Ogun State, Nigeria, World News & Stories
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Johannesburg – Today the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) will host a virtual dialogue with the Ministry of Health (MoH) and the Ministry of Education (MoE) and support security and the openness of the COVID-19 School. For the first time, representatives from two…
More bandits were heard yesterday attacking educational institutions to disrupt education. According to the United States, the school environment must be supportive and those that are raiding the institution must be held accountable for their actions. The US Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said America would help Nigeria protect children in…
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has set a new date for the upcoming 2021 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) into Federal Unity Colleges from May 29 to June 5. This is contained in a statement by Mr Azeez Sani, NECO Head of Information and Public Relations Division in Abuja on Wednesday.He said that registration of…
“We’re Fair To All”– Omole, panel chairman Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Monday, received the report of the six-member special visitation panel on the appointment of the 9th substantive Vice-Chancellor (VC) of the Lagos State University (LASU). The panel, chaired by former VC of the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, Prof. Bamitale Omole,…
School teachers number over 2,000 in the Ogun State have benefited from a-day training on Programming in Python and Artificial Intelligence. The Learn Coding event which held at Hubert Ogunde Hall, Kuto, Abeokuta, was co-organised by the Bureau of Information Technology, in collaboration with Data Science Nigeria (DSN), Lead Resources, Computer Teachers Association of Nigeria…
It is no longer news that Ogun State is not only the educational capital of Nigeria, but also the intellectual melting pot in the country. The rare feats displayed by some outstanding teachers and learners who are of Ogun State stocks, displayed their intellectual prowess at various examinations, lent credence to the fact that, education…
The leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has said it is awaiting the release of the N40 billion earned allowance the Federal Government promised the union, 12 days after it called off the nine-month strike. The government, it said, has also failed to continue payment of the withheld salaries of its members…
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…
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…
