Imo govt suspends school principals over alleged extortion

The Imo State Government has suspended some Secondary School principals in the state, for indulging in collection of illegal fees from parents.
The Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mrs Gertrude Ego Oduka, stated this in a release yesterday and signed by her Public Relations Officer, PRO, Ofoleta App-Jonnie, A.M.
The affected schools included, Community Secondary School Orogwe, Government Technical College, Owerri and Emmanuel College, also in Owerri. The commissioner also directed the suspended principals to handover relevant documents in their possessions to their subordinates.
According to the release, “ The commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mrs Gertrude Ego Oduka, has announced the immediate suspension of the Principal of the Community

NYSC announces plans for 2015 Batch B passing out

Simeon Bankole, the Chief Press Officer of the National Youth Service Corps in Oyo State, has said that the 2015 Batch B passing out ceremony in the state would be in two phases.
Bankole told newsmen in Ibadan, Oyo State on Wednesday that the passing out ceremony would be low key and devoid of any fanfare.
Bankole said: “Our headquarters determines how things should be done at the state level.
“At the state level, we implement whatever directive is giving to us.
“So the reason is best known to them.
“The Stream 1 passing out ceremony is coming up on Thursday, October 6, while that of Stream 11 comes up on Friday, November 4, 2016.

952,029 school-age children out of schools following Boko Haram attacks — Abdulsalami

Former Head of State, General Abdulsalami Abubakar (retd), said yesterday that though the Boko Haram insurgency was on the verge of being nipped in the bud, effects of the magnitude of the human, economic and ecological problems created by it would remain with the North East for a long time.
General Abubakar made the observation in Yola at a two day conference organized by Modibbo Adama University of Technology, MAUTECH, the Nigerian Army and the Chad Basin Commission, with the theme, Peace Building and Reconstruction in the Chad Basin, attended by representatives from Chad, Niger Republic, Cameroun, Nigeria.
General Abubakar, who gave the keynote address, said the forum should draw attention to the fight against insurgency.
He said all that was required was to help the communities and the economy to place the region on an irreversible path of economic growth and recovery.
Terror, according to General Abdulsalami is an enemy that has been globally difficult to fight and

Bayelsa Teachers Issue 21-day Ultimatum To State Govt.

The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has issued a 21-day ultimatum to the Bayelsa state government to fully pay the four months’ half salary of all teachers or the teachers in the state would stop working.



This, they said, would affect their expected participation in the conduct of the National Common Entrance and other examinations.

The state wing executive council of the NUT Bayelsa state chapter issued a 9-point communique titled “Not Until We Perish” highlighting their resolution after an emergency meeting to discuss the lingering non-payment of six months’ salaries to primary and secondary school teachers.

The state chairman of the NUT, Kalama Tonpre, while reading the communique, said that the

Nasiru Shua’ibu Develops Malaria Vaccine

Nasiru Shua’ibu, a professor in the Biochemical Parasitology Department of Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, has developed a new malaria vaccine to prevent high rate of death from malaria fever.
Speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Zaria, Kaduna State on Tuesday, Mr. Shu’aibu said the new malaria vaccine was different from others currently in use.

Mr. Shu’aibu, who is currently working with the Institute of Tropical Medicine, Japan, said the result of the research on the new vaccine would soon be out for Nigerians to use.

“In a simple term that a layman can understand, the content of this malaria vaccine research is difficult, but let me try if I could simplify it, it is called DNA Vaccine.

“It is a new technology for discovery and delivery of vaccine against any infectious disease that was developed in the early to mid 1990s.

Recession: Parents Send Children To School Without Textbooks

Two days after the resumption of schools in Lagos State, school proprietors say many of the students returned without reading and writing materials.

In separate interviews with NAN, the school owners told NAN that it was unusual for pupils to start a new academic session without at least 70 per cent of their textbooks ready.

Ifejola Dada, president of the Association for Formidable Education Development, confirmed that in her school, most pupils resumed school without textbooks.

Dada said this was a new development unlike what obtained in the past when pupils resumed on the first day with their school materials ready.

She attributed the development to the current recession in the country.

“We are not talking about the school fees now because it is obvious that the recession is biting hard on parents and guardians,” she said.

Yemi Osinbajo Honoured By Unilag Alumni (Photos)

Vice President Prof. Yemi Osinbajo receives Executives of Unilag Alumni Association today at the Office of the Vice President, State House, Abuja.

Student's Leg Crushed In Lagos On His Way To School (Graphic Photos)

This boy was going to school this morning, see the terrible thing that happened to him.

UNILORIN student confesses to cheating in WASSCE, withdraws from school

Authorities of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State on Sunday said that they had accepted the voluntary withdrawal of a student, Jephthah Abolarin, from the institution.
Abolarin, a 300-Level Sociology student, had written to the university confessing to cheating during his West African Senior School Certificate Examination.
Abolarin, who claimed he had become a ‘born again’ Christian, said continuing his university education, using an unmerited certificate was unjust and immoral.
He wrote the letter to the institution’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Academics, Prof. Sidiqat Ijaiya, on August 5, 2016.
According to him, he wanted to withdraw from the school because he got his WASSCE through