The Ministry of Education has denied reports circulating in the public space that a History textbook titled ‘Living History’ has been approved for use in Nigerian schools, describing such claims as misleading and inaccurate.In a statement issued on Monday by the Director of Press and Public Relations at the Ministry
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Following a truce between it and the Student Union Government (SUG), the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) at the weekend, approved a 60 per cent increase in sundry charges for her students for the 2025/2026 academic session.Students and management of the institution had been on collision course over an initial
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The federal government has unveiled a renegotiated agreement with Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), describing it as a turning point in the effort to restore stability, trust, and quality in Nigeria’s tertiary education system.The new deal yesterday received commendations from Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic
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The Oxford English Dictionary has added several Nigerian-origin words in its latest update, reflecting the growing global influence of the nation’s language, culture and cuisine.The December 2025 update, released on the OED website on Wednesday, features more than 500 new words, phrases and senses, including internet slang such as “DM”,
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Special Adviser to the President on Media and Communication, Sunday Dare, has said that the remaining 130 students abducted from St. Mary’s Catholic Primary and Secondary School in Papiri, Niger State, regained their freedom on Sunday, bringing to an end one of Nigeria’s largest recent mass school kidnappings.Dare disclosed this
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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT has directed the immediate suspension of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) Mandate Secretary for Education, Danlami Hayyo, over the directive on school closure in FCT on or before November 28. In a statement issued on Tuesday, Lere Olayinka, Senior Special Assistant on
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Terrorists in the early hours of Friday morning, stormed St. Mary’s Papiri Private Catholic Secondary School, Papiri, in Agwara Local Government Area of Niger State, abducting an unspecified number of students and teachers.Community residents who visited the school after the attack confirmed the invasion.The invasion is considered a coordinated operation
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The Kwara State Government has directed the closure of all schools across four local government areas following rising insecurity in parts of the state.The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) Chairman, Yusuf Agboola Kwara State chapter, announced the development in a statement issued on Wednesday.Agboola announced the closure of schools in
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Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has presented permanent and pensionable appointment letters to 400 newly recruited Mathematics teachers across the state’s secondary schools.According to a statement by the Governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature Dawakin Tofa, the governor said the recruitment is a direct response to subject gaps affecting performance and
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A brave schoolgirl who was abducted alongside 24 peers from a dormitory in Kebbi School has escaped.According to the principal of the Government Girls Comprehensive Secondary School, in the northwestern Kebbi state, the student arrived home late Monday.She escaped hours after the kidnapping, said Principal Musa Rabi Magaji.One other student,
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