Head of Service Rivers state of Nigeria , Rufus Godwins, has urged Federal Government to reduce the number of universities in the country to enhance quality and performance. Godwins made the call at a public lecture organised by the `Claude Ake Chair of Political Economy’, in collaboration with the University of Port Harcourt on Wednesday. […]
Nigeria’s authorities have shut down three leading drugs companies after a BBC investigation into addiction to cough syrup containing codeine. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (Nafdac) said it shut the firms for failing to fully co-operate with its inspectors. The companies have not yet commented. The BBC investigation showed that […]
Malaria, a mosquito-borne parasitic infection that affects about 3.2 billion people in 95 countries, has become largely a disease of the young and poor. Due to effective medications like chloroquine and artemisinins, malaria deaths dropped an estimated 60 percent worldwide between 2000 and 2015. The Americas and Africa saw the greatest improvements. Still, 216 million […]
The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) is to partner USAID Nigeria on avenues that can be employed to boost the quality of education through Public Private Partnership (PPP). This is the outcome of a courtesy visit by the Acting Director General of the Commission, Engr. Chidi Izuwah to the USAID Education office Director, Croshelle Harris-Hussein. […]
Prof. Amidu Olalekan Sanni, the Vice Chancellor of Osogbo, Osun state, based Fountain University has appealed to the Federal Government to change the law which stipulates that only public owned tertiary institutions can benefit from Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TET-Fund). Prof Amidu made this appeal while addressing a press conference on the 10th anniversary of […]
The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF) says its has discarded the used of Scratch cards to access forms for application of various scholarships of the fund. The Fund in a statement signed by Mr Kalu Otisi, Head Press and Public Relations in Abuja also noted that it had also discarded writing of Aptitude test as […]
Some 214,952 candidates cheated in the May-June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and their results have been seized by the authorities. Mr. Olu Adenipekun, Head of National Office of the West African Examination Council, WAEC, announced this in Lagos as he also announced the cheering news of a seven percent improvement in the […]