Chidimma UCHEGBU Governor, Hyacinth Alia of Benue State, has decried the high level of graduate unemployment in Nigeria and insisted that skill acquisition and entrepreneurship education remain critical to tackling the menace. Alia, who noted that his administration would give education top priority in Benue State, has also sought a…
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Chidimma UCHEGBU The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has approved N130,000,000.00 as a zonal intervention for each polytechnic in its 2023 intervention line, geared towards reinvigorating skills acquisition in polytechnics across the country. It said a total of N60,290,000,000.00 was allocated for Zonal Intervention for the year 2023 to all…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) says the Federal Government disbursed a total of N57,165,751,416.12 to states for teachers’ professional development programmes within the last 13 years. Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, made this known at the National Conference on Teacher Professional Development on Monday in…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Federal Government has banned underage children from participating in the National Common Entrance Examination for admission into the Unity Schools across the country. The government has accordingly directed the National Examination Council (NECO) to put strict measures in place to prevent underage persons from registering for the…
11th January, 2012 By Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu As Nigerians gathered with family and friends to celebrate the New Year, the federal government was baking a national cake wrapped in the scheme that would instantly make the New Year a bitter one. Barely had the public weaned itself from last…
Mike Omere The Director of Administration at United Nigeria Airlines Company Limited, Linus Awute, has been named among notable Nigerians who bagged national honours as approved by the federal government. Awute, a retired Federal Permanent Secretary, bagged the national honour of Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON). He…
It will be my duty to show them that there is more to life than the poverty, hunger, ignorance, disease, insecurity, and pot holes that, all these years, have become their daily realities. It will be my duty to continue to remind them that they are the offspring of those…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has disclosed that the results of the 2022 National Personnel Audit (NPA) for basic education institutions in the country are almost ready for release. Bobboyi stated this while fielding questions from newsmen during a one-day…
— Chidimma UCHEGBU The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that the sale of the 2023 Direct Entry e-Pin would close on Saturday, 26th May 2023, while registration of those who obtained the e-pin ends on Tuesday, 30th May 2023. A statement signed by Fabian Benjamin, Acting Director…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Joint Admissions and Matriculation (JAMB) has disclosed how it generated about N55 billion which it remitted to government coffers since Prof. Ishaq Oloyede assumed leadership of the organisation just as it again remitted N2billion as its interim surplus for the 2023 operating year. Speaking in a statement…