Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) Project has completed 94 out of its 161 planned activities for the 2025 fiscal year in Sokoto State, with over ₦8.4 billion already expended, the State Project Coordinator, Dr. Mansur Buhari, has disclosed. Dr. Buhari made this known during a media...
Education
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s education sector reforms are creating real opportunities for young Nigerians, and ensuring access, stability and quality across Nigerian universities. The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, stated when he received the Vice Chancellor of Yakubu Gowon University, Abuja (formerly University of Abuja), Professor...
Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have formally signed and unveiled a new agreement designed to strengthen Nigeria’s university education system and promote long-term industrial harmony. According to a report by Channels Television, the agreement replaces the controversial 2009 pact, which had been at the...
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has approved the immediate employment of 81 top graduating students of Kashim Ibrahim University (KIU), most of whom hold first-class and second-class upper degrees. Zulum announced the approval during the university’s maiden combined convocation ceremony on Saturday, an event graced by high-level...
Vice President Kashim Shettima has observed that there is no investment in education that is a gamble, saying the the education sector remains a deliberate commitment to securing a better future for Nigeria. He described education as the most powerful tool for development, economic empowerment, and societal liberation. Speaking...
Borno State Governor Babagana Umara Zulum on Monday presented a N890,331,686,000.00 budget proposal for the 2026 fiscal year to the State House of Assembly, with the education sector receiving the highest single-sector allocation of N135 billion. Tagged the “Budget of Sustained Recovery and Growth,” it places the capital expenditure...
Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lieutenant General Waidi Shaibu, has commissioned the newly remodelled Government Girls Day Secondary School (GGDSS), Maradun Local Government Area of Zamfara State. The landmark project, executed under the COAS Special Intervention Civil-Military Cooperation (CIMIC) initiative, reflects the Nigerian Army’s unwavering commitment to promoting education...
Nasarawa State and Angola’s Bengo Province have taken a significant step towards sub-national cooperation, signing a bilateral partnership agreement. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) covers key areas like human capital development, agriculture, skills acquisition, investment promotion, and solid minerals development. The signing ceremony took place at the Government House...
The Vice President, Senator Kashim Shettima, has flagged off the Aliko Dangote Foundation Education Scholarship Initiative, with a call for stakeholders to recommit to building a future where every Nigerian child can become the best version of themselves. This is just as the President of the Foundation, Alhaji Aliko...
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, on Wednesday, declared open the 28th Quarterly Meeting of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), stating that the State Government invested over N53.6 billion in education sector in 2025. The meeting, which brings together Executive Chairmen and management of State Universal Basic...
Nigeria’s education budget has jumped to ₦3.52 trillion in 2025 under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration, which is a significant increase from ₦1.54 trillion in 2023. Vice President Kashim Shettima @officialSKSM , who stated this in Tuesday in Abuja, said that the number of out-of-school children in the country...
A regional workshop on Open Education Resources (OER) Practices in the age of Artificial intelligence (AI) begins in Abuja on Tuesday to ascertain new opportunities, possible risks, and emerging good practice that Al introduces to the creation, curation, and sharing of OER. Speaking at the opening ceremony, the Vice...
Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum, has reaffirmed his administration’s commitment to expanding learning opportunities for indigent students from Borno and Nigerian refugees in Cameroon. The Governor stated this during a visit to the University of Maroua in Far North Region of Cameroon Republic as part of his...
Universal Basic Education Commission, (UBEC) has expressed its full readiness to partner with the Nigerian Air Force, NAF, to ensure safer school environment across the country. The Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr Aisha Garba stated this during a courtesy visit to the Commission by the Chief of Air Staff...
Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani on Monday presented the 2026 Appropriation Bill of Kaduna State to the State House of Assembly, outlining a spending plan anchored on security, human capital development, rural transformation and fiscal discipline. Presenting the proposal at Lugard Hall, the Governor said the budget was not...
National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC) has rolled out the National Minimum Standards for secondary education with a charge on state governments to implement it. Executive Secretary of the Commission, Dr. Iyela Ajayi, who stated this during an interaction with journalists in Abuja, said that NSSEC is determined to...
Akwa Ibom lawmaker, Kufreabasi Edidem has pledged to partner with the state government to improve science education in secondary schools. Edidem, who is the Deputy Speaker of the Akwa Ibom House of Assembly and represents Itu State constituency, stated this during the grand finale of the maiden Arise quiz...
Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has reaffirmed commitment to strengthening partnerships and collaboration with public agencies and private entities towards achieving its mandate of ensuring that all Nigerian children of school age have access to quality basic education, irrespective of their socio-economic background. Executive Secretary of the Commission, Aisha...
Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has dismissed reports suggesting that all government schools in the FCT would shut down on Nov. 28, describing the claim as entirely fabricated. Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, issued a statement in...
Borno State Governor, Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum, on Monday personally visited scholarship students undergoing their studies in India, in a move that underscores his hands-on approach to governance, The Governor who is on an official visit to India, first met with beneficiaries of the Borno State scholarship scheme at...