The supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, has said that a robust education system was a key to achieving a holistic national development. Wike made the disclosure during the opening ceremony of a four-day capacity building workshop for primary school teachers in the South East held in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State on Monday. The workshop was put together…
EDUCATION KEY TO NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT – WIKE
The supervising Minister of Education, Nyesom Wike, has said that a robust education system was a key to achieving a holistic national development. Wike made the disclosure during the opening ceremony of a four-day capacity building workshop for primary school teachers in the South East held in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State on Monday. The workshop was…
Oduduwa University Shut
Osun State Internal Revenue Service has shut Oduduwa University, a private institution in Ipetumodu, Osun State on Monday over alleged non-remittance of N173 million income tax. Femi Balogun, Senior Special Assistant to the Governor on revenue who led the team to the university made the disclosure in a statement in Osogbo. Balogun advised…
FG To Introduce Herbal Medicine As A Course In Nigerian Universities
The federal government has announced plans to introduce herbal medicine as a course in Nigerian universities. This was disclosed by Onyebuchi Chukwu, Minister of Health at the 3rd Annual guest lecture organized by the Medical and Health Workers Union of Nigeria in Abuja. Chukwu said a committee has submitted a curriculum, which they are…
Profile of A Thoroughbred Administrator
Honourable Murtala Adamu, Mutawallen Jangebe, chairman, ZSUBEB, was the deputy speaker Zamfara State House of Assembly between 2007 and 2011. Initially, he was chief whip (2003), and later chairman, Appropriation and Finance Committee of the House in 2007. He assumed the leadership of ZSUBEB with a wealth of experience both academically and career-wise. Honourable…
VOX POP
‘Governor Abubakar Is Focused’ Honourable Murtala Adamu, executive chairman, ZSUBEB had promoted basic primary education. He is also concerned about our plight by supplying all the necessary educational materials to ease learning in our various schools. Our Governor is the best thing that has even happen to Zamfara…
‘No Child Is Denied Access to Quality Education in Zamfara State’
Education as a liberator is an incontestable fact. Any investment in education is therefore not just money well spent, but it is a catalyst for advancement in society. It is common knowledge in Zamfara State that Governor (Dr) Abdul’aziz Yari Abubakar‘s administration has made sure that no child is denied access to quality…
Expanding Access to Education
The government of Delta State embarks on massive expansion of existing institutions of higher learning and the establishment of new ones to cater for the manpower needs of the state and the country Isaac Onoruese, 25, is an HND 2 Mechanical Engineering student at the Delta State Polytechnic, Ogwashi-Uku. His original interest was…
‘EduMarshal Is About Eradicating Street Culture’
Stella Blaize, Special Assistant to the Governor on Education, says EduMarshal is in the spirit of the Child Rights Law What is the EduMarshal all about? Education Marshall, shortened to EduMarshal, and what we do is to marshal children, that is kids we find outside on the streets during school hours into school. That…
Leveraging On Child’s Rights Law
To boost school enrolment and attendance, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan, falls back on the Child’s Rights law, an international convention that safeguards the rights of every child When Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan met just six pupils in a classroom during a surprise inspection tour of projects in the education sector in Abigborodo, Delta State recently, he…