By Louis Achi The recent laudatory appraisal of Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State, focusing on his leadership trajectory by a respected Northern political personality go beyond the governor’s recent deserving, acclamatory recognitions mirrored in the “Best Governor of the Year Award, 2024,” bestowed on him by a major national…
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Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Aisha Garba has unveiled a three-year strategic development plan aimed at repositioning basic education sub-sector in Nigeria. The roadmap, tagged “UBEC 2025–2027 Strategic Blueprint” was officially launched at a two-day Management Retreat held by the Commission in…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has vowed action against sharp practices in its ecosystem, insisting that it was committed to ensuring all its steps were not only audit-compliant but also fraud resistant. The Fund’s declaration came as it partners anti-corruption, military, paramilitary and other relevant agencies on…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has extended his warmest congratulations to the Catholic faithful and Christians worldwide on the election of Pope Leo XIV as the 267th Pontiff of the Catholic Church. In a statement released shortly after…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has officially announced the release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results. Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, revealed that the board withheld the results of 39,834 candidates out of…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has warned institutions against violating the terms and conditions of the fund’s payments on behalf of students. While NELFUND lacks the statutory power to suspend, remove, or expel erring heads of institutions, it will report any traced illegality to the Minister of…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja Nigeria has reaffirmed its resolve to build robust partnerships with Tunisia in energy, technology, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, education, and the creative sectors. This is as it called on investors to leverage the numerous investment opportunities engendered by the business-friendly policies and programmes of the President Bola Ahmed…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced that over half a million students have registered on its portal to benefit from the loan scheme. According to NELFUND’s Managing Director, Akintunde Sawyerr, the fund has received an average of 1,800 loan applications daily since its launch. Sawyerr made…
By Karen Ibrahim Nigeria has not made much progress in terms of national unity in 65 years of what many describe as flag independence. This is not because of its diversity; the more than 250 ethnic groups and multi religious composition. After all, India has more challenges than Nigeria in…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has announced plans for a comprehensive deployment of technology to transform basic education delivery across Nigeria. UBEC’s Executive Secretary, Aisha Garba, disclosed this on Monday in Abuja during a media briefing ahead of the 2025 International Conference on Smart Education and Digital…