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By Mike Abbah The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) is encouraging all corps members across Africa to seize the opportunity offered by the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Grant. Interested participants are urged to register at https://www.tefconnect.net, a platform dedicated to empowering entrepreneurs

In order to a build a brighter educational future for children of Kaduna State, the State government has partnered with United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF) in a programme to take over 200,000 out-of-school children back to school in the State, with over

No fewer than 14,000 schools have been closed across West and Central Africa due to violence and insecurity, the UN Aid Coordination Office, OCHA has reported. OCHA said that by June, 2.8 million children – including many who are displaced – had

Dr Mariya Mahmoud, the Minister of State for FCT, has advocated the institutionalisation of debate in public schools across the FCT, to foster healthy conversations on topical issues among students. Mahmoud made the call in Abuja on Friday, at the grand finale

British High Commissioner, The Deputy and the scholars at the pre- departure reception The British Government has awarded 82 Nigerians the prestigious Chevening and Commonwealth scholarships to study a wide range of postgraduate programmes in the UK in 2024. This is

There is a huge educational crisis in northern Nigeria. The country can no longer paper over this fact. Tens of millions of children are out of school for no fault of theirs. For many years, the Northern establishment chose not to prioritise

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has raised the alarm that some people the Fund has described as ‘impostors’ “are blackmailing the Fund, seeking a bailout from the Fund for foreign education pursuit under the platform of TETFund Scholarship for Academic Staff