Affordable Students Hostels in Yaba By Joy Mfon Essien Finding a hostel in Yaba used to be a simple transaction — secure a bed space, manage the basics, and get on with school life. In 2026, that logic no longer holds. What has emerged instead is a layered housing ecosystem shaped by students, tech workers, Read More…
Education
Why Lagos Is Becoming a Serious Tech Learning City
Top 10 Tech Training Institutes in Lagos By Joy Mfon Essien Lagos no longer treats tech training as a side hustle for the ambitious few. In 2026, it has become a serious urban industry of its own, feeding talent into start-ups, banks, global remote teams, creative businesses, and a widening digital services economy. What used Read More…
Academia Nigeriana: Kudos & Knocks
Congratulations to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, all members of Nigerian academia, and the Nigerian government for finally renegotiating the conditions of service of academic staff in Nigerian universities after many years of failed government implementation of the original 2009 agreement. Maybe we can now begin to experience a return to normalcy in universities Read More…
2025 Nobel Prize for Physics
By Joy Essien, Contributing Editor The 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to John Clarke, Michel H. Devoret and John M. Martinis for their groundbreaking experiments, demonstrating quantum tunneling and energy quantization on a macroscopic scale.The trio conducted a pioneering experiment with a superconducting electrical circuit, where billions of electrons pair up into Read More…
Touching Lives, One Child at a Time: How Cakasa Ebenezer Foundation Brings Hope to Public Schools
In a brightly lit classroom at Estate Primary School, Mushin, little hands clutched newly given exercise books as wide eyes gleamed with excitement. Around them, volunteers in reflector bibs and branded shirts helped open pencil cases and arrange writing materials on small wooden desks. At the centre of it all stood Mrs. Helen Egbe, Executive Read More…
Amadeus University holds inaugural matriculation and official opening ceremony
Amadeus University, a new not-for-profit institution dedicated to academic excellence, innovation, and societal impact, will hold its inaugural matriculation and official opening ceremony on February 8, 2025. This event marks the formal commencement of the University’s mission to provide high-quality education to students from diversebackgrounds. Founded by Dr. Godwin Nwabunka, a seasoned development economist and Read More…
UNESCO World Philosophy Day holds at UNIZIK
By Maxim Uzoatu The 2024 UNESCO World Philosophy Day is the rave of the moment today, Thursday, December 12 at the Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State. The personable Host and Head of Department of Philosophy, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Prof Ifechi Ndianefoo calls forth the enlightened public to the Read More…
President Tinubu dissolves Nnamdi Azikiwe University Council, removes key officials
In a decisive move, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has dissolved the Governing Council of Nnamdi Azikiwe University in Awka, Anambra State, and removed key officials, including the newly appointed Vice Chancellor, Prof. Bernard Ifeanyi Odoh, and the Registrar, Mrs. Rosemary Ifoema Nwokike. This action follows reports of irregularities in the appointment process. The council, led Read More…
Cakasa Ebenezer Foundation transforms lives of Mushin primary school pupils through ‘Kit-a-Child Phase 5’
Friday, September 27th, 2024, marked an unforgettable day for 1,040 pupils across selected primary schools in Mushin Local Government Area (LGA), Lagos State, as Cakasa Ebenezer Foundation (CEF) brought smiles and essential school supplies to these young learners through its impactful Kit-a-Child Programme Phase 5. This annual initiative, timed to support the 2024/2025 school year, Read More…
Government moves to avert looming ASUU strike
In a decisive move to prevent a looming strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), the Nigerian government has re-established a seven-member renegotiation committee. This committee is tasked with addressing the 2009 agreements with university-based unions, including ASUU, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), the Non-Academic Staff of Educational and Associated Read More…