Sonekan Advocates 25% of Budgetary Allocation to Education

December 11th, 2008
Former Head of Interim Government, Ernest Shonekan has advocated the allocation of 25 per cent federal and state budgets to education. Shonekan said unless attention is paid to education the vision of becoming one of the 20 ...

Senate Plans National Summit Over Deplorable State of Education

December 10th, 2008
Concerned by the continued decay of the educational sector in the country, the Senate plans to hold a national summit to find the way forward. Chairman, Senate Committee on Education, Joy Emordi, who disclosed this on Tuesday ...

Teachers to Write Exam for Registration with TRCN

November 26th, 2008
Teachers wishing to register with the Teachers' Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) are now to sit for a professional examination. Dr Steve Nwokocha, National Director, Professional Operations of TRCN, dropped this hint in Lagos when he called ...

NERDC Infuses Family Life Education into Curriculum by Frank Oke

November 7th, 2008
The Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC), has infused the Family Life HIV/AIDS Education (FLHE) into the nine-year basic education curriculum. Briefing newsmen in Enugu, the Executive Secretary of the council, Professor Godswill Obioma said the ...

V.C Calls for Improved Funding of Universities

November 4th, 2008
Chancellor of the University of Ibadan (UI), Professor Olufemi Bamiro, has called for better funding of federal universities. Addressing a news conference in Ibadan on the forthcoming 60th anniversary of the institution, Bamiro said the current situation in the universities called for urgent change of attitude by ...

Rep Calls for Review of Varsity Curriculum

October 31st, 2008
Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Industries, Solomon Agidani, has called for a review of the curriculum of universities to meet industrial requirement for gainful employment. Speaking at an orientation for Graduate Attachment Programme (GAP), in Makurdi, Agidani noted that most unemployed graduates lacked basic requirements needed ...

Civil Servants Volunteer to Teach in Bauchi

October 31st, 2008
More than 300 civil servants in Bauchi State have volunteered to teach in primary and secondary schools to make up for the dearth of teachers in the state. Governor Isa Yuguda, who disclosed this in Bauchi while ...

NABTEB Boss Canvasses Popularisation of Maths -Oge Okanu

October 28th, 2008
The Registrar of the National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB), Prof. David Awanbor, has charged the Mathematics Association of Nigeria (MAN) to explore ways of popularizing the teaching and learning of mathematics.  Awanbor made the appeal at the weekend in Benin when he hosted a ...

FG Boosts Qur’anic Education with N90m by Frank Oke

October 27th, 2008
The Federal Government has disbursed N90million to 15 Northern States for the implementation of the Qur’anic Integration Project aimed at giving formal education access to about 7 million children. The Minister of State for Education, Aishat Jubril Dukku  who disclosed this during the presentation of cheques to ...

Institute Urges FG to Review University Curricula by frank oke

October 24th, 2008
The Institute of Chartered Economists of Nigeria has called on the Federal Ministry of Education, to review the university curricula, in line with the trend in Science and Technology. The South-South Coordinator of the institute, Mr Friday ...