Some public secondary schools in Imo State are reportedly charging students N2,000 per subject to provide them with answers to questions in the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The school owners met with students before the commencement of the examination where they informed them that they would provide Read more…
Senior Secondary School 3 students across the country on Monday commenced the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination. It was gathered that the students wrote their first subject, Mathematics, amid tight Covid-19 protocol including social distancing, use of face masks and hand washing. The Federal Government had earlier in Read more…
National Examination Council of Nigeria (NECO) MANUAL ON GUIDELINES FOR PREPARATION OF SCHOOLS FOR CONDUCT OF PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS IN THE CONTEXT OF COVID-19 Section 1: Roles and Responsibilities of Public and Private School Proprietors 1. Special orientation to school teachers, and other relevant officials involved in school administration on safety Read more…
A-level and GCSE students in England will be handed exam grades as predicted by their teachers instead of a controversial algorithm, Ofqual has announced. The move marks a stark U-turn by both Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, and comes after growing fury from pupils and Tory Read more…
Rivers Commissioner for Education Prof. Kaniye Ebeku has directed immediate removal of principals of Community Secondary school, Elibrada S.I. Amadi and community Secondary school, Rumuji, C.O. Ekwueme in Emohua Local Government Area. The principals were accused of flagrant disobedience of directives of the State Government on enforcement of all COVID-19 Read more…
Barely 48 hours after the reopening of schools for graduating students, two schools have been shut by the Ondo State Government for violating the COVID-19 guidelines for resumption of classes. The schools, C.A.C Grammar School in Akure and the Akure Academy Secondary School in Oba Ile, were sealed during the Read more…
The Edo State Government has said secondary schools in the state will resume August 10 as against August 4 that was announced by the Federal Ministry of Education for graduating students. A statement signed by the Commissioner for Education, Hon. Jimoh Ijegbai, said the delay was to enable operators of Read more…
National Vice President of the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPPS, South-South, Dr. Akpeme Ochukwu, has faulted the compulsory fumigation of schools before resumption as directed by the state governments, stressing that it does not kill COVID-19. Recalled that the Delta State government announced that final year students Read more…
GOVERNMENT SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT The Abia State Governor, Okezie Victor Ikpeazu, Ph.D. has received the Report of the Committee on the supposed employments without waiver at the Secondary Education Management Board (SEMB). The Governor has equally noted the submissions of the Committee to the effect that out of the 5,853 people Read more…
SPECIAL GOVERNMENT ANNOUCEMENT Following satisfactory preparation for the re-opening of schools in Rivers State, the State Governor His Excellency Governor Nyesom Wike, has approved the re-opening of schools in the state for the purpose of allowing candidates in exit classes to revise with their teachers and write their exit examinations. Read more…
Following the resumption of terminal class students in Lagos State, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Mrs. Abosede Adelaja, her Education District 1 counterpart, Barrister Margaret Titilayo Solarin, school principals, teachers and some stakeholders in the education sector embarked on monitoring of the compliance level to COVID-19 protocols Read more…
WAEC RELEASES TIMETABLE FOR THE CONDUCT OF WEST AFRICAN SENIOR SCHOOL CERTIFICATE EXAMINATION (WASSCE) FOR SCHOOL CANDIDATES, 2020 The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria wishes to inform its stakeholders-schools, parents and candidate-that the Final International Timetable for the conduct of WASSCE for School Candidates, 2020 has been released. The Read more…
The Federal Capital Territory Administration has announced the reopening of schools for students in final year classes. Students in JSS3 and SS3 are expected to return to school on August 4 to begin preparation for their final examinations, the FCTA said. The announcement was made Monday by the FCT’s Department Read more…
The 104 unity schools will reopen to SS3 students from tomorrow, Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has said. The Minister made the announcement at the end of a virtual meeting with Commissioners of Education in 36 States and other stakeholders on Monday. In a statement by the Director, Read more…
The Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, says private school owners are entitled to charge fees for the third term as schools start resuming for exit classes. Mr Nwajiuba said this at the media briefing of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic on Monday in Read more…
Ahead of August 4th, 2020, Minister of State for Education, Hon. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba has announced that all the 104 Unity Colleges are ready to open their gates to exit classes tomorrow – Read Full Speech UNITY COLLEGE READY TO REOPEN Ahead of August qbi, 2020, Minister of State for Education, Read more…
An Islamic human rights organisation, the Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has rejected the examination timetable recently released by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for the conduct of the 2020 West African Secondary School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE). WAEC scheduled the examinations to begin on Tuesday, August 11 but MURIC said Read more…
Oyo State chapter of the Socialist Party of Nigeria (SPN), has declared that cancellation of third term of 2019/ 2020 academic session without provisions for makeup compromises education standard in the state. NNN recalls that Oyo State Government under the leadership of Engineer Seyi Makinde had last month released the Read more…
Ogun state government has announced that the COVID-19 test requirement for SSS 3 boarding students will be free for state-owned public schools. This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by Ronke Soyombo, special adviser to the governor on basic and secondary education. The state had announced on Friday Read more…
The Ogun State Government has been accused of asking graduating secondary school students to pay N25,000 each before they could be allowed to resume. The Ogun State Government has been accused of asking graduating secondary school students to pay N25,000 each before they could be allowed to resume. SaharaReporters had Read more…
Ogun State Government on Sunday said no student would be admitted into boarding facilities in private or public schools without negative COVID-19 test certificates. It said the certification will serve as requirements for operations of boarding facilities in secondary schools as SS3 students resume on Monday. Special Adviser to Governor Read more…
Preparatory to the planned resumption of terminal class students, the Lagos State Government has intensified the periodic fumigation/ decontamination of all public secondary schools. A press release by the Permanent Secretary, Office of Environmental Services, Mrs. Aderonke Odeneye on Saturday stated that majority of the public secondary schools in the Read more…
As the Federal Government makes plans to reopen educational institutions which were closed down so as to curb the spread of the Covid19 pandemic, a school in Borno state is being utilized as a poultry farm. The Covid pandemic caused the implementation of an emergency lockdown all over countries across Read more…