Ontario earmarks $190m to create jobs for students, graduates
By Femi SHODUNKE CANADA: ONTARIO government is to invest about $190 million (N62.1 billion) in the next three years to create 40,000 real world learning opportunities for students and recent graduates through the Career Kick-Start Strategy The fund is part of the money set aside by government in the 2017 budget, GatewayMail gathered on […]
Scotland based Nigerian counsels on education
By Olusola AJIBIKE (Abeokuta) NIGERIA: A SCOTLAND based Nigerian has offered suggestions on how to revamp the nation’s educational system. Sam Abayomi Soyombo, a Career Consultant on Skills Development, stated that for Nigeria to improve the obvious index of multiple deprivations in her education approach it must adapt the tiered education system to cater for […]
Osun Assembly orders recall of 36 sacked college lecturers
NIGERIA: OSUN State House of Assembly has recommended the reinstatement of 36 lecturers, who were recently sacked by the Governing Council of the state College of Education, Ila Orangun. The directive to this effect was contained in a statement made available to GatewayMail in Osogbo, the state capital, on Wednesday by the Chairman, House Committee […]
TETFUND scribe makes case for education as priority
NIGERIA: FROM the Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Professor Suleiman Elias Bogoro, has come a charge to state governments in the country. The executive secretary wants the second level of government to prioritise education and make it a first line charge in their budgets. Bogoro, while delivering the 10th anniversary lecture […]
Saraki extols Unilorin’s academic contributions to Nigeria at 40
NIGERIA: SENATE President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has commended the giant contributions of the University of Ilorin to academic excellence in the country, Africa and the world. Saraki stressed that the contributions of the alumnus of the university to the Nigerian project cannot be underestimated. The Senate President, who made the remarks on his Facebook […]
Ogun education graduate emerges winner of ICT training in China
NIGERIA: A FORMER graduate of Tai Solarin University of Education, Ijagun, Ijebu-Ode in Ogun State, Miss Adeyemi Oriyomi Elizabeth, has emerged winner of a two-week enhanced skill training programme in China. The Director of Information Technology, South West Resource Centre, Mrs. Olatundun Adekunte, made this known in Abeokuta that the programme was put together […]
Use ICT to fight Boko Haram, PR experts advise Buhari, others
NIGERIA: THE public relations egg-heads in the nation’s colleges of education have advised President Muhammadu Buhari, and other tiers of government, on how to tackle Boko Haram insurgency in the country. They suggested that the time has come for government to take another approach in the war against terrorism by using Information and Communication […]
Offa Fedpoly, council partner on CPN membership
NIGERIA: THE FEDERAL Polytechnic Offa and the Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN) have entered into partnership to encourage full membership of the staff and students of the Polytechnic Computer Science Department into the Council. This decision was reached at a recent visit of the Council to the polytechnic management. The CPN team, […]
Rector tasks engineering, technology sector on youth unemployment, others
NIGERIA: RECTOR of The Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Dr. Mufutau Olatinwo, has a task for the major stakeholders in the engineering and technology sector. The Rector wants them to proffer pragmatic solutions to youth unemployment, insecurity and epileptic power supply using the emerging trends in Engineering and Technology. Dr. Olatinwo gave this charge at the […]
Ban Ki-Moon pleads for world peace
NIGERIA: FROM the Secretary-General of the world body, United Nations (UN), has come message of peace to warring factions in diffent countries. Ki-Moon pleaded with warring parties on any differing issues to often exercise restraints in the overall interest of peace. He always charged them to consider the need for one nation as a […]
