EDUCATION

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is out with guidelines for licensing and regulation of payments system holding companies (PSHC) even as stated that companies must exist as non-operating entities in the ecosystem. The new guideline is a follow-up to an earlier template on new license categorisation, which required companies...

 Economic analysts on Monday called on the Federal Government to reduce the high cost of governance, to enable it pay up its growing debts when interest rates were due. They made the call in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos, on the backdrop of Nigeria’s...

The Federal Government has announced the conclusion of its plans to build state-of-the-art digital schools and facilities for learning across the country. The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr Hamid Bobboyi, disclosed this during the commissioning of Basic Education projects at the Federal University, Dutse, Jigawa...

The Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG) has advised the Federal Government to always consider its economic policy choices, before taking decision, in order to FastTrack economic growth, its recently launched 2021 Economic Outlook has said. The group stated that wrong policy choices were capable of casting a strain on the...

President Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated18-member Presidential Steering Committee on Alternate School Programme (ASP) to address the issue of out-of-school children in the country. Inaugurating the ASP at the State House, Abuja, on Tuesday, Buhari announced that the committee would be co-chaired by the Ministers of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and...

Lagos State University (LASU) Ojo, has graduated a total of 76 students with First Class honors across faculties of the university among 8,959 students of the 20182019 graduating set whose convocation ceremony was held on Wednesday. Wife of Ogun State Governor, Mrs Bamidele Abiodun, was at the event alongside the...

  All higher institutions in Kano state will reopen on October 26, after seven months of closure occasioned by COVID-19 pandemic. The State Commissioner for Higher Education, Mariya Mahmud Bunkure who revealed this said that the government had taken all the necessary measures for the smooth resumption of schools. The...

Urges parties to shift grounds to allow shut varsities reopen President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan on Monday waded into the disputes between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government over the enrollment on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) and other outstanding issues....

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a special salary scale for teachers. The President has also increased the years of service for teachers from 35 to 40 years. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, announced this on Monday in a speech he read while representing the President at the celebration of...

  The Federal Government has directed the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to transfer candidates’ biometrics to their institutions of choice. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said the directive was issued through the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu on Friday in Abuja. Oloyede said that effective checks have...