Education

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has advised institutions of higher learning to set up rehabilitation centres for students who test positive to hard drugs. The Director, Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi, gave the advice during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday …

NYSC . file photo No fewer than 9,100 corps members have been mobilised to the seven states in the North-West amid rising insecurity in the region which has led to the murder of at least 189 persons and the abduction of 376 persons in Zamfara and Kaduna states alone. Across …

The Nursing and Midwifery Council of Nigeria has approved a college status for the Bayelsa State School of Nursing and Midwifery. The NMCN Secretary General/Registrar, Dr. Farouk Abubakar, who led the accreditation team to the institution, disclosed this when the council visited Governor Douye Diri in Government House, Yenagoa, on …

The management of the University of Lagos says hostels were shut down to prevent “escalation” of coronavirus cases in the institution. In a statement on Thursday, the institution confirmed that “some students tested positive for COVID-19”. It, however, noted that the affected students have been isolated after contact-tracing. OSBC had …

The management of the University of Lagos has shut down the student hostels over reported cases of coronavirus on the campus. Also, the management also approved that lectures for the rest of the semester should be delivered virtually with effect from 26th July 2021. The decision was reached at an …

The Senate of the University of Lagos may shut the institution’s hostels after its emergency meeting on Wednesday, it has been reliably gathered. Sources in the Senate told newsmen that the meeting was summoned to take a decision on the COVID-19 situation in the school. “It should be a short …

The Governor of Jigawa State, Muhammad Badaru, has received approval from President Muhammadu Buhari on the establishment of a university of technology in the state. This was disclosed on Wednesday by the Special Assistant to the Governor on New Media, Auwal Sankara, in a statement titled ‘New University of Federation, …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Jos Chapter on Saturday said it would appeal a N5 million judgment awarded a student against one of its members by a Jos Federal High Court. Dr Lazarus Maigoro, ASUU Chairman, University of Jos, made the pronouncement in a press release …

The Interim Administrator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Col. Milland Dikio (retd.), said he was stunned by the discovery of huge misapplication of human and material resources upon his assumption office. According to him, a quality education-driven survey he carried out on the types of schools that beneficiaries of the …

The Lagos House of Assembly on Monday debated two bills that proposed the establishment of the University of Education and that of Science and Technology. The bills, which scaled through the second reading, yesterday, were committed into the House Committee on Education (Tertiary), which was asked to report back in …