The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) and the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) have announced plans to collaborate to increase youth technology adoption and awareness in Nigeria. The Chief General of the NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi who communicated the Organization’s readiness to team up with the Corps during a politeness call by the group drove by the Chief General of the NYSC, Brig Gen. Yushau Dogara Ahmed reiterated that NITDA, which is the foundation for increasing awareness and adoption of emerging technologies, will be more than willing to tweak the collaboration that is already in place to advance the…

Using ASUU as an instance, the cleric lamented how members of the union would help politicians rig elections and thereafter turn around to complain about the bad condition of public universities, saying it’s as a result of wrong attitude. He said, “Wrong attitude can keep you from entering the promised land. Sometimes we can pray very well, shake mountains with prayer but our attitude is what keeps us from going into the promised land. “Look at professors, we will have ASUU strike for almost one year, but professors will come and read riot acts and may want to go on…

Up to 1,560 Corps members have been deployed to Bayelsa State as part of National Service ‘A’ Stream II in 2023. Members of the corps are held at the Permanent NYSC Orientation Camp, Boro Town, Kaiama Community, in the Kolokuma/Opokuma Local Government Area of ​​the State. During the official inauguration and swearing-in ceremony presided over by Acting State Chief Justice, Judge Maltide Abrakasa Ayemieye, Bayelsa Governor Douye Diri ensured the full security and well-being of the Agency’s members. enough. Represented by State Secretary of State, SSG and NYSC State Council Chairman, Alabo Gideon Ekeuwei, said the state government will…

As food prices continue to soar in Nigeria, the Vice Chancellor of Osun State University (UNIOSUN), Professor Odundayo Clement Adebooye, said Africa’s most populous country cannot escape this challenge only if it is in the interests of women. Women farmers, sellers and producers are interested. included in national policy. The donation was revealed on Thursday during the opening ceremony of Osun State University’s 2023 Women’s Day, held at Olagunsoye Oyinlola Uditorium, Osogbo Main Campus. The Deputy Prime Minister noted that it seems that female farmers are pro-Nigerian and their interest is not included in the national plan. Speaking about previous…

Concerned about the situation in Sudan, the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) in Diaspora has asked the Nigerian government to immediately evacuate all Nigerian students in Sudan. President of the National Association of Nigerian Students in Diaspora, Abdulrazak Abubakar, said it feared for the lives of students in Sudan going by the stance of the Federal Government that it waited for a ceasefire before commencing evacuation. Pending the commencement of evacuation, in a statement, Abdulrazak admonished all students to stay indoors. He, however, assured that the NANS Diaspora was in constant touch with the relevant quarters to hasten the…

The Kwara State University (KWASU) has confirmed the death of Ajeigbe Yaqub, the Human Kinetics and Health Education Department head and acting sports director. A statement by the registrar, Kikelomo Sallee, on Monday, said Mr Yaqub died in his sleep. “As the University mourns this loss of a committed member of staff, we pray Allah forgives all his shortcomings and admits him into jannatul firdaus,” the university statement said. “May Allah also console his family, friends and the University Community.”

The disability community in Kaduna State on Tuesday appealed for equal access to educational facilities and learning materials in state-owned tertiary institutions. The community made the appeal in Kaduna during a one-day media chat on inclusive education organised by the Kaduna State chapter of the Joint National Associations of Persons with Disabilities (JONAPWD). The media engagement was supported by the Coalition of Associations for Leadership, Peace, Empowerment & Development (CALPED) and the Kaduna State Disability Affairs Board. Suleiman Abdulazeez, state chairman of JONAPWD, said that despite an inclusive education policy in the state, most of the state-owned tertiary institutions were…

On Monday, the Ghanaian capital Accra formally took over as the 2023 World Book Capital of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) from the Mexican city of Guadalajara. “Books and reading are essential to us all, as a source of information, questions and emotions, to get us close with the world,” director-general of UNESCO, Audrey Azoulay, said at the launching ceremony for the 2023 World Book Capital along with Ghanaian President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. He added that the choice of Accra as the 2023 World Book Capital was a call for action to support reading among…

JAMB has rescheduled examination for candidates whose technical challenges prevented them from writing the Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Tuesday. The board’s spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the declaration in Abuja on Tuesday after the board’s management meeting at the close of the first day of the examination. “Following the announcement, candidates who for technical reasons could not take the examination are to print new examination notifications early on April 26 to know their rescheduled sessions. “It is to be noted that about 100 centres out of the 708 centres participating in the 2023 UTME experienced technical challenges that…

JAMB has rescheduled examination for candidates whose technical challenges prevented them from writing the Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) on Tuesday. The board’s spokesman, Dr Fabian Benjamin, made the declaration in Abuja on Tuesday after the board’s management meeting at the close of the first day of the examination. “Following the announcement, candidates who for technical reasons could not take the examination are to print new examination notifications early on April 26 to know their rescheduled sessions. “It is to be noted that about 100 centres out of the 708 centres participating in the 2023 UTME experienced technical challenges that…