By Michael Adeyemo The Oyo State Coordinator, Breakthrough Action Nigeria, Mrs Oluwatoyin Afachung, has advocated investing in the girl-child through education, in addressing some of the challenges facing the gender. Mrs Afachung made the appeal, while speaking on this year’s International Girl Child Day on Pensioners FM’s Political program “The Searchlight”. According to Mrs Afachung,…
Oyo state government has partnered with the National Institute for Legislative and Democratic Studies to organise a Quiz Competition for secondary school students in Oyo State on legislative processes. While declaring the Quiz Competition open on Thursday at the Lagelu Grammar School, Ibadan, the Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Salihu Adelabu, said that…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Wednesday said it would continue to embark on industrial actions until the government meets its demands. Subsequently, the union is against any plan by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund to include private universities in the country as beneficiary institutions of its projects. The President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel…
Governor Dauda Lawal of Zamfara State has taken a compassionate step to assist 66 students from the state evacuated from war-torn Sudan. The students sponsored by the State Government were evacuated from Sudan due to the ongoing war. A statement by the Spokesperson to the Governor, Sulaiman Idris, noted that on Monday, the Commissioner of…
By Adebayo Yusuf The newly appointed Chairman of Council of Yoruba Elders, Oyo state chapter, Professor Aderemi Adedibu has called on the Ministry of Education to mandate the use of native languages for teaching at the basic level. Professor Adedibu made this known shortly after featuring on Pensioners’ FM Stewardship Yoruba Programme, ‘Abo Re’ in…
One Thousand, Five Hundred and Thirty-Three 200 Level students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso will resume at the Iseyin Campus, by the end of October, 2023. This is in fulfilment of the promise made by Governor Seyi Makinde during the commissioning of the Iseyin campus, last month. In a statement signed by…
By Babatunde Tiamiyu Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Salihu Adelabu, on Monday commended the management of the Government College, Ibadan; Second Home College, Ibadan and Mr. Babarinde Samson Oluwaseun from Methodist Basic School Iseyin, won the President’s Teachers and School Awards respectively, for the State. The Commissioner, while playing host to…
By Babatunde Tiamiyu The Minister of Interior, Dr Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo says statistics indicate that no fewer than 99,985 Nigerian students left the country to enrol in universities in the United Kingdom between 2017 and 2022. The minister disclosed this at the opening ceremony of the 2023 University of Lagos International Week on Monday, in Lagos….
Lagos State University of Education (LASUED) has integrated the Yoruba Language into its General Nigeria Studies (GNS) curriculum to foster the language’s preservation and encourage its use among students. The Vice-Chancellor of the institution, Prof. Bidemi Lafiaji-Okuneye, shared this information in an interview. This comes on the heels of the enactment of a law by…
By : Babatunde Tiamiyu Oyo State Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Salihu Adelabu has felicitated the teachers in the state on the occasion of 2023 World Teachers’ Day, describing them as the most important personalities in the society. Prof. Adelabu, in a statement issued and made available to journalists on Thursday in Ibadan,…