Mohammed Wurno Sokoto State Government has handed over 20 Hilux vans and 710 motorcycles to the newly established Community Guard Corps in the state. The Special adviser to the Governor on Security matters, retired Col. Abdul Usman handed over the vehicles and motorcycles to the Commanders of the 13 local…
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Aliyu Wada The Sokoto State Government has dismissed orchestrated reports accusing it is spending huge sums of money to rehabilitate 25 boreholes across some communities in the state. Speaking in a statement signed by Abubakar Bawa, Press Secretary to Governor Aliyu Sokoto, the state government said the reports bothered on…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Federal Government has called on the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) Board of Trustees and the governing councils of some federal tertiary institutions to leverage their expertise to drive significant improvements in quality and performance across educational establishments. The Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, stated this…
By Emmanuel Ado Shafi’u Umar Tureta, cannot by any stretch of imagination or definition be defined or addressed as an activist contrary to the utter falsehoods being peddled by Amnesty International(AI) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) which has never hidden its avowed determination to make Sokoto State ungovernable…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Registrar/ Chief Executive, National Examinations Council (NECO), Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, has been elected into the Executive Council of the Association for Educational Assessment in Africa (AEAA). Prof. Wushishi was elected as the West Africa Representative in the Executive Council at the just concluded 40th Conference of…
CHIDIMMA UCHEGBU Representatives of the Federal Government led by the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, will meet on Monday with the officials of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other relevant stakeholders to iron out issues of interest to all parties. This follows a notice of strike…
CHIDIMMA UCHEGBU Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed, on Friday, that over 22,500 Nigerians are parading fake certificates obtained from Benin Republic and Togo between 2019 and 2023. According to the Minister, over 21,600 obtained the certificates from unaccredited universities in Benin Republic within the time frame, while about…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said that the onus of disclosing details of admissions made outside the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS), lies only on university administrations. The board made this clarification against the backdrop of students thronging its offices to clarify admission status. Speaking in…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja A member of the Senate Committee on Defence, Senator Ned Munir Nwoko, has said that Nigeria’s defence industry has the capacity to drive economic growth if managed well . Senator Nwoko said this in Abuja at the Defence Industries Corporation of Nigeria (DICON) 60th Anniversary and…
CHIDIMMA UCHEGBU The Federal Ministry of Education has announced the release of the 2024/2025 admission list for Junior Secondary School One (JSS1) across the 115 Federal Unity Colleges. The announcement followed the successful conduct of the Common Entrance Examination into the colleges. The ministry said it was “delighted to release…