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Just In: Federal government launches committee to combat fake degrees amidst growing concerns

The Federal Government, via the Ministry of Education, is establishing an inter-ministerial committee today to address the issue of fake degrees. The ministry’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Ben Goong, made this known in a notice sent to journalists in Abuja. Education Minister Prof. Tahir Mamman will inaugurate the committee, responding to concerns raised […]

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BREAKING: Federal govt suspends accreditation of degree certificates from Benin, Togo

The Federal Government has announced the suspension of the evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from the neighbouring Benin Republic and Togo. The suspension followed an investigative report by an online newspaper, which unravelled a Cotonou-based University, which issued a degree certificate to an undercover Journalist within six weeks. In a statement on Tuesday, signed

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FG increases Unity schools’ fees to #100,000

The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Education has increased the school fees of new students into Federal Government Colleges otherwise known as Federal Unity Colleges to ₦100,000. This was contained in a directive from the Office of the Director of Senior Secondary Education Department of the Federal Ministry of Education, reference number ADF/120/DSSE/I,

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Breaking News: FG ignores ASUU, set to begin giving student loans in September

Federal Government has ignored the Academic staff union of universities ahead of the implementation and disbursement of student loans which will begin in September The bill has previously met stiff opposition from the academic union and student bodies such as the National Association of Nigerian Students and workers’ unions, who described it as an attempt

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Obasanjo tasks FG on need to invest in digital education

In commemoration of this year’s Children’s Day and to advocate the importance of digital competency among youngsters, wife of former President Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Mrs Bola Obasanjo, has charged the Federal Government to invest deliberately in students’ digital education in order to jump-start digital skill acquisition. Mrs Obasanjo made the remarks at the digital competency

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Nigeria enrols 3 million girls in secondary schools through AGILE project – Official

The federal government has enrolled three million girls in secondary schools across the country through the Adolescent Girls Initiative For Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) programme. The National Project Coordinator of AGILE, Amina Haruna, disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday at the launch of a National Campaign, tagged ‘Madubi’, to boost the enrollment of girls in

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FG begins payment of teachers’ withheld salaries, kwara state teacher confirms

The Nigerian Federal Government has begun to pay the salaries of teachers whose tenure was extended by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. Recall that In 2020, the president announced some incentives for teachers, including a new salary scale and an increase in their retirement age from 60 to 65 years. However, some of

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Adoption of Mother Tongue in Primary Schools: Expectations of Educators and Concerned Parents from Federal Government

Fafunwa strongly asserted that the colonial pattern of education has robbed the African child of inventiveness, originality and creativity, since they are being forced to think in English instead of in Yoruba, Hausa, Igbo or any other Nigerian language. The eminent scholar further emphasized not only the teaching of the mother tongue in schools, but

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School Feeding: Rivers Food Vendors Laud Federal Government

Food Vendors who involve in the school feeding exercise in Rivers State have lauded the federal government schools feeding programme in the state. The food vendors said that they had received funds from the Federal Government four times since the programme began last October. They disclosed this during a meeting with Dr. Emmanuel Attah-led school

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Minister of Education Adamu Adamu

We have not fixed date for school resumption – Education Minister

The Federal Ministry of Education has disbunked the news that the Federal Government had directed the reopening of schools. The ministry’s Director of Press, Ben Goong, disclosed this on Sunday 12 April, 2020. While warning Nigerians to disregard the news, Goong stated that there was no such directive from the minister, Adamu Adamu. “Everyone had

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Poly Students Win Fed Govt Scholarship

Two students of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State, have benefitted from the 2018/2019 Federal Government Scholarship for Students in Nigerian Public Tertiary Institutions. The two beneficiaries are Jaiyeola Sofiat Omoniyi an ND 2, Accountancy student and Olagoke Oladele Williams an HND 1, Mechanical Engineering student. Confirming this on behalf of the Minister of Education,

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FG postpones resumption of primary & secondary schools to Oct. 15th

The Federal Government has postponed the resumption of primary and secondary schools across the country to October 22nd, it has been announced. Primary and Secondary schools were supposed to resume on September 22nd but about two weeks, FG postponed it indefinitely to prevent an outbreak of the Ebola Viral Disease. They announced today that schools

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ASUU President Nasir Fagge and Supervising Minister of Education Nyeson Wike

Integrated payroll system’ll erase autonomy, ASUU insists

The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday vowed to resist the introduction of the Integrated Payroll Personnel System in the university system, describing the policy as counter-productive. The IPPIS, the union also said, would erase the tenets of autonomy in the nation’s universities. The Federal Government on Friday insisted that there was no going

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