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By Segun Awofadeji Bauchi State Government has earmarked N400 million for digital education in an effort aimed at advancing the sector. Governor Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed disclosed this during an advocacy visit of the Director of the Korean International Development Agency, Mr Woochang Chan and other officials of the agency paid him at the Council Chamber, Government House, Bauchi. The governor said the state government has already developed a model and framework to fast-track the implementation...

By Joseph Erunke ABUJA-THE Public and Private Development Centre,PPDC,has decried the high rate of abandoned projects across the country, asking authorities to take actions towards completing them for effective use. It regretted that public institutions were awarding contracts without following through their execution, leading to abandonment by contractors just as it said some awarded contracts were merely in pages of papers without physical trace.  The organization particularly fingered the ...

2021 IWD: CISLAC demands FG to close gender gap in all areas On By Gabriel Ewepu – Abuja As Nigeria joins the international community to commemorate 2021 International Women’s Day, IWD, Monday, the Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre, CISLAC, Tuesday, demanded FG to close gender gap in all areas. The demand was made in a statement signed by the Executive Director, CISLAC, Auwal Rafsanjani, with the subject ‘#Choosetochallenge All Forms of Inequality, and Women and Girls Exploitatio...

ON THE GO 2023: INEC finalising electronic voting process — 50 companies assessed The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has revealed it is finalising the process of acquiring electronic voting devices ahead of the 2023 elections.Advertisement Festus Okoye, chairman, INEC information and voter... COVID-19: Nigeria records two deaths, 101 fresh infections Two patients were confirmed to have died of COVID-19 complications on Saturday — bringing the country’s ...

TODAY March 4, 2021 Benue’s Gov. Samuel Ortom on Thursday commended President Muhammadu Buhari over his directive to security operatives to shoot on sight, anyone illegally in possession AK47 rifles. Ortom gave the commendation in Makurdi when the Chairman Governing Board, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Prof. Adamu Kyuka, paid him a courtesy visit. President Buhari on Wednesday ordered security operatives to shoot on sight anyone carrying AK47 rifles illegally in the country. ...

Benue’s Gov. Samuel Ortom on Thursday commended President Muhammadu Buhari over his directive to security operatives to shoot on sight, anyone illegally in possession AK47 rifles.

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Ondo State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) and a not-for-profit organisation, Universal Learning Solutions (ULS), are partnering to deliver intensive training to teachers and dedicated government officials of Ondo State under the Teacher Professional Development initiative. A statement Monday said the training began for 2625 primary school teachers as well as 50 officials on Monday 15th February, 2021. According to the statement, the training is taking place in eight training centres ac...

Share The sum of N500m has been earmarked by Bauchi for digital education in a bid to advance the sector. The disclosure was made, on Friday, by the State Governor, Sen Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed, when the Director of the Korean International Development Agency, Mr Woochang Chan and other officials of the Agency paid him an advocacy visit at the Council Chambers, Government House, Bauchi. The Governor further said that the state government has already developed a model and framework to fast-track...

Share For several years, the late Chief Olusola Saraki, the Waziri Ilorin, reigned supreme in the Kwara State politics. From the Second Republic down to the present democratic dispensation, his name made or marred the political fortune of many aspirants in the state. His political clout  spanned  over three decades. The political legacy of “Oloye” remained unrivalled until 2019 when the “Oto ge” Tsunami put an end to the political influence enjoyed by the Sarakis in Kwara State politi...