Category: education
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Drone student inventor to get Kogi govt. support, says commissioner
The Kogi State Government has pledged to support a student, Mr Adebayo Sunday, a graduate of Kogi State College of Education (Technical), Kabba, who invented drones. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr. Wemi Jones, gave the assurance while interacting with the young inventor in his office in Lokoja, on Tuesday. According to…
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AFIT matriculates 1,136 students, warns against antisocial activities
The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), on Tuesday in Kaduna, matriculated 1,136 students for the 2020/2021 academic session. Our correspondent reports that 968 of the students were absorbed for degree programmes and 168 for diploma courses. The Commandant of AFIT, AVM Musbau Olatunji, warned the students against cultism, hooliganism, examination malpractice and all forms…
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Bayelsa Govt. urges labour unions to shelve planned strike
The Bayelsa Government has appealed to labour unions in the state-owned tertiary institutions not to embark on their planned strike, saying efforts were underway to address their demands.The state Deputy Governor, Mr Lawrence Ewhrudjakpo, made the appeal on Tuesday, at a meeting with the representatives of the various unions under the aegis of the Higher…
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NCF to educate over 2000 youths to champion ecosystem restoration
The Nigerian Conservation Foundation (NCF) in Lagos has announced plans to educate over 2000 youths to champion ecosystem restoration. “There have been consistent galvanized efforts by the global community towards ecosystem restoration since the declaration of 2021–2030, as the Decade of Ecosystem Restoration by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA). “In line with this, the…
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Forum Chair urges parents to support proper education of their children
The Chairman, The Bells University Parents’ Forum (BUPF), Ota, Ogun, Mr Rotimi Dosunmu, has advised parents to support the institution’s vision of giving sound education to their children and also properly moulding their character. Dosunmu gave the advice in an interview with our correspondent on Monday in Ota. He urged parents not to limit their…
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FUOYE gets NUC’s full accreditation for 6 academic programmes
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has approved full accreditation for six academic programmes at the Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE). The FUOYE management announced this on Monday, in a statement jointly signed by the Chief Information Officer, Mr Foluso Ogunmodede and Mr Wole Balogun, the Special Adviser on Media Matters to the university’s Vice Chancellor, Prof.…
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Nasarawa varsity tasks Nigerians on entrepreneurship
The Vice-Chancellor, Nasarawa State University, Keffi, Prof. Suleiman Mohammed, on Thursday urged students and other Nigerians to embrace entrepreneurship skills to be self-reliant. He said that embracing such skills would enable them to contribute their quota to the development of the country. Mohammed made the remark at the entrepreneurship development programme and exhibition of products by the…
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Kaduna State develops education information management system
The Kaduna State Government says it has developed Education Management Information System as part of efforts to digitise the education sector. The Commissioner of Education, Dr Shehu Muhammad, stated this in Kaduna on Wednesday, at the training of 100 principals of secondary schools and teachers, to test-run the application. Muhammad explained that after the training,…