Education

  From Our Special Correspondent in Sokoto   As Workers globally celebrated the 2021 Workers’ Day Celebrations on May 1, the newly recruited Secondary Schools’ Teachers in Sokoto State had bleak and dull celebrations sequel to the non payment of their outstanding four months salaries.   The newly recruited Teachers, …

  In an act of mindless evil and sheer wickedness, the armed bandits who kidnapped students of Greenfield University, have shot dead three of the abducted students. The armed bandits on Tuesday night kidnapped an unspecified number of students at the institution located at Kasarami village off Kaduna-Abuja Road in …

  Governor of Borno State, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum has advised the Vice Chancellor, University of Maiduguri, not to hide problems affecting the institution during his engagement with a Presidential visitation panel that is currently in Borno.     Zulum gave the advise on Thursday at the Government House in …

Muslim Community Presents Laptop To Students From The Shield Reporter In an efforts to move the  educational sector forward Muslim Community College of Health Science and Technology Funtua in Katsina state presented  Laptop Computers to the  Students  as a Gift. In a statement Signed by Abdullahi Lawal Maiyasin, Public Relations …

UBEC chairman: Borno is always first on paying counterpart funds      … Praises Zulum      Borno State Government is always the first to release counterpart funds, which states are required as show of commitment before states can access funds from the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC’s executive secretary, Dr. …

New teaching hospital: Zulum approves Egypt’s medical degrees for Borno’s science students     Preparing manpower for a new teaching hospital, Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara has directed the immediate identification of youths with science qualifications for admissions and government scholarship for Degrees in medicine and related programmes across …

Sokoto State Varsity graduates 1473 students, 36 First Class Degrees   By Our Special Correspondent in Sokoto   Sokoto State University, Sokoto, on Saturday, successfully churned out no fewer than 1473 students, out of which thirty six had First Class Degrees .   The University held its Maiden Combined 1st, …

Dantata Qwards Scholarships To 100 Less-Privileged Students At Al-Istiqama University Mustapha Imrana Abdullahi The chairman of Dantata Group of Companies and an elder statesman, Alhaji Aminu Dantata, has awarded 4-year full scholarships to 100 less-privileged students to study different courses at the newly established Al-Istiqama University, Sumaila. In a statement …

Onyeama, Embassy reveal how Zulum saved Nigerian medical student in Egypt     Minister of Foreign Affairs Geoffrey Onyeama alongside Charge d’Affaires, of the Nigerian Embassy in Cairo, Mr Bashir Ibrahim Ma’Aji, have revealed how Borno Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum saved the education of a Nigerian female medical student from Bauchi …

Education: Family donates 10,000 books to Indigent pupils in Sokoto     The renowned Balarabe Goronyo family, domiciled at the Kofar Bai Area, in Sokoto Metropolis, has donated over ten thousand exercise and textbooks to Indigent pupils of the Premier Waziri Model Primary School.     The historic event was …