The Isa Kaita College of Education, Dutsinma, Katsina, in partnership with the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Kano Field Office, will train about 20,000 youths across the state in Artificial Intelligence (AI). Malam Halilu Ahmed, UNICEF’s focal person at the college, revealed this on Monday, August 18, 2025, at a training on the adoption of
The staff of the Kaduna State College of Nursing Sciences have embarked on a 3-day strike on Monday, August 18, 2025. According to the college’s workers’ union, the strike followed what they described as the management’s refusal to promote eligible staff from 2023 to 2025. The strike halted the institution’s academic and non-academic activities across
A private school in Ogbomoso, Oyo State, has unveiled a new Computer-Based Test (CBT) centre, making it the second-largest such facility in Nigeria. The 700-capacity centre, located at Zoe Schools’ Abaa branch, adds to an existing 150-seat facility already accredited by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC). It is designed to host students for internal
Dr. Bello Zakariyau Adebayo, Head of Biology at Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, has warned that Nigeria’s education system will continue to suffer unless urgent reforms are made in the training of teachers. Speaking in an interview, Dr. Adebayo said the biggest problem is that teaching is not treated as a true profession. Unlike
Dr. Bello Zakariyau Adebayo, Head of the Department of Biology at Kwara State College of Education, Ilorin, has called for sweeping reforms in Nigeria’s teacher education system to address declining standards and restore dignity to the profession. In an interview, Adebayo blamed the sector’s challenges on a lack of professionalisation, weak regulation, and public bias
Baptist Academy, Lagos, one of the oldest educational institutions in Nigeria, has continued to make good its promise of building students who are values-driven in education, arming them with all the necessary skills to excel locally and internationally, across various fields of endeavour. These are the claims of Olumide Ajomale, President of the Baptist Academy
The Kaduna State College of Education has become one of the first institutions in Nigeria to deploy the TETFund Blackboard Learning Management System. The platform, developed in partnership with education technology company Anthology Blackboard, is designed to improve online teaching and learning in public tertiary institutions. Unveiled in 2023, the project aims to standardise digital
Ogbomoso High School’s best academic students have been rewarded with various gifts by some old students in recognition of their excellent performances in the last academic session. The major donor, Nathaniel Adewole, a clergy and medical doctor, who graduated from the school in 1984, gave nine awards to the best students in English language, Mathematics,
In some Lagos classrooms, teenagers are not only solving equations and memorising Shakespeare. They are also making sales, managing accounts, pitching to investors, and running real businesses — all before they leave secondary school. It is part of a quiet shift in private education: moving from teaching business theory to building actual businesses. In these
“Sir, I know I will never make it in life. My teacher already told me.” Those words came from a teenage boy after class. His eyes were steady, but his voice was empty. The teacher had not beaten him or suspended him. He had only spoken, but his words killed the boy’s dream. The boy
