Nasir El-Rufai, who they seem to have issues with, is not on the ballot. Southern Kaduna should and can do business with the APC governorship candidate, Uba Sani like Isaiah Balat did with Makarfi which laid the foundation for the several appointments the area enjoyed. By Danjuma Musa It is…
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Chidimma UCHEGBU The National Examination Council (NECO) has said it received 490 requests from 50 countries to authenticate its results. NECO Registrar, Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi, disclosed this at a one-day retreat on the State of Education in Nigeria organised by the Education Correspondent Association of Nigeria (ECAN) in Abuja on…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Arch. Sonny Echono has urged the Research and Development Standing Committee (RSDC) to design an agenda that can fast-track the research process in Nigeria. Echono stated this when he met with the leadership of the Committee, led by its chairman,…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Girls’ Education Programme Phase 3 (GEP3) has formally come to an end after attracting no fewer than 1.5 million girls to school in its 10 years of existence in Nigeria. The programme, which was initiated in response to the low enrolment of girls in school in the…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Federal Government on Thursday formally announced the reintroduction of history as a stand-alone subject in the basic education curriculum in Nigeria 13 years after its abolition. Also, a total of 3,700 history teachers have also been shortlisted for the first round of training for enhanced teaching of…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said that it recorded a shortfall of N68 billion in its revenue collection for 2021 used for its operations in the 2022 fiscal year. The Executive Secretary of the fund, Mr Sonny Echono, disclosed this at a One-Day Meeting of the…
Chidimma Uchegbu No fewer than 11,629 candidates participated in the second batch of the 2022 Teachers Professional Qualifying Examination conducted by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, (TRCN), on Saturday, nationwide. TRCN’s Director of Examination and Licencing, Dr Jacinta Ogboso, who monitored the exercise at SASCON International School Maitama, Abuja,…
CHIDIMMA UCHEGBU-Abuja. The Chairman of Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG), Mr. Niyi Yusuf, has said that the gender parity in Nigeria is not recovering as indicated in the Global Gender Gap Report 2022. Yusuf made this known in his opening remarks at the ‘Gender and Inclusion Summit 2022’ in…
CHIDIMMA UCHEGBU-Abuja The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, has called for collaboration among the three tiers of government toward the development of the creative industry in Nigeria. The Minister made the call in Lagos on Wednesday at a special session of the UNWTO Global Conference on Linking…
Leaders of town unions in Idemili North and Idemili South local government areas of Anambra state have thrown their weight behind presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and his running mate, Sen. Ifeanyi Okowa pledging to work for their victory in next February polls. Speaking…