President Bola Tinubu’s administration is set to allocate N6.75tn from the projected N27.5tn budget to defence and security, education, and infrastructure in 2024, as revealed during the presentation of the budget breakdown by the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Abubakar Bagudu. This allocation focuses on enhancing law enforcement capabilities, improving human capital development, and…
Nigerians with old notes can still deposit them at commercial banks even after the February 10 deadline, this is according to the Central Bank Governor, Godwin Emefiele. Emefiele stated this on Tuesday while appearing before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee. It would be recalled that the lawmakers had accused Emefiele of breaching section…
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, yesterday, embarked on sensitising students, in the Badagry axis, against cultism, bullying, rape, sexual molestation, drug addictions and other forms of social vices. The Civil Defence Public Relations Officer, Lagos Command, Mr Oluwaseun Abolurin, said the sensitisation was organised by Badagry Division and the Special Female Squad,…
The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) has remitted over N309 billion from education taxation to the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). The revenue generated by FIRS from across tertiary education institutions in the country between January and September 2022 exceeded the N305 billion budgeted for the full year. Chairman of FIRS, Muhammad Nami, disclosed this,…
The preponderance of sexual harassment in higher institutions in Nigeria and the alleged cases of negotiation of marks have necessitated legislative efforts at returning sanity to the Nigerian higher institutions. Following the stand of the law in dealing with this menace, the Management of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode, Ogun State, has suspended…
While the nation cries out at the dwindling quality of education handed down to the younger generation. An assurance has been made by the University Of Ibadan to grant admission to students who scored less than 200 in the most recent Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The Director of the UI Distance Learning Centre, Prof. Emmanuel…
The Federal Ministry of Education has ordered the immediate closure of one of its colleges, the Federal Government College Kwali, located in Kwali Area Council of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja. It was gathered that the decision was a result of rising insecurity and threat to the lives, security and well being of the students…
The Federal Government on March 7, 2022, inaugurated a seven-person committee tasked with the renegotiation of the 2009 agreement reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities and the other three unions including, The Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions and…
