Education

In a vibrant celebration of innovation, collaboration, and youth-driven problem-solving, Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) and South Korea International Cooperation Alumni of Nigeria (SKICAN) successfully hosted the 2025 edition of the Capstone Project Program in Abuja, Nigeria's capital. Delivering the keynote address on behalf of Mr. Kim Eunsub, Country Director, KOICA, Mr. Godwin Okwoche commended the initiative, emphasizing that the Capstone Project is a SKICAN-inspired program funded by KOICA to enhance digital literacy and transform teaching and learning experience in schools across the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). He encouraged the students present at the event to actively apply the knowledge…

By Emma Ogoigbe, Warri Rector of Delta State Polytechnic, Otefe-Oghara, Ethiope West Local Government Area (LGA) of Delta State, South-South Nigeria, Professor Emmanuel Ufuophu-Biri, has reaffirmed his commitment to providing qualitative and standard education to students of the institution. Furthermore, he promised to maintain high academic standards. Professor Ufuophu-Biri, who gave the assurances during the 2025 combined convocation ceremony at the school in Otefe-Oghara, assured that the institution would continue to excel in producing highly skilled manpower for the country's development. He revealed that there are many laudable programmes and innovations that would be unfurled and implemented to improve the…

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Ajayi Crowther University Alumni Association (ACUAA) has expanded its global network with the launch of new branches in three countries, including the United States of America (USA), Canada, and the United Kingdom (UK). The association has also launched new branches in Abuja, Lagos, and Ibadan, the Oyo State capital. These were contained in a statement signed by the association's president, Busoye Ogunlade, and made available to journalists in Ibadan on Monday, March 24. Ogunlade said the alumni inaugurated new executives that would run the affairs of the organisation in the aforementioned countries and states for the…

By Idibia Gabriel, Kaduna An academic institution, Outstanding Groomers Academy Nursery and Primary School in Makera, Kaduna State, has hosted the Tobacco and Substance Abstinence Club, an initiative designed to teach children the dangers of substance misuse at an early age. The program, led by internationally recognized Substance Use Disorder (SUD) prevention professional and 2024 Ecolink Institute of Well-being Award winner, Margaret Kwa'ada Julius, introduced poetry as a powerful tool for engaging children in prevention education. Research has indicated that children in Nigeria are often exposed to smoking and local alcohol at a young age, sometimes as a means to…

By Stephen Gbadamosi, Ibadan Oyo State governor, 'Seyi Makinde, has declared that his government will continue to support educational advancement, both locally and internationally, as education remains one of the major pillars of his administration. The governor maintained that his government has been doing a lot of things in the education sector towards improving primary, secondary and tertiary education in the state, adding that it also believes that foreign education can help the state achieve its vision of economic expansion and development. Governor Makinde, who was represented by his Chief of Staff, Otunba Segun Ogunwuyi, made this statement on Friday,…

Prominent public school in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Model Secondary School (MSS), Maitama, known for its academic excellence and discipline, has appointed new student leaders. The new prefects will serve for the 2025/2026 academic session, taking on the responsibility of maintaining order and upholding the school’s values. At the official decoration ceremony, the Director/Principal of the school, Dr. Judith Olure, emphasized the significance of student leadership, stating that the transition was necessary as the outgoing prefects in Senior Secondary (SS) 3 prepare for their West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and National Examinations Council (NECO) examinations scheduled for May this…

By our reporter Forty-two years after introduction of the 6-3-3-4 education model, the Federal Government (FG) has consigned it to history. 6-3-3-4 birthed the Junior Secondary School (JSS) and Senior Secondary School (SSS) models in the country, with students undergoing three years in each stage before moving on to higher education. To replace it, FG on Thursday, February 6, 2025, introduced a compulsory 12-year uninterrupted basic education model. Now, it is after this that a Nigerian child can aspire to higher education,in a model henceforth to be known as the 12-4 model. The 6-3-3-4 was introduced in Nigeria in 1983,though…

By Sylvia Kodilichukwu, Enugu A group, Corporate Accountability and Public Participation Africa (CAPPA), has called on the Federal Government (FG) and Trustees of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) to abandon plans to restrict access of the loan to specific courses deemed “high demand” and “practical” to national development. The organisation described this potential direction of the policy as discriminatory, clear manifestation of the increasing commercialisation of public education, and a betrayal of the Fund’s original mandate to ensure access to higher education for all, not just a privileged few. Speaking during a virtual event titled 'Student Loan Masterclass', hosted…