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The Ogun Department of Industry, Trade and Investment plan to take advantage of the government’s current policy to encourage the use of Adire’s clothing in schools by setting up a clothing institute in fiscal 2021 that will allow entrepreneurs to produce more to export duty-free products to the United States under the Act. -The African…
To promote economic, political, and international relations with neighboring countries, the Ogun State government has announced it will prioritize teaching French in schools in the state. Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, represented by the Governor’s Special Adviserr for Primary and Secondary Education, Mrs. Ronke Soyombo, who hinted this on the French International Day 2020 organized by the Ministry of Idi-Aba,…
Over 34,685 people have been tested for coronavirus (COVID-19) across all the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) camps across the country. The Director-General of the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, confirmed this on Monday at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 in Abuja. He told reporters that…
Some unknown gunmen on Wednesday murdered Engr. Mufutau Olayemi, a lecturer at D.S Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic, Itori, Ogun State. Olayemi, who is Head, Department of Electrical Engineering at the polytechnic, was shot dead by the suspected assassins on his way home from a conference. He was shot several times while his assailants left without removing…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday, told students and parents to not expect suspension of its ongoing strike anytime soon. The union’s Abuja Zonal Coordinator, Prof. Theophilus Lagi gave the announcement during a press briefing in Abuja and also told lecturers to seek alternative means of survival. Lagi, who accused the federal…
Tanzanian authorities say they have arrested five pregnant students so that they can help with information on the men who impregnated them. The girls aged between 16 and 19 were arrested as part of a crackdown on child pregnancies. The District Commissioner Sebastian Waryuba said that the pregnant students were arrested last week. They were…
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The Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps (TRACE) has said that, as part of its campaign efforts in 2018, safety advocacy would be re-introduce in school curriculum, in all tiers of education, in the State. The Corps Commander, Cdr Seni Ogunyemi who disclosed this during an interview with pressmen at his office in Abeokuta,…
For the former Vice- Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof. Rahmon Bello, the dance may just have started. He has been celebrated by several groups and many people after leaving office about two months ago. But some top shots in his Yewa, Ogun-West base, seem to have a grander idea of what should mark…
The National Examinations Council, (NECO) yesterday released results of the November /December Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE, after only 38 days of conducting the examinations. This is great a departure from the past during which results were released between 80 and 90 days after the last paper which had always truncated the admission of successful…
