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NECO Reschedules Ongoing SSCE Examinations

By Sahel Standard Magazine October 23, 2020 114 0

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has rescheduled some of its papers due to the current crisis across the country. In a statement issued by the Head of Information and Public Relations Division, Azeez Sani, the affected papers which were supposed to be written from Thursday 22 October 2020, Friday 23 October 2020 and Saturday 24 […]Continue Reading

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PHOTOS: Schools Resume in FCT

By Sahel Standard Magazine October 12, 2020 87 0

After several weeks of training for School Administrators and Head Teachers on the enforcement of the COVID-19 Protocols to prevent its spread in schools by the Federal Capital Territory Administration, students returned to classes at the Government Secondary School, Gwarimpa, Abuja.Continue Reading

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BREAKING: Buhari approves Special Salary for Teachers

By Sahel Standard Magazine October 5, 2020 160 0

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a special salary scale for teachers across the country. The approval coincided with commemoration of the World Teachers Day on October 5. He also increased the number of years of service from 35 to 40. Buhari stated these in Abuja on Monday during celebration of the 2020 World Teachers Day. […]Continue Reading

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ASUU: Between Goals and Strategies

By Sahel Standard Magazine October 5, 2020 168 0

Too many woods in the fire? Several battle fronts? Sufficient grounds for these struggles? Absolute Yes. Unfortunately, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is not a political party that can compete for, seize and use political power for the re-distribution of societal resources. As a trade union that it is, its weapons of pressure, […]Continue Reading

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UNICEF And Borno State To Partner To Protect Education From Boko Haram

By Sahel Standard Magazine September 9, 2020 134 2

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and Borno state governmentare to partner protect education from Boko Haram attacks, as schoolfacilities are destroyed by insurgents.The decade long insurgency, has claimed also 32,000 lives withproperty worth %9.2 billion (N3.52 trillion) in Borno, Adamawa andYobe states. Announcing joint protections Wednesday in Maiduguri; to Continue Reading

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Kano To Establish 130 Girl Secondary Schools

By Sahel Standard Magazine August 31, 2020 138 0

Kano State Government says it has concluded arrangements to establish additional 130 Girls Secondary Schools in the state. Sanusi Kiru, the state’s Commissioner of Education, made the disclosure in an interview with newsmen, on Sunday in Kano. Sanusi said the schools would be established in 24 selected Local Government Areas of the state, adding that […]Continue Reading

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BREAKING: Sanwo-Olu orders reopening of tertiary institutions Sept 14

By Sahel Standard Magazine August 29, 2020 184 0

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has ordered the reopening of tertiary institutions effective September 14. “I am pleased to announce that our tertiary institutions will be allowed to reopen from September 14, 2020, all our tertiary institutions,” the governor said during a briefing on Saturday at the State House, Marina. Schools in the country had […]Continue Reading

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Fed Poly, Ekowe Has Taken Tertiary Education To N/Delta Creeks — Rector

By Sahel Standard Magazine August 20, 2020 120 0

By Amos Odeh The Management of Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe, Bayelsa says the institution has taken Oil and Gas tertiary education to the creeks of Niger Delta in spite of its difficult terrain. The Rector of the institution, Dr. Seiyaboh Idah, speaking through his Executive Assistant, Mr. Alagba Ebiye, said on Wednesday in Yenagoa. Idah said […]Continue Reading

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Osun Reverts to 6-3-3-4 Education System

By Sahel Standard Magazine August 13, 2020 153 0

Osun State will revert to the 6-3-3-4 educational system, Commissioner for Information and Civic Orientation, Mrs. Funke Egbemode, has said. This followed recommendations of the Education Review White Paper on the restructuring and remodification of some education policies. Egbemode said the government would ensure recommendations were implemented to derive gains from the Continue Reading