The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has redeployed a corps member, Mr. Michael Uwakwe, from Zamfara to Anambra, following his assault by a police officer.
The NYSC Director, Corps Welfare and Inspectorate, Mrs. Victoria Okakwu, stated this in Abuja, Wednesday.
Okakwu said the corps member was redeployed to ensure his safety during the national assignment.For more info-- http:///2n2FmDg

The Administrator, Grace Schools, Gbagada, Lagos, Mrs. Tokunbo Edun, has said that the Nigerian curriculum is the most appropriate to teach Nigerian pupils because it reflects the culture and norms of the Nigerian society and lead to the overall development of Nigerian pupils.

Edun, who said this in a statement on Thursday, also urged educationists to ensure that teaching and learning did not only transform but also broaden pupils’ worldview.

She said, “Educationists must ensure the commitment of their schools to quality education in order to produce well-rounded pupils. The focus should be, how to provide pupils with requisite skills to compete favourably with their counterparts from any part of the globe.’’http:///2kdM2xH

Adebayo Gbadamosi, the chairman of the Kwara State branch of the National Association of Blind People in Nigeria, has said the high cost of Braille machines is affecting the education of the blind in the country.

Gbadamosi said in Ilorin that the machines were now very expensive for blind people to afford for their learning and working.

The chairman noted that parents of blind children could not afford the product that was currently being sold for N150,000 a set.

Gbadamosi said: “It is not easy for parents to get scholarship for our members and blind children because many come from poor families.http:///2l42fVn

A new state-of-the-art complex has been added to the ultra-modern facilities at the Sports Institute that further beautifies the skyline of the University. The new complex would house a sports science laboratory and the first anti-doping laboratory that is presently not available on any other university campus in West Africa.

Speaking before commissioning the new edifice at the Sports Institute, which attracted both international and national sports administrators last Tuesday, Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Administration), Professor Anthony Ibe, who stood in for the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Ndowa Lale, said the Management was overwhelmed by the completion and handover of the complex to the University, preparations for the commencement of full academic and administrative activities.http:///2kzZQ3M

Macquarie University is offering Africa Development Scholarship to pursue undergraduate and postgraduate programme. African students are eligible to apply for this scholarship.

Recognized internationally, Macquarie University is consistently ranked in the top two percent of universities in the world and within the top 10 in Australia.

It has been designed to recognise academic excellence and provide financial assistance for international students.

Some lecturers in the Wesley University, Ondo, Ondo State have threatened to sue the institution over the alleged inability of the latter to pay their salaries for over 12 months

According to some of the aggrieved lecturers, the institution owed some of them 10 months salaries, some 13 while some were owed as much as 17 months salaries.

They lamented that nothing was being done by the management of the institution to pay the salary arrears.

Schoolannex gathered that some of the lecturers of the institution had been suspended by the authorities of the varsity.http:///2kWKpDM

New students of the Lagos State University (LASU) have benefited from the orientation powered by the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria, LASU branch (MSSN-LASU).

The event, which held at the institution’s MBA Hall in Ojo campus was titled: ‘The true ambassadors: Muslim students as a focus’.

One of the speakers, Prof. L. M. Adetona of Religious Studies Department, who spoke on the topic: ‘Propagating Al-Islam: The role of an undergraduate,’ urged the students to always create time for the work of Allah and serve him more.

Army spokesman, Brigadier General Sani Usman says another Chibok schoolgirl has been found, one of the 219 stolen by Boko Haram insurgents on 14 April 2014.

She will be the 23rd to be recovered so far, since the Buhari administration came into office.

Details soon…http:///2lkAvcK

Lecturers in our nation’s federal and state polytechnics went on what they tagged “warning strike” last week to protest the non-implementation of their demands including the 2010 agreement which is overdue for renegotiation since 2013.

The five-day strike by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has come and gone but it may take the polytechnic system weeks to recover from its impact, namely the disruption of academic calender.

This is because most of the polytechnics have just started their first semester academic programmes while very few are still battling with 2015/2016 academic session before they were caught up in the industrial dispute between the union and government.

Education stakeholders’ in Abuja on Tuesday have called on the Federal Government to as a matter of urgency declare a state of emergency in the sector to give room for massive investment.

Mr Simeon Abiina, founder of Elshadai Kiddies Varsity said adequate investment in the education sector would make the teaching profession more attractive.

According to him, 20 per cent of the budget should go to the sector as this will increase investment in the research institute, training and retraining of manpower.

“There should be a deliberate policy on the part of the Federal Government to develop the technical know-how, manpower and research institutes to forestall non-professionalism.

“Government should help improve on the sector by declaring a state of emergency and investing in the sector.

Teachers at the Federal Government Girls College, Calabar, on Tuesday staged a peaceful protest to the Cross River House of Assembly over alleged assault by officers of Department of State Service (DSS). The teachers, under the umbrella of Trade Union Congress (TUC), Cross River chapter, said they were in the assembly to register their grievances over an event that occurred in the school on Feb. 2. Mr Clarkson Otu, the state Chairman of TUC, who spoke on behalf of the teachers, said they came to demand for a thorough investigation of the matter and to call for justice. For more info--- http:///2jYCfeL

The management of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, has, in a new dress code it issued to the students of the institution, banned tight-fitting clothes such as tight pair of trousers, mini-skirts, blouses and other body revealing ones. In a circular to the undergraduates, the school said, “all clothes, which reveal sensitive parts of the body such as the bust, chest, belly, upper arms and the buttocks. Example of such dresses are transparent clothing, spaghetti tops, tubes and. Skirts and dresses with slits above the knees fall in this category.For more info---http:///2ljJKZY