Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde, has confirmed that seven teachers were abducted during the recent attack on schools in Oriire Local Government Area of the state. Newsmen reports that Makinde said the exact number of missing pupils was still being verified. The governor spoke on Sunday after meeting with service commanders and heads of security…
Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra has declared Tuesday, October 7, a school-free day to celebrate and honour teachers across the state. The state’s Commissioner for Education, Prof Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, disclosed this in a statement on Monday in Awka. “In view of the fact that the 2025 World Teachers’ Day fell on a Sunday, Governor Soludo…
TODAY’S VIEWPOINT IS ON HOW PRIVATE SCHOOLS IN NIGERIA ARE OVERWORKING STUDENTS AND TEACHERS WITH ENDLESS ASSIGNMENTS All work and no play makes jack a dull boy, says James Howell in his collection of proverbs back in 1659. Close to five centuries after, the logic of the axiom, which is about forging a balance between…
Bauchi State Governor, Bala Mohammed, has approved the recruitment of 3,000 teachers to be deployed to Junior and Senior secondary schools across the state. The Project Coordinator, Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment in the state, Ali Gar, stated this on Thursday during a sensitisation meeting on the Girls Scholarship Programme with stakeholders from…
IN TODAY’S VIEWPOINT, PENSIONERS FM LOOKS AT CURBING UNPROFESSIONAL TEACHING PRACTICES IN NIGERIAN SCHOOLS Early this month, a viral video of a female teacher landing heavy slaps on a three-year old boy, for inability to write number six, sent shock waves around the country. Uproars trailed the horrific incident. Principally, the teacher’s action was unprofessional,…
By Yetunde Oke Nigeria Union of Teachers, NUT, Oyo State Wing, has called for the review of the country’s education curriculum. Chairman, Oyo NUT, Alhaji Raji Oladimeji made the call while featuring on Pensioners’ FM Current Affairs Programme, “The Searchlight.” Alhaji Oladimeji, however, said the review of the curriculum should be in line with advancement…
The Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board has released the results of its computer-based tests for the recruitment of teachers into primary schools in the state. This disclosure was made in a release by the Executive Chairman of the Board, Nureni Adeniran, and made available to the newsmen on Wednesday, in Ibadan. In the statement,…
The Labour Party presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has called for improved welfare for teachers and an urgent need to revolutionise the nation’s education sector which can help to reduce the number of out-of-school children. Obi made this call in a post shared on his social media account on Thursday. According to…