Education

AFTER the final examination of her two-year National Diploma (ND) programme, Laide Johnson (not real name),  a 21-year-old student of Geology at the Polytechnic Ibadan travelled home to Ilaro, Ogun State, for a short holiday. She was…
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FINDINGS by the International Centre for Investigative Reporting (ICIR) on Tuesday revealed how the Ekiti state government padded examination fee of the May/June West African Examination Council (WAEC), scheduled to hold later in the year…
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AFEES Agboola is no stranger to speaking the English language, and that is an understatement. He started teaching the language as far back as 2006 during his teaching practice as a student in the college of education. In 2012, he was…
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OYETUNDE Abdul-Wahab breathed his last on Monday, January 13. He was, until then, a final-year student of Education Science at the University of Ilorin and one-time welfare director of his department. But the unusual circumstances…
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In this final part, the report sheds light on the ongoing and completed projects at Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Federal University Dutsin-Ma, and Federal University Dutse. It also reveals the complications TETFund projects have created…
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Since its establishment eight years ago, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has disbursed hundreds of billions of naira to government-owned schools to train teachers and address infrastructural deficits. Kunle ADEBAJO paid visits…
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By Femi Owolabi Story Highlights  School feeding lasted a few weeks in most schools   school enrolment and attendance have dropped There is poor supervision  Government claims it is not aware of any problem with the…
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Even though the school authorities claimed that handouts have been banned in the school and that lecturers can only sell recommended textbooks, an investigation by this newspaper shows that many of the so-called textbooks are without…
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Last month, President Muhammadu Buhari slammed the National Assembly for having little to show for over one trillion naira budgeted for constituency projects of the members in the last 10 years. INNOCENT DURU, who visited sites of some…
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Alfred Olufemi In a recent interview, the spokesperson of Federal Polytechnic Offa, Olayinka Iroye, announced that the school authorities had eradicated all forms of corruption and that no one sells handouts to students no matter the…
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