EDUCATION

ILARO-YEWA – Stakeholders in the educational sector have been called upon to channel Technology and Vocational Education Training to solve unemployment, poverty, insurgency and banditry ravaging the country. The immediate past Executive Secretary, National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Dr. Masa’ud Adamu Kazaure disclosed this recently in his lecture, titled, …

ABEOKUTA – Ogun State Ministry of Education, Science and Technology has said that the sales of application forms into the 42 flagship public secondary schools for 2021/2022 academic session will close on Friday, August 6, 2021. According to a release e-signed and made available to StarTrend Int’l & online – …

BENIN CITY – The Edo State Government has suspended the Principal of Edo College, Mr. Peter Edomwonyi over the maltreatment and abused of a student of the school that recently went viral on social media. According to a release e-signed and made available to the media by Osarodion Ogie Esq., …

ABEOKUTA – The Chairman, Ogun State Teaching Service Commission, Evang. Olalekan Ifede has admonished teachers in public schools to instill their professional skills in classrooms and also inculcate disciplines on the students, so as to extinct truancy, misconduct and misbehaviour in schools across the State. Ifede made this known while …

OGUN STATE – Yewa G6 Ambassadors Club, a socio-cultural organisation in Ogun State, has faulted report by an online media, Platform Times on Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, MAPOLY, Abeokuta rectorship issue. According to a statement e-signed by Amb. Biodun Fabuyi, President of the club and Amb. Boye Adesina, Head, Media & …

ABEOKUTA  – The second edition of the reunion for Old Students of Catholic Comprehensive High School (CCHS), Ibara, Abeokuta comes up on Saturday 19th June, 2021. According to the National President, CCHS Old Students Association, CCHSOSA, Mr Yemi Adegbite (FCA), venue of the meeting is the school premises, along Panseke …

ABEOKUTA – In a bid to ensure accessible and qualitative education for children, in line with Nigeria curriculum, the Ogun State Government has said it will not allow any school to jettison the curriculum, as long as they operate within the country. Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Prof. Abayomi …

ILARO-YEWA – Governing Council of the Government Science and Technical College, Aiyetoro-Yewa, led by the Council chairman, Dr Idris Babatunde Allinson, paid a courtesy visit to Oba Kehinde Olugbenle, the Olu of Ilaro & Paramount Ruler of Yewaland at his palace on Thursday, June 3, 2021, to congratulate the monarch …

ABEOKUTA – The Chairman, Conference of Chairmen and Director of Public Libraries in Nigeria, Mr. Giwa Franklin who is also the Director, Ogun State Library Board has decried the growing poor reading culture among the youth in Nigeria as worrisome, imploring the government at all levels to wake up and …

By Seyifunmi Odunuga OGBOMOSO – The Executive Governor of Oyo State, Engr. ‘Seyi Makinde, on Tuesday, June 1, 2021 announced the 25 per cent reduction of the tuition fees of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH). Makinde made the promise while paying a thank you visit to the students …