An estimated ₦22 billion investment in girls’ education could prevent over 327,000 child marriages, avert more than 35,000 adolescent pregnancies, and save thousands of young lives in Northern Nigeria, experts revealed during a high-level stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja. Education specialists, government officials, and development advocates warned that failing to protect adolescent girls from dropping out …
Rivers State Governor, Siminalayi Fubara, has yielded to mounting pressure from the State House of Assembly led by Martins Amaewhule following concerns raised about the condition of public schools in the state. The Assembly, during its sitting last week Thursday, criticised the deteriorating state of primary and secondary schools, expressing dissatisfaction with what members described …
The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), Comrade Joe Ajaero, has called for the unionisation of academic staff in private universities across the country, urging the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to initiate conversations that would bring lecturers in privately owned institutions under the same union umbrella. Ajaero made the call on Sunday …
— Union Accuses Officials of Treating Education as Non-Priority, Warns of Impending Showdown Over Salary Dispute The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Chris Piwuna, has accused the Federal Government of failing to prioritize education, saying officials do not regard the sector’s challenges as national concerns demanding collective responsibility. Speaking during …
The Federal Ministry of Education has unveiled a new digital platform designed to promote transparency, accountability, and efficiency in Nigeria’s tertiary education system. Known as the Federal Tertiary Institutions Governance and Transparency Platform (FTIGTP), the initiative will allow real-time tracking of funding, performance, and resource allocation across universities, polytechnics, and colleges of education. The Minister …
Scores of University of Jos dental students have taken to the streets to protest the non-accreditation of their course, which has resulted in them spending over ten years in school without graduating. The students, on Wednesday, blocked the university gate at its Permanent site, singing solidarity songs and carrying placards with different inscriptions which read, …
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has extended the 2025 admission deadline for all public universities across Nigeria from October 31 to November 17, 2025. The extension, announced on Sunday via a statement on JAMB’s official X handle, follows appeals from university administrators and recent accreditation exercises affecting the ongoing admission process in several …
A delegation of the management of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday walked out on the House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education Examination Bodies over media presence at a public hearing in Abuja. The public hearing, organised by the committee, was to investigate the 2023/2024 budget performance of JAMB and revenue …
History was made in the medical training field on Wednesday, as Chrisland University, Abeokuta, Ogun State, presented and awarded the first Doctor of Physiotherapy in Nigeria and West Africa at its 7th convocation ceremony. Also, Popoola Israel Oladayo, a graduate of Criminology and Security Studies from the College of Arts, Management and Social Sciences, was …
A new wave of hope is sweeping through Nigeria’s public schools as the Create That Change Development Initiative (CCDI), in partnership with the Embassy of Switzerland, on Wednesday commissioned new toilet and library facilities at LEA Primary School, Sheritti, Kabusa, in Abuja, marking a fresh push to restore dignity, hygiene, and learning standards among pupils …
