Public and private primary and secondary schools in Lagos are to resume for the second term in the 2021/2022 academic session on Tuesday, January 4th, 2022. A statement by the Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, said all students are expected back in school as academic activities will start same day. The statement added that…
The Lagos State Government has shut down Bab Fafunwa Millennium School in Ojodu, formerly known as Ojodu Grammar School until January 2022. This followed a protest by students of the school and some parents over the crushing of some students of the school yesterday by a trailer. Commissioner for Education, Folashade Adefisayo, announced the closure when she…
The management of the University of Abuja has ordered twenty-four-hour security patrol within and around the campus of the institution. The security team has been strengthened with the recruitment of hunters and local vigilantes to patrol in areas that are not fenced. This comes after repeated attacks by armed men and successful kidnapping of some lecturers and…
A lecturer at the Kwara State University, Pelumi Adewale, has been asked to go home because of a case of sexual harassment. This comes nearly two months after Adewale was dragged before a Magistrate’s Court in Ilorin on September 11, 2021. The Vice-Chancellor of the university, Mustapha Akanbi, announced that a female student, identified as Tosin Adegunsoye,…
The West African Examinations Council has released the results of the 2021 Senior School Certificate Examination. The Head of the Nigeria National Office of WAEC, Patrick Areghan, announced the results one month and two weeks after the end of the examination on October 8. Areghan said over one point five million candidates sat for the examination in…
Public and private schools in Lagos State have been directed to close for midterm break for one week, beginning from the first day of November, which is on Monday next week. This was announced by the Director-General of the Office of Education Quality Assurance in the Lagos Ministry of Education, Abiola Seriki-Ayeni. In a statement, Seriki-Ayeni explained…