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Education

May 23, 2025

Tinubu promises adequate funding for universities

Mr Tinubu said the government would address emerging problems in the upgraded colleges of education to university status.

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu [Photo: officialABAT]
May 23, 2025

University of Ibadan student wins Amnesty International’s 2025 intervarsity debate

The first and second runners-up are Odebala Odemena of Baze University, Abuja, and Alexander Boroh of the University of Benin.

Amnesty International Nigeria’s 2025 intervarsity debate competition
May 23, 2025

Students applaud Bayelsa govt for tackling school water crisis

The principal of school, Edwin Moses, pledged that the facility would be properly used and maintained.

Bayelsa State governor, Douye Diri
May 23, 2025

NNPCL empowers 531 NYSC members with grants, starter packs

The Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited has given N531,000 each to 531 NYSC members to make them self-reliant.

NYSC Corp members used to illustrate the story.
May 23, 2025

Lagos music teacher bags life sentence for defiling nine-year-old pupil

Mr Okeh was handed the sentence on Wednesday. Before his arrest, arraignment, conviction and sentencing, he was a music teacher and counsellor at Lachez O International School in Agege.

Kirikiri prison
May 22, 2025

Gov Yusuf clears N2.24 billion outstanding fees of 84 Kano students stranded in Cyprus

According to him, the abrupt suspension of the programme subjected the students to severe hardship. 

Kano Governor Abba Yusuf
May 22, 2025

Trump bars Harvard from enrolling international students

The Trump administration cancelled billions of dollars in funding from the Ivy League institution and threatened to revoke the tax-exempt status of the institution.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY
May 22, 2025

Two graduates jailed 30 years for abducting Ekiti varsity student

The two men, whose offences are to run for 15 years each, are to spend 10 years each in prison for kidnapping and five years each for conspiracy.

Prison bar
May 22, 2025

FIRS, partners plan tax sensitisation for pupils on Children’s Day

Ms Bello added that most people were unaware that taxes contributed considerably to the country’s Gross Domestic Product.

FIRS
May 22, 2025

Remi Tinubu announces donation of N100 million to art education initiative

First lady Oluremi Tinubu has donated N100 million to support an art education initiative in Nigeria.

Remi Tinubu