Category: Education - Page 26 - African News Today

We Won’t Tolerate Hijab in Kwara Mission Schools – CAN

6Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Religion

We Won’t Tolerate Hijab in Kwara Mission Schools – CAN

The Christian Association of Nigeria, Kwara State chapter has stressed that it will not allow the use of hijab by its pupils, despite the directive by the Kwara State government that Muslim female pupils in Christian mission schools be permitted to wear hijab. Last week, the state government had approved the wearing of hijab by Muslim female pupils in Christian mission grant-aided schools in the state. It also added that the 10 Christian schools shut down in the wake of the hijab crisis would be reopened on Monday, March 8. In its reaction, the state branch of the Christian Association of Nigeria said it would not succumb to the use of hijab in schools established by Christian missions, claiming that they were bemused that the government was making a decision on a matter that was ...

Akeredolu Directs Recitation of Oodua Anthem in Ondo Schools

5Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

Akeredolu Directs Recitation of Oodua Anthem in Ondo Schools

The Ondo State Government has directed all pupils and students in the state to recite the Oodua Anthem in their schools. Among those affected by the order are all the private and public institutions from primary to tertiary level in the state. The state Ministry of Education, Science and technology disclosed this in a circular distributed to all stakeholders signed by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry, Mr Akin Asaniyan. The circular was titled ‘Recitation of Oodua Anthem in all schools’. It partly read, “Please note that, at the just concluded inter-schools debate and award ceremony organised by Ondo State Ministry of Education Science and Technology, held on Thursday, February 25, 2021, at the International Culture and Event Center (The Dome), Governor Rotimi Akeredolu...

3Mar

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, Labour, News, Nigeria

Abia Teachers Suspend Strike

The Nigerian Union of Teachers, Abia State chapter has suspended its industrial action in the state. The Chairman of the NUT, Comrade Kizito A. Kalu, and the State Secretary Mrs. Nnenna Okonkwo, in a statement, said the decision to suspend the strike was reached after the intervention and elaborate deliberations by the NUT, National leadership on the plight of Abia Teachers with Governor Okezie Ikpeazu on Monday, March 1, 2021. According to the statement, the government has agreed to prioritise the payment of teachers’ salaries, noting that the state government also agreed to pay all the outstanding arrears of salaries owed to both Senior and Junior Secondary School teachers in the state before the end of 2021. The statement partly read, “The government has agreed to pay the basic...

Breaking: Abducted Kagara Students Released

27Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Breaking News, Education, News, Nigeria, Security

Breaking: Abducted Kagara Students Released

Bandits have released the students and staff of Government Science College Kagara, in Niger State who were kidnapped Wednesday, February 17, 2021. Their release was confirmed by a top security source involved in the counter-kidnapping operation in the State who spoke to Punch. Recall that the students were abducted by the bandits who disguised in military uniforms from their hostels over a week ago. Among those abducted were 27 students, three staff members, and 12 members of their family in the early hours of Wednesday.

Gunmen Kidnap 300 Girls in Zamfara School

26Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Crime, Education, News, Nigeria

Gunmen Kidnap 300 Girls in Zamfara School

Government Girls Secondary School, Jangebe in the Talata-Mafara Local Government of Zamfara State has been raided by gunmen suspected to be bandits and abducted about 300 schoolgirls in the early hours of Friday, 26th February, 2021. According to a staff of the school who spoke to Punch on the condition of anonymity, the gunmen arrived at the school around 1am on Friday with Hilux vehicles and motorcycles and forcefully took the schoolgirls. The source said some of the gunmen dressed in uniforms and pretended to be security personnel, before they broke into the students' hostels and kidnapped over 300 students. He said, “When they came into the school, we thought they were security personnel but to our utmost fear and dismay, they started putting the girls into Hilux vehicles and ...

NASU, SSANU Suspend Strike after Agreement with Fed Govt.

26Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

NASU, SSANU Suspend Strike after Agreement with Fed Govt.

The leadership of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the non-teaching staff unions of universities has suspended its three-week-old strike after signing a Memorandum of Action (MoA) with the Federal Government team. The suspension of the strike takes effective from today, the JAC said. Both unions’ JAC started an indefinite strike on February 5, 2021, following the alleged failure of the Federal Government to resolve issues on the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS). They also protested the sharing formula of the N40 billion earned academic allowances and non-payment of arrears of the new minimum wage, among others. The JAC of the non-teaching workers of universities comprises the SSANU and NASU. Addressing reporters at the end of a meeting with the ...

Kagara Students Yet to be Released — Niger Governor

22Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Violence, Youths

Kagara Students Yet to be Released — Niger Governor

Governor Sani Bello of Niger State has debunked speculations that about 42 persons kidnapped by bandits from the Government Science College, Kagara, in the state have been released. Speculations on Sunday night suggested that the schoolchildren have been set free. In his reaction, the governor in a press conference in Minna said efforts were at top gear to rescue the students safely. Recall that gunmen suspected to be bandits had raided the school on Wednesday, kidnapping 27 students and some staff members. Meanwhile, the passengers who were abducted last week Sunday by bandits allegedly affiliated to the Abubakar Shekau’s faction of Boko Haram, Jama’atu Ahlussunnah Lidda’awati Wal Jihad, have been received at Government House, Minna. The victims who walked into the governme...

Kagara Abduction: Govt Plans to Swap Schoolchildren for Arrested Bandits

20Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria, Safety, Security, Violence, Youths

Kagara Abduction: Govt Plans to Swap Schoolchildren for Arrested Bandits

Speculations are rife that the government might cave into releasing some arrested bandits as part of the deal to secure the release of 27 pupils and 15 workers of Government Science College, Kagara, in the Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State. Reports on Friday say the bandits that perpetrated the abduction of the schoolchildren on Wednesday are demanding for the release of their gang members in custody of security agencies as a swap deal to free the abductees, Punch reports. The bandits had raided the school in military uniform around 2am on Wednesday, and captured their victims while killing a Senior Secondary School 3 student who raised the alarm in the process. They took their victims to a nearby spot around Attahiru Secondary School where they had reportedly parked their...

IPPIS is a Scam, Fed Govt Deceived Us – NASU Chair

11Feb

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Education, Interview, News, Nigeria

IPPIS is a Scam, Fed Govt Deceived Us – NASU Chair

Chairman of the University of Lagos chapter of the Non Academic Staff Union of Universities and Allied Institutions, Mr. Kehinde Ajibade, has described the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) used to pay civil servants as fraudulent. He accused the Federal Government of deceiving the Union to sign up for it. NASU and the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) began an indefinite strike last Friday to protest the skewed operations of the IPPIS platform and the nonpayment of arrears of earned allowances, among others. “IPPIS is a scam; it is fraudulent; in fact it is not sustainable within the university system. That is just the fact because we found out that the federal government just deceived us to enrol on that platform,” he said in an inter...

WAEC Extends Registration Deadline for WASSCE

1Feb

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Education, News, Nigeria

WAEC Extends Registration Deadline for WASSCE

The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has announced the extension of registration for its private West African Senior School Certificate Examination to February 5, 2021. This was disclosed in a statement issued by Head of Public Affairs, WAEC, Mr Demianus Ojijeogu, titled, ‘WASSCE For Private Candidates, 2021-First Series: Extension of Registration Period’. Ojijeogu said, “This is to inform intending candidates for the above examination that registration initially set to close today has been extended to Friday, February 5, 2021.” The registration had been scheduled to end on January 29, 2021.