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For Yobe teachers, new facilities bring dignity and pride Format © UNICEFNigeria/2021 With new classrooms, offices and fences, UNICEF, with support from the German Government, is improving school safety and motivation for teachers and children in Yobe *Folashade Adebayo, Communication Officer, UNICEF Nigeria Every morning, Zainab Ali, head teacher at Dawoyo Primary School, Dawoyo, Yobe State, in north-east Nigeria, takes a lone tour around the brand-new classroom and office block that has spru...

Share Gabadeen Wasiu Olugbenga is a professor of Educational Management and a Director of Quality Assurance, University of Abuja. He provides some community services in the area of basic education, and he is a member of the Technical Working Group of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC). He speaks in this interview to CLEMENT IDOKO on the neglect of basic education, curriculum review and funding of the sector, among other issues. Excerpts:   Free education was introduced in Nigeria ...

TODAY Nigeria Union of Teachers The Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Tuesday said in spite of the order by the National Industrial Court (NIC), which restrained it from embarking on strike, its members will not go back to work. The NIC, sitting in Benin City, had on Monday in a suit filed by the state government and the state Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) with Suit No. NICN/BEN/04/2021, restrained the NUT from proceeding on any strike in the state primary sch...

By Adibe Emenyonu The Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Tuesday said in spite of the order by the National Industrial Court (NIC), which restrained it from embarking on strike, its members will not go back to work. The NIC, sitting in Benin City, had on Monday in a suit filed by the state government and the state Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) with Suit No. NICN/BEN/04/2021, restrained the NUT from proceeding on any strike in the state primary schools. Reacting t...

By Laleye Dipo The Niger State Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani Bello, has decried what he described as the “continued decline in the quality of products from the nation’s educational system despite huge investments by governments in the sector”. Bello made the remarks in a message he sent to the flag-off of the 2017/2018 Quality Assurance Training for Directors and Education Secretaries in the 25 local government areas of the state, emphasising the urgent need for the situation to be redre...

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The federal government has released about N1.9 billion to the Niger State Government to boost the standard of education and literacy in the state.

By Laleye Dipo The federal government has released about N1.9 billion to the Niger State Government to boost the standard of education and literacy in the state. The Minister of State for Education Mr. Chukwuemeka Nwajuiba, who disclosed this in Minna on Tuesday at the flag-off of the “Better Education Service Delivery For All” programme, said the state government will account for the money before it can access future grants. He said the state was selected to benefit from the grant because ...

Share Biola Azeez takes a cursory look at the impact and effect of the ratio nine for women to seven for men in membership of the cabinet of Governor AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq of Kwara State that was dissolved recently. In his resolve to compensate women in Kwara State over their alleged lack of representation at the last general election in the state in which all the elective positions went to men, Governor Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq in December 2020, surprised many when he appointed nine women as co...

Odewumi For the education sector, year 2020 has been a challenging and turbulent one. The first inkling of what the year held for Nigerians manifested in the first quarter when the world woke up to the reality of the coronavirus pandemic that threatened everything the sector held dear. As part of measures to contain the coronavirus pandemic, the Federal Government, on March 23, closed schools and educational institutions nationwide. The closure, which lasted for more than six months, halted tea...