archiveAugust 31, 2020

  The Education Quality Assurance (OEQA) unit of the Lagos State Ministry of Education has warned the public to disregard a resumption time table circulating in the social media. The time-table claims to be the 2020/2021 academic calendar, states that the first term of the session would start September 21,...

  Mr Gbenga Adefaye, the General Manager/Editor-in-Chief of Vanguard Newspapers, has been appointed as Provost of the Nigerian Institute of Journalism, Ogba, Ikeja. A statement signed in Lagos on Monday by former Ogun governor, Chief Olusegun Osoba, Chairman, Governing Council of the NIJ, said Adefaye would serve as Provost of...

The National Examination Council (NECO) on Monday fixed Sept. 10 as deadline for the registration of schools and examination candidates for the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE). A statement by the Registrar/Chief Executive of the council, Prof. Godswill Obioma in Abuja said the examination body would not be subject...

Nigeria’s state oil company recorded a 5.34 billion Naira ($14 million) cost for fuel in June, months after it changed its pricing method in an effort to eliminate subsidies. State oil company NNPC outlined the “under recovery” bill in its June monthly statement, a term used to reference money lost...

 An Electricity expert, Mr Mohammed Idris, on Monday commended President Muhammadu Buhari for granting a one-year waiver on import levy on prepaid electricity meters. Idris gave the commendation in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Akwanga Local Government Area (LGA) of Nasarawa State. According...

 The number of coronavirus cases recorded worldwide has topped 25 million, according to data compiled by U.S. researchers. In the United States, which has the highest case tally of any country, infection numbers are nearing six million, according to figures from Johns Hopkins University updated on Sunday night. Brazil has...

  Breaking: Supreme Court uphold Yahaya Bello as winner Kogi Gov’s election The Supreme Court has upheld the return of Yahaya Bello as winner of the last governorship election in Kogi State. In a unanimous judgment delivered on Monday morning, the court’s seven-man panel led by the Chief Justice of...

  About a week after testing positive for coronavirus, Lagos State Commissioner for Health, prof. Akin Abayomi has recovered from the virus. “It is with gratitude to God that I announce the recovery and subsequent negative test for COVID-19 of the Honorable Commissioner for Health, Professor Akin Abayomi,” Lagos information...

...says an educated mind cannot be held down ...as Ministries' dedicate facilities named after Adeboye, Udom    Oyo State governor, Engineer Seyi Makinde, on Sunday, declared that his administration would continue to prioritise education, saying that education remained the key to societal growth. Makinde, who spoke at two separate events...

  Says Nigeria’s pathway to economic prosperity yet unclear after 60 years of independence Gives 18 priority actions to end poverty   BudgIT on Monday released its report on Nigeria’s economic challenges titled ‘Investing in People’ even as it laments the ever increasing number of army unemployed youth in the...