Mrs Folasade Adefisayo, Lagos State Commissioner of Education, has challenged students and children across the state to build on their past achievements in the coming year. A statement released by Adefisayo on Sunday urged students to be prepared for the start of the second semester of the 2022–2023 academic year on Monday. For her, this Read More…
Education
UNILAG College of Medicine seeks support from alumni, friends
Alumni, parents, stakeholders, and friends of the college are all being asked to fund medical education by the University of Lagos College of Medicine. The Deputy Provost, Prof. Osaretin Ebuehi, said the event was the third in the series while speaking on the sidelines of a fundraising dinner and award night on Wednesday in Lagos. Read More…
Don wants adoption of international sign language
Professor Bolanle Olawuyi, a former director of the University of Ilorin’s Centre for Supportive Services for the Deaf (CSSD), has argued in favour of the adoption of International Sign Language as the current interpreting trend in a globalised society. In her keynote talk at an internal training for sign language interpreters at the CSSD in Read More…
YABATECH awards 7,554 ND, HND diplomas at 34th convocation ceremony
At the 34th convocation of the esteemed Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH), 7,554 worthy graduates received national and higher diplomas for successfully completing the academic year. Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, the conferences for the classes of the 2018–19, 2019–2020, and 2020–21 academic sessions (Full-Time and Part-Time) were merged. Obafemi Omokungbe, the Rector of YABATECH, Read More…
Teacher, Don’t Teach Me Nonsense!
My name is Government, in case you don’t know. You underrate me at your peril, Teacher. You, a mere pen and paper wielder, exam marker, lecture deliverer, knowledge vendor. A hunter of antelope can’t compare himself with a hunter of men. Only the Government can delete you from circulation — and even find your corpse Read More…
Avoid scammers; we are not recruiting, WAEC cautions
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has dissociated itself from a social media post seeking competent applicants to fill a number of open jobs in the organisation. This was contained in a statement issued on Saturday in Lagos by the council’s head of public affairs, Mrs. Moyosola Adesina. She called the ads phoney and deceptive. Read More…
Lagos presses 200 ambassadors on sexual, gender-based violence
The Lagos State Government’s Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), inducted 200 students from Education District 1 as ambassadors against sexual and gender-based violence on Thursday. At the ceremony of induction at Iyana Ipaja, Mrs. Titilola Vivour-Adeniyi, the Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Domestic and Sexual Violence Agency (DSVA), spoke to the 200 ambassadors Read More…
FG calls for joint efforts to provide secured environment in schools
In the midst of hazardous issues, the Federal Government has called for coordinated measures to establish a secure environment for teachers and leavers. At the 66th National Council on Education (NCE) meeting, which was held in Abuja on Thursday, the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, made the announcement. Strengthening of Security and Safety in Read More…
Nigerian Army and Unilag collaborate on nursing curriculum
Prof. Oluwtoyin Ogundipe, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos, says that the partnership between the school and the Nigerian Army to train skilled nurses will improve the quality of health care. On Tuesday in Lagos, Ogundipe made this statement when they signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Col. Idris Babatunde Solebo, Acting Read More…
Sanwo-Olu doubles Lagos student bursaries
With the approval of Lagos State’s governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, the bursary given to students from Lagos State at universities and colleges across the country has been increased by 100 per cent. The Executive Secretary of the Lagos State Scholarship Board, Mr. Abdur Rahaman Lekki, said in a statement on Sunday that the increase would start Read More…