Chidimma UCHEGBU The National Universities Commission (NUC) has expressed its readiness to boost programmes aimed at improving the employability skills of Nigerian university graduates. Acting Executive Secretary of NUC, Dr. Chris Maiyaki, stated this in Abuja on Monday at the 2023 International Summer School and Conference of the African Centre…
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Chidimma UCHEGBU Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has called on the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) to help it transform the education sector of the state. The governor, who made the call during a visit to TETFund’s Executive Secretary, Arc Sonny Echono, on Friday in Abuja, said Zamfara is…
Chidimma UCHEGBU Former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Julius Okojie, has called on Nigerian leaders to make education at the basic and secondary levels free and compulsory. Okojie was speaking in Abuja on Friday at the launch of the Thomas Agnes Christianah Okojie (TACO) Charity Foundation, named after…
Chidimma UCHEGBU A member of the House of Representatives, Hon. Soli Sada, has commended the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, for the technological innovations deployed by the board for the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Sada, who gave the commendation…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and other Social Protection Development Partners including Save the Children, the Ministry of Finance, and others have teamed up to redefine Nigeria’s poverty profile by expanding social protection. At the opening ceremony of a two-day policy and programmatic dialogue workshop on Nigeria’s…
Chidimma UCHEGBU No fewer than 18 polytechnics lecturers drawn from across the country have successfully completed a training programme on Research for Impact (R4i) initiative put in place by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). Speaking at the closing ceremony of the training programme in Abuja on Friday, Executive Secretary…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has that it has come under massive attacks by fraudsters who seek to benefit from rubbishing its integrity. This is contained in a statement issued on Monday by its Ag. Director of Public Affairs, Abdulmumin Oniyangi. According to the statement, the fund…
Wasiu Shekoni, Lagos Chairman of United Nigeria Airlines Company Limited, Prof. Obiora Okonkwo, on Friday in Lagos reminded the Igbo people that the occasional brickbats with their Yoruba neighbours is uncalled for.Speaking in his remarks at the Second All Markets Conference of Ndigboamaka Progressive Markets Association at Festival Hotel in…
By Steve Oche An Abuja-based civil rights group, Worried Nigerians (WN) has called on the Federal Government, particularly the authorities of the Federal Ministry of Health, to rein in its staff identified to be frustrating peaceful service delivery at the Federal Neuropsychiatric Hospital, and its School of Post Basic Nursing,…
The Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Kogi state said it has uncovered a plot to abduct its governorship candidate, Alhaji Muritala Yakubu Ajaka, and frame him with trump-up charges with the aim of clamping him into detention and possibly liquidate him. This is contained in a statement signed by the…