A National Committee on the Harmonization of Schools and Examination Calendars is to be constituted. The committee will comprise NECO, WEAC, NABTEB, JAMB and a representative of private school owners. The Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu stated this at the 2020 Annual Ministerial Press Briefing in Abuja. He said Read more…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved a bill extending the retirement age for teachers in the country from 60 years to 65 years. The FEC, during its first meeting of the year 2021, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, approved the bill; Harmonized Retirement Age for Teachers Read more…
Lagos State Government has clarified that second term of 2020/2021 academic session is meant to last for 61 days for public and private schools. According to the revised calendar for 2020/2021 academic session released by the Office of the Education Quality Assurance (OEQA), the second term is slated to run Read more…
The new release of NIMC Mobile App, NIMC has said the App is easy to navigate, has some good features and the app can only be used by those who already have their National Identification Number (NIN). Nigerian Identification Management Commission, NIMC says everybody is permitted by Nigeria communications Commission(NCC) Read more…
The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has reviewed the curfew earlier imposed in the state to now start from 10 pm to 5 am as part of efforts to check the spate of COVID-19 cases in the wake of the second wave of the pandemic. The governor, who rolled Read more…
The National Examination Council (NECO) on Wednesday released the results of its 2020 Senior Secondary School Certificate (SSCE) examination it conducted throughout the country between October and November. The result showed that 894,101 candidates out of the 1,209,992 that sat for the examination scored credit and above in English and Read more…
LAGOS REAFFIRMS SCHOOLS’ RESUMPTION DATE OF MONDAY, 18TH JANUARY, 2021 The Lagos State Government has reaffirmed its earlier pronouncement that all public and private schools in Lagos State below tertiary level should resume on Monday, 18th January, 2021 for the second term 2020/2021 academic session. The Honourable Commissioner for Education, Read more…
FG Directs Schools To Resume On Jan. 18, 2021; Bans Assembly, Visiting Days (Read Press Statement)
LASCON CONDUCTS CBT ENTRANCE EXAM FOR CANDIDATES No fewer than 292 Candidates sat for the Computer-Based Test (CBT) Entrance Examination into the Department of Midwifery, Lagos State College of Nursing, Igando, for the Year 2021 Academic Session on Saturday, January 9, 2021. Addressing the candidates before the commencement of the Read more…
The Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 has put the Jan. 18, 2021 resumption of school on hold following the second wave of COVID-19 ravaging the entire world and Nigeria. This was made known by the Hon. Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu. The Federal Government is currently reviewing the January Read more…
Branches of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday assessed COVID-19 protocols in the universities and said the institutions were not ready for safe reopening. In separate interviews with The PUNCH, the chapters of the union commented on the directive of the National Universities Commission that universities could resume Read more…
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has directed vice-chancellors of universities to commence academic activities on January 18, in accordance with the directive of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) team on COVID-19. The nation’s public universities have been closed since March 2020, following a strike by the Academic Staff Union of Read more…
LASG DIRECTS ALL PUBLIC, PRIVATE SCHOOLS TO RESUME JANUARY 18 The Lagos State Government has announced that all public and private schools below the tertiary level in Lagos State should resume for the second term 2020/21 academic session from Monday, 18th of January, 2021. The Honourable Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Read more…
The Rivers State Government has asked all public and private nursery, primary and secondary schools to reopen in the state from January 4. This was contained in a press statement by Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr Chidi Adiele. Earlier, the Federal Government had instructed schools to reopen from January Read more…
The Plateau State Government says tertiary institutions will now resume on January 18 as against the January 4 date earlier announced. The Commissioner for Higher Education, Kakmena Audu, who disclosed this in Jos Saturday, said the government shifted the resumption date due to the directive of the Presidential Task Force Read more…
RIVERS STATE GOVERNMENT OF NIGERIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION Press Release The Ministry of Education wishes to announce that, with the approval of His Excellency Governor Nyesom Wike, the school calendar published in August, 2020 stands. Accordingly, both public and private schools in the State are hereby reminded that schools will Read more…
…..as legal proceedings launched Staff at schools have a legal right not to return to classrooms due to the spread of COVID, a leading union has said – while another has started legal proceedings against the Department for Education. The National Education Union (NEU) has said all primary schools should Read more…
The Nigeria Union of Teachers on Thursday cautioned the Federal Government against the January 18 resumption date for schools across the country. The NUT Secretary-General, Dr Mike Ike-Ene, who stated this in an interview with one of our correspondents, said there was no need to hurriedly resume, if the rate Read more…
Anambra state government has announced a new resumption date for the second half-First term of the 2020/2021 academic session. The Commissioner for Education, Prof. Kate Omenugha, in a statement on Thursday, gave the new date as of January 18, 2021. The government had earlier announced January 11 as the resumption Read more…
The Akwa Ibom State Government has announced Monday, January 4th, 2021 as the resumption date for all public schools in the state. The announcement which was contained in a press release signed by the State’s Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Comrade Ini Ememobong, came following far-reaching resolutions adopted earlier today Read more…
The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede said the board has reduced the timeline for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) from three hours to two hours. Similarly, Use of English that used to have 100 questions has been reduced to 60 questions while Read more…
The President of the Nigerian Medical Association, Prof. Innocent Ujah, said he was seen as someone against the progress of the education sector when he warned against the reopening of schools earlier in the year. Ujah, at a webinar organised by the Alliance on Surviving COVID-19 and Beyond, on Wednesday, Read more…