In a bid to ensure a conducive learning environment for children in Lagos, Human Development Initiatives (HDI) has trained representatives of School Based Management Committee (SBMC) on promoting the rights of children in schools. The two day training was conducted…
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has urged the 36 state governors to “immediately redirect public funds budgeted to pay ex-governors undeserved pensions and other retirement benefits, and for ‘security votes’, and to use some of the savings to pay…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has assured candidates who were unable to sit for the examination on Saturday, June 19, 2021 due to technical challenges that it will reschedule a new date for the affected candidates. Technical challenges…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), has threatened to embark on another strike following Federal Government’s refusal to pay the salaries and remittance of check-off dues of over 1000 university lecturers for 13 months. Chairman of ASUU, University of…
By IJEOMA UKAZU | “There are children out there who are vulnerable to violence, exposed to danger, forced into labour, some of them are not in school. I believe every African child has the right to go to school. More…
Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Mr Sony Echono has explained the Federal Government measures and commitment to reduce the number of out-of-school children in Nigeria. He said that government was not resting on its oars in getting out-of-school children…
By Sagir Muhammed The commissioner of police, Lagos state command, Hakeem Odumosu, has assured school proprietors, principals, as well as the Lagos state ministry of education of its resolve to secure school premises as well as perimeters surrounding school environment…
There is prospect Nigerians keen on knowing details of how Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) funds are disbursed and spent by the Delta State Government may soon have some answers, as Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has won the…
Kenneth Afor | Various stakeholders in the Lagos State education sector has identified pressing issues facing safe reopening of schools in the state, as they call for urgent attention from the state government to address the issues before schools reopen…
Kenneth Afor | The Lagos State Government in partnership with First Bank of Nigeria Limited launched a N5 billion post-COVID-19 support fund for low-cost private schools in the state to buffer the economic effect caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. This…
