Contrary to insinuations in some quarters that the just-completed yellow fever vaccination exercise conducted in Bauchi State is to serve as COVID-19 vaccination, the Executive Secretary, Bauchi State Primary Health Care Development Agency (BSPHCDA), Dr Rilwanu Mohammed, has declared that yellow fever vaccines are not the same as COVID-19 vaccines. …

The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases on the African continent stood at 3,515,047 as of Friday, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) said. According to the health agency’s dashboard, the death toll related to the pandemic in Africa was 89,993 on Friday. A total of 2,990,890 …

UNN postgraduate hostel accommodation notice. The management of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) has released the hostel application commencement date for the newly admitted and returning Postgraduate Students for 2019/2020 academic session. This is to inform all Postgraduate Students of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) that the management …

The attention of the Dean, Postgraduate School, Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, and the entire University community has been drawn to a fake advertisement being circulated by some criminally minded unknown persons that there are study centres of the Ignatius Ajuru University of Education in Ondo …

It is another Friday and TGIF. The weekend is meant for rest especially after a long week of work, it is okay to relax and have some Netflix and chill moments. There are new films on Netflix and some old ones that are absolutely interesting. See below for some films …

The general public and candidates who chose Federal University of Technology, Owerri (FUTO) as First Choice University in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) are aware that the University Portal  has been open since August 4, 2020 for the registration of the 2020/2021 PUTME screening …

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs to lead the deployment of a National Plan to address the issue of out-of-school children in Nigeria. He inaugurated the 18-member Presidential Steering Committee on Alternate School Programme (ASP) on Tuesday in Abuja. The team is co-chaired by the Ministers …

The Delta State House of Assembly has passed the first reading of bills for the establishment of three new universities. The bills are for the creation of Delta State University of Education, Agbor; Delta State University of Science and Agriculture, Asaba; and Delta State University of Science and Technology, Ozoro. …

The Kaduna State government has instructed all secondary schools in the State to reopen for academic sessions on February 1, 2021. Kaduna’s Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Education, Mrs Phoebe Yayi, disclosed this in a statement made available to newsmen on Friday. Yari explained that only Senior Secondary School …

he Nigeria Wrestling Federation (NWF) have announced plans to get the country’s wrestlers ready for the Africa/Oceania Olympic qualifying tournament from April 2 to 4, and the preceding 2021 African Championships from April 6 to 11, both in El Jadida, Morocco. Team Nigeria wrestlers returned to action for the first …