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Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has extended heartfelt congratulations to Mr. Stephen A. Oyelami on his extraordinary achievement of breaking the Guinness World Record for the ‘Longest Marathon Reading Aloud’ by a Team. Governor Adeleke praised Mr. Oyelami, an esteemed educationist from Iragberi, for his historic feat of reading aloud for 431 hours, 31…
The remaining 130 students abducted from St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary School in Papiri, Niger State, have been released, bringing a definitive end to one of Nigeria’s largest recent mass kidnappings. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Communication, Mr. Sunday Dare, confirmed the development in a post on his official…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU) chapter, has awarded scholarships totaling ₦6.2 million to 31 indigent students of the institution, as part of efforts to ease financial hardship and promote access to higher education. The Chairperson of ASUU-OOU, Dr Ganiyu Yinusa, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday, describing…
The Kwara South Consultative Forum has rejected a call by the Emir of Ilorin, Alhaji Ibrahim Sulu-Gambari, to rename the University of Ilorin after Sheikh Alimi, describing the proposal as divisive and insensitive. In a statement signed by its Secretary-General, Mr Adebayo Daramola, the group said the university belongs to all ethnic groups in…
The United States Mission in Nigeria has celebrated 54 emerging Nigerian leaders following their completion of the 2025 Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders. The welcome reception, held in Lagos on Thursday, recognised the Fellows who were selected from more than 7,400 applicants and underwent intensive leadership training at top U.S. universities in business,…
According to media reports, the Senate recently summoned Tunji Alausa, Minister of Education, and Amos Dangut, Head of the national office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC), over new guidelines for the 2025/2026 Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE). The resolution followed a motion sponsored by Sunday Karimi, senator representing Kogi West, who said the…
The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) and the Harvard Kennedy School in the United States have released a damning report that Nigeria as a nation is at a point of no return, with all the signs of a failed nation. The organisation made the disclosure in research findings it released recently through its senior…
Reports of lecturers offering high grades in exchange for sex saturate the media space. Two lecturers from the University of Lagos were recently sacked two years after they were exposed in a sex-for-grades documentary by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Both lecturers, Dr Boniface Igbeneghu of the Department of European Language and Integrated Studies, and…
Students of Kaduna State University (KASU) on Wednesday 26 May 2021 created massive gridlock in the state as they protested the recent increment of school fees by the state government. The state government had increased school fees across its tertiary institutions three weeks ago: the a development that was condemned by the Academic Staff Union…
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on 13 May 2021 lampooned the removal of History as a subject from the country’s educational curriculum. The governor known for his controversial stance on issues spoke in Makurdi at “Media Week and Communications Day 2021”. He threatened that the Benue State government would set up laws to restore…
