Education

State governments refuse to access UBEC N73 billion matching grants

THE EXECUTIVE Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission, Hamid Bobboyi has revealed that total unaccesed grants by the state...

IELTS: Nigerians are questioning why they have to prove they can speak English ㅡ every two years

AFEES Agboola is no stranger to speaking the English language, and that is an understatement. He started teaching the...
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Ayaga: The story of a child beggar at Usmanu Danfodio University

By: Emelife Uchenna (Student Journalist) THE SAPPHIRE eyes of Ahmad Yusuf who is a second-year student of Literature were completely...

Abandoned to fate: Strife-filled lives of visually impaired pupils in Nigeria’s South-East (Part 1)

Life for many of Nigeria’s visually impaired persons is often laced with sorrow and heart-breaking tales. For children, it is a worrying mix. In this report, KELECHUKWU OGU, a skilled and unsighted journalist, visits a handful of states in the country’s South-East region to capture the pains of visually impaired pupils dealt terrible blows by fate
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INVESTIGATION: How lecturers fleece Offa Poly students through sale of sub-standard, unregistered books (2)

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 International Standard Book Number (ISBN).

Week for Truth: Dubawa enlightens Nigerians on fact-checking, freedom of expression

DUBAWA, an independent fact-checking project initiated last year by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ), has kicked...
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