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Punch Newspapers Sections Grace Edema Published 12 March 2021 The Special Advisers on Education to the Lagos State Governor, Mr Tokunbo Wahab, has said education is now about Information Communication Technology and ability of teachers to impact the required knowledge. Wahab said this at the unveiling of the Eko Digital Skills Initiative. He also said the past 12 months had shown that education did not rely only on the four walls of a structure, “Education is now about ICT and how we can impact the required knowledge,” he said. Wahab explained that the Eko Digital Skills program was stra...

Punch Newspapers Sections Friday Olokor, Abuja Friday Olokor, Abuja Published 12 March 2021 The 36 states in Nigeria and the Federal Capital Territory have not accessed N41.06 billion matching grant in the coffers of the Universal Basic Education Commission as of March 2021, its Executive Secretary, Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has said. According to him, about N143 billion matching grant is accessed by states and FCT from 2017 to 2020, out of the N184.8 billion that was made available by the commission. Bobboyi stated these during an oversight visit by the Senate Committee on Basic and Secondary Edu...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 12 March 2021 Bubba Malam hails from Katsina State. It is the home state of Nigeria’s President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.). Malam calls himself Hausa-Fulani because his father is Hausa, and his mother is Fulani. Recently, Malam shared with his friends on social media his thoughts about Nigeria’s President and Commander-In-Chief of the Armed Forces, and his style of governance. It was a mouthful expression of personal opinion: “When we told them Buhari’s ineptness will destroy and balkanise this country, they said this day would never co...

Ogun to start school re-branding Dapo Abiodun Published 12 March 2021 Ogun State Government has identified 33 public schools to pilot its modern teaching equipment and infrastructure programme  in the state.   The state Commissioner for Education, Science, and Technology, Prof. Abayomi Arigbabu, said this  at the 2020-2021 annual quiz competition sponsored by SG Holdings Foundation in Abeokuta. Arigbabu explained that the initiative was to  provide world-class teaching aids and Infrastructures for the schools so they could  compete with foreign schools. The commissioner  did not mentio...

Man remanded for scamming US state of $8,000 COVID-19 fund Published 12 March 2021 Justice P. Mallong of the Kaduna Federal High Court has ordered the remand of one Collins Samuel in a custodial centre for allegedly defrauding the United States of America of the sum of $8,000. Samuel, under the guise of being an American citizen, reportedly received the $8,000 offered to citizens of Virginia State under its Pandemic Unemployment Assistance. He was arraigned by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on one count bordering on impersonation and obtaining by false pretences. He pleaded not ...