Kabilan Okeke has won the 2023 Genetic Toxicology Technical Committee (GTTC) Professional Development award, organised by United States-based Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI). Based in Washington DC, HESI, a nonprofit organisation, said Okeke was given the award in recognition of his strides in the last four years of his study as …

The Nigeria Police Academy has opened an online portal for applications for its 10th regular course cadet degree programme from interested and qualified Nigerian candidates. In a statement on Monday in Abuja, the Force Public Relations Officer, Assistant Commissioner Olumuyiwa Adejobi said that the online registration process would run for six weeks, starting from 24th July to 3rd September. Adejobi …

The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Education has increased the school fees of new students into Federal Government Colleges (otherwise known as Federal Unity Colleges) to ₦100,000. The previous fees was N45,000. This was contained in a directive from the Office of the Director of Senior Secondary Education Department of the Federal Ministry of Education, dated 25th May …

The management of the University of Lagos, Akoka, Lagos State has increased fees for undergraduates to between N100,750 and N190,250 for returning students per session, depending on courses of study with medical and dentistry students paying the highest. New undergraduates will pay between N126,325 and N190,250, also depending on their courses of study. The charges on hostel accommodation and various …

Against the backdrop of hardship occasioned by the removal of subsidy on petrol, the leadership of the College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has directed its members to go to work only twice a week. COEASU also said if nothing was done urgently to arrest the hardship faced by its members, the devastating effect of the situation on ground …

The 19-year-old candidate in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), Mmesoma Ejikeme, accused by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) of result forgery has apologised to the examination body for her action. She read an apology letter in an investigative hearing by the House of Representatives Committee Ad hoc Committee to probe the matter headed by Hon. Sada …

Over 12,000 jobseekers, including physically challenged persons, have applied for the recently advertised teaching jobs in public secondary schools in Ekiti State. The Permanent Secretary in the state Teaching Service Commission, Mr. Michael Omolayo, who expressed satisfaction with the qualifying examination for the recruitment, disclosed that 500 successful candidates would be recruited by the government. Omolayo said in Ado Ekiti …

The Oyo State Government has said the over 1.5 million out-of-school children that have been absorbed into various public schools, under the 2017 to 2022 Better Education Service Delivery for All, will be mopped up and brought back to the classrooms under the BESDA-Additional Funding-Transforming Education System at state level programme. This was made known on Monday by the Permanent …

The Oyo State Government has released the 2022/2023 academic session Basic Education Certificate Examination (BEC) timetable for public schools in the state. This was announced by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Olusanjo Adeniyi on Friday. A statement by the Director of Press and Public Relations, Ministry of Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr. Rotimi …