Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba State has said his administration would tackle all the challenges presently bedevilling schools spread across the state. He stated this on Wednesday when he paid a surprise visit to some selected schools in Jalingo, the Taraba State capital. Some of the schools visited include; Nyamusala Primary School and the College of Nursing and Midwifery. The governor who also stormed the State Secretariat and State Specialist Hospital, said the aim of the visit was for his administration to have first-hand knowledge of the activities of the institutions. While interacting with both the teachers and the students,…

The President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Professor Emmanuel Osodeke has advised the Federal Government to consider giving grants instead of loans to Nigerian students. Speaking on Channels TV Sunday Politics, Professor Osodeke said “the idea of student loan came in 1972 and there was a bank established like this. People took loans and never paid. “In 1993, the military instituted a student loan baled and in 2004 the law was domesticated but within one year so we are looking to see how this new law will fare. “The one billion which will be deposited in the bank…

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has insisted that Nigeria has no subsidy. The President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, spoke at the Alex Ekweme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike, Ikwo in Ebonyi State. Osodeke wondered why Nigeria would be exporting crude oil for the past 70 years and can’t refine the product at home. During his inauguration, President Bola Tinubu announced that “subsidy is gone.” A declaration that led to a hike in price and a shortage of the product across the country. But speaking on Wednesday, Osodeke said: “We don’t believe that there is fuel subsidy. “You can’t be…

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund has approved N130 million for each polytechnic as zonal intervention in its 2023 intervention line. The Director of Infrastructure of the Fund, Buhari Mika’Ilu, who confirmed the development at the TETFund/NBTE sensitization workshop on the 2023 Zonal Intervention on Skills for Rectors and Directors of Skills in Beneficiary Polytechnics in Abuja on Tuesday, said the fund would be geared towards reinvigorating skills acquisition in polytechnics across the country. Mika’Ilu said the intervention was to consolidate the efforts of the National Board for Technical Education in increasing the capacities of polytechnics to deliver on their mandate.…

Adekunle Agboola, a 200-level student in the Faculty of Engineering’s Department of Metallurgical and Material Engineering, was killed on Saturday while attempting to rescue his friend’s phone from robbers, according to a statement released by the University of Lagos (UNILAG) on Tuesday morning. Adejoke Alaga-Ibraheem, UNILAG Principal Assistant Registrar, Communication Unit, sent a message of condolence to the family, expressing regret for the incident and stating that the police are looking into it. “It was with heavy heart that the Management of the University of Lagos, received the sad news of the death of Mr Al Ameen Adekunle Agboola, a…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that registration will close on Tuesday, May 30, 2023, and Direct Entry (DE) e-PIN sales will end on Saturday, May 26, 2023. Dr. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s Acting Director of Public Affairs, issued a statement urging all genuine DE candidates who have not yet registered to do so to do so because the Board would not consider any further extensions. The assertion reviewed that the 2023 DE enrollment, which started in February 2023, was reached out for all wanting possibility to enlist and was, at a point, suspended to work with the…

Malam Suleiman Ibrahim, the Coordinator of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Kano State, gave serving corps members the task of embracing Skills Acquisition Training during and after their service year in order to become self-reliant. The exhibition of treasures produced by serving corps members under the skills acquisition training program took place on Wednesday at the NYSC Secretariat along Gwarzo Road, Kano. Ibrahim gave the task at that time. He said abilities obtaining preparing is an element of the public youth administration conspire. The Coordinator said that over 20,000 youth corps members were being mobilized annually, but that…

As part of the Ogun State Economic Transformation Project (OGSTEP), an intervention group has educated more than 120,000 students in 91 secondary schools across the state to avoid all forms of gender-based violence, including sexual harassment, bullying, and child abuse, in an effort to improve society. This was stated in a statement provided to journalists over the weekend by OGSTEP Communication Officer Mrs. Simbo Olayinka. During the sensitization tour at Ijebu Ode, Mrs. Mosunmola Owoodunsi, the project coordinator, said that the goal of the intervention program was to educate secondary school students about the support services available in cases of…

A national blockchain technology implementation steering committee has been established by the Nigerian federal government. The advisory group was introduced yesterday by the Pastor of Correspondences and Computerized Economy, Teacher Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami at the authority send off of the Public Approach on Blockchain Innovation. The strategy is pointed toward advancing the reception of blockchain innovation in Nigeria and to situate the country as a main player in the worldwide blockchain environment. While sending off the Arrangement for the benefit of Central Legislature of Nigeria, Teacher Pantami reviewed that the excursion of Blockchain Innovation formally began in Nigeria on…

The Tertiary Training Trust Asset (TETFund) has uncovered that over N18.83 billion has been spent in arrangement of actual foundation mediations somewhere in the range of 2011 and 2021 in Benue Tertiary Establishments. Sunday Echonu, Executive Secretary of TETFund, made the announcement on Thursday while he was delivering a speech at Benue State University in Makurdi for the Commissioning of six TETFund-funded projects. The Leader Secretary made sense of that the Central Government, through TETFund has made tremendous interests in the arrangement of essential framework to help educating, learning and examination in the country’s public tertiary foundations spread all around…