As part of efforts to improve the standard of education, Nigeria and Ghana are to exchange teachers and students Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Ghana, Mr Musiliu Obanikoro has said.  Obanikoro, who spoke at the 2008 annual Ghana-Nigeria Business Summit with the theme "Promoting Trade and Investment" said the High Commission would soon conclude plans on the programme but did not say when the exchange programme would begin. He said that Nigeria and Ghana would use the opportunity to understudy each other’s education system and learn from ...

Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Tuesdday rejected post Monotechnic, Polytechnics and Colleges of Education Examination (MPCE), conducted by some National Diploma (ND) and Nigeria Certificate in Education (NCE)-awarding institution across the country.  Dibu Ojerinde, the Registrar of JAMB who disclosed this in Abuja during a consultative meeting of the policy committee on admissions to ND and NCE-awarding institutions, said the exercise was not acceptable. "Permit me to express the Board’s dismay at some ND and NCE-awarding institutions that conduct ...

  Officials of British International School Lagos have demanded a N11.7 million ($100,000) from a Ghanaian-based helicopter charter service firm, which accidentally landed in the school premises last Friday. However, the Director-General of the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority (NCAA), Dr. Harold Demuren, who confirmed the incident, said that the matter had been resolved. He said hat the release of the aircraft by the school was the only-outstanding issue. ‘’Yes, it happened. The helicopter landed in a wrong place, the school is holding to it after the State Security Service (SSS), and the Nigerian Civil aviation Authority ...

Ordinarily, children should help out in the house but the more complex chores should attract a reward; in this case, money.  Teach them a craft that will help them earn some money. The motive here is not the amount of money generated from the venture but the sense of accomplishment and responsibility that comes with it. It also cultivates an entrepreneurial spirit from an early age which will serve them well in life.  When you engage teenagers in money making exercises, you are giving them the opportunity of trying out ...

Primary school teachers in Akwa Ibom State have been called upon to see their service as a sacrifice to humanity and therefore be committed to their duties in order to lay a solid foundation for the educational advancement of the young ones in the state. The Director of Administration and Supplies, State Universal Basic Education Board, (SUBEB), Mr. Ekanabasi Ubong, made the appeal at a meeting with education secretaries and chairmen of school management committee held at the SUBEB multi-purpose Conference Hall, Idongesit Nkanga Secretariat ...

The Niger State Governor, Dr. Babangida Aliyu, disclosed in Minna yesterday at an interactive session with Chairpersons and Councilors of the 25 local government areas and 274 wards in the state that a legislation that would prevent parents from withdrawing their female children from school is under-way. Aliyu explained that when the law is enacted, it would become an offence for any parent or guardian to withdraw their female children from school for the purpose of early marriage or any other reason....

Top Ibo born music artistes Obiora aka Obiwon, Mr. Kool, Dat Nigga Raw, and Ill bliss (aka Dat Ibo Boy) are pooling talents for a good cause. Headlining this year's Now Muzik's annual Rhythm Riot Tour, they will go on the road throughout the south-eastern zone of Nigeria, not just to spread the word of peace, love and unity, but also to advise young Ibo kids to Stay In School and finish their education . This tour is themed: IBO BOYS UNITED 4 EDUCATION and ...

The Governors' Forum yesterday unanimously agreed to pay a 27.5 percent increment as benchmark to all the teachers in all 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The Governors though acknowledged the need for payment of “specific allowances” to teachers, however stated that such “teaching inducement allowance” should be implemented for professional teachers only. They however noted that the Federal Government’s refusal to succumb to the NUT’s demand was due to the “Principle of Federalism”....

The Yobe State Government has approved the release of over N31 million for the training of 257 teachers in the Sciences and Mathematics at the National Mathematical Centre (NMC), Abuja. The training and retraining of the teachers is to produce more qualified science and maths teachers which has been identified by Yobe State Economic And Social Summit Group (YESSG) as the main antidote to the state’s development and delivery of education services in the state. Already a total of 100 teachers have completed their retraining in mathematics at the NMC . ...

To inculcate good moral behaviuor in the country, the Ogun State Governor Gbenga Daniel has called for the return of schools to missionaries. The Governor, in a statement signed by his Press Officer, Mr. Kehinde Onasanya said that “all the references that we can make to good behaviour in schools seems to have been terminated when the missionaries left.”  Daniel, who spoke at the 60th birthday of the Archbishop of Lagos, Archbishop Ephraim Ademowo, held at the Muson Centre Lagos, also stressed the need for partnership between the church ...