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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 sprung up on the school premises. The 50-year-old, who has been at the helm of the school for 12 years, ...

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 in 1955, 66 years after, how far have we gone? Let me start by correcting this notion. I’m not aw...

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 schools. Reacting to the restraining order, the state leadership of NUT said it had not been served wit...

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 to the restraining order, the state leadership of NUT said it had not been served with any processes ...

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 redressed. The governor, who was represented by his Deputy, Alhaji Ahmed Mohammed Ketso, said: “There i...