Education

The Sierra Leone government’s decision to allow girls who are pregnant or have a child to attend school is an important step to improve education for girls in the country, Human Rights Watch said on Tuesday. On March...

President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, has said the out-of-school children is a big challenge facing Nigeria as a nation.According to the Senate President, the problem constitutes not only social but...

President of the Nigerian Senate, Ahmad Lawan, lamented on Monday that his country's education curricula were archaic, long overdue and unable to meet the demands of the 21st century.Senate President Lawan said...

Human Rights Watch is furious that the World Bank may approve $500 million education loan to Tanzania despite the government’s policy of expelling pregnant schoolgirls.On Tuesday, January 28, 2020, the World Bank Board of...

President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday in Abuja said the Federal Government is ready to engage more qualified teachers to increase the teacher-to-pupil ratio in the country.Receiving the leadership of the Nigeria Union of...

President Muhammadu Buhari Thursday in Abuja said Federal Government will give more attention to improving personnel and infrastructure of universities to produce quality graduates, assuring  that education will, henceforth, be a top priority in development goals...

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa has hailed the 81,3% matric pass rate; the highest since the advent of democracy in 1994. This is the first time the combined matric pass rate has breached the 80%...

The Speaker of the House of Representatives Rep Femi Gbajabiamila has said that Nigerian universities must do a lot of work within to be able to entrench good reforms.The Speaker said sustainable...

It was the biggest news in Nigeria on Wednesday morning, that the President's daughter, Aisha Hanan Buhari Jnr, had bagged a degree in photography from a university in the United Kingdom with a First Class.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday in Daura, Katsina State, said Nigeria’s socio-economic and political salvation will come from education, urging citizens to embrace learning as a way of life while the government will do its best...