A group of armed men believed to be kidnappers, has shot and killed Professor Yinka Olomojobi, a law professor at Babcock University in Ilishan-Remo, Ogun State. The attackers also abducted two other individuals during the incident, which occurred on Friday in the Iperu area. The kidnappers, according to reports, intended to abduct Olomojobi, but he […]
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Teachers in the Ogun State public primary schools have been advised to simplify their teaching techniques by making use of simple illustration and diagrams for easy assimilation. The Executive Chairman, Ogun State Universal Basic Education Board, (Ogun SUBEB), Dr. Femi Majekodunmi made the call during a monitoring exercise to some Public Primary Schools in Ijebu
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Parents and guardians would struggle to send their wards back to school as the ripple effects of petrol subsidy removal take a toll on their wallets forcing some either to take their wards out of school or consider cheaper ones. The petrol subsidy removal means that the market forces of demand and supply determine pump
A one-storey building with 10 blocks of classrooms has collapsed at the Agbado District Comprehensive High School in Ifo Local Government Area of Ogun State. The building collapsed on Saturday afternoon during heavy rainfall, leaving the community in shock. Locals said pupils and teachers might have been victims if the structure had fallen during school
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Speaking on the state of education in Ifo local government, the renowned educator says back in the day, children in the community started school late and they used that factor as a means of influence to intimidate, woo and disrespect their teachers. Chief Bode highlighted that there is no fear, no concern, no eagerness to
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The Ogun State Government has announced that the 2023 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), for students in Public and Private Junior Secondary Schools in the State, has been scheduled for Monday, June 19 to Monday, June 26, 2023. According to a press release signed by the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Mrs.
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The Ogun State College of Nursing Sciences in Nigeria has conducted an entrance examination, with a total of 4,673 candidates vying for admission. According to a report, only 350 successful candidates will be granted admission. Kayode Oladehinde, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, disclosed this information while overseeing the examination process at the
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Parts of Ogun State, one of Nigeria’s six southwestern states, are dominated by traders and motorcyclists. They are a mix of Yoruba, Igbo and local Fulani herders from poor backgrounds. Inside these communities, school children roam the streets during school hours, public schools lack enough teaching personnel, parents watch their children roam the streets, teachers
Less than one week after the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) read the riot act to rogue website operators, a member of the fraudster was nabbed on Thursday during the ongoing May/June 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for posting question online. The suspect, who was arrested in Abeokuta is also a proprietor
Stakeholders have been advised to support polytechnic education in order to produce more competent and reliable technologists that can help the country to bridge the technological gap and create employment opportunities through their skills. The acting Rector of Ogun State Owned DS Adegbenro ICT Polytechnic, Ewekoro made this known during the institution’s 17th Matriculation ceremony.
Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has disclosed plan to change the uniform in the state’s public schools. While disclosing this on Thursday November 12, 2020, the governor stated that adire fabric would become the official school uniform in all public schools in the state starting from next term. The governor also called on the Federal
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Ogun State Government has asked schools in the state to reopen for the first term of 2020/2021 session Monday, September 21, 2020. Sources revealed that the state government, had also reduced and grouped the hours for primary and secondary school respectfully. In a statement signed by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Kunle Somorin
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Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun has ordered free Covid-19 test for returning SS3 boarding students at all government laboratories conducting the test in the state. Governor Abiodun issued the order on Monday August 3, 2020, after consultation with stakeholders in the State’s Health sector. “After reviewing these developments, I have today immediately directed that the
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Public schools teachers in Ogun State have given the state’s Governor, Dapo Abiodun, some conditions to fulfill before the reopening of schools in the state. While unveiling the conditions on Tuesday July 7, 2020, at the union’s Secretariat in Abeokuta, the state Chairman of the Nigerian Union of Teachers, Comrade Titilope Adebanjo, insisted that those
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The National Association of Ogun State Students has commended the commitment of the state Governor, Prince Dapo Abiodun, to education. This was disclosed in a statement released on Thursday May 28, 2020 by the National President of the Association, Comrade Gbemileke Ogunronmbi. Ogunronmbi described Governor Abiodun as the most student-friendly Governor in the history of
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The government of Ogun has launched a DigiClass. This is the first of its kind in Nigeria. This is to aid learning even as schools are shut down as a result of the pandemic spread of the COVID-19. See details of the DigiClass below: Kindly visit the YouTube page for more info. Also, you can
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Students in Ayetoro-Itele Community in Ogun State have reportedly raped a Biology teacher to coma The news of the criminal act broke out on the early hours of Thursday 9th January, 2020 when the teacher’s neighbour called the local police after he found the man helpless and near-lifeless in his room. According to the teacher’s
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The indegenes of Ogun state have reacted to the introduction of N3,700 levy by the State Government for pupils in the state-owned secondary schools. The Ogun State Government had ordered parents and guardians of students in public secondary schools and technical colleges in the state to pay a compulsory levy of N3,700 upon resumption for
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