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The Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS), Alhaji Abdullahi Dikko, has revealed that 14,000 officers of the service had been trained to take over Destination Inspection at the ports. Dikko disclosed this at a news conference in Lagos, after a three-day campaign on the Pre-Arriv [Read more]

The Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof. AbdulGaniyu Ambali, has disclosed that the University would soon begin a degree programme in Entrepreneurship Studies.  Prof. Ambali made this known during the launch of a book, “Management and Entrepreneurship in Societal Transfor [Read more]

President Goodluck Jonathan has approved the appointment of Dr Dikko Suleiman as Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC). This information was contained in a statement signed by Mr. Sam Nwaobasi, Special Assistant (Media) to the Secretary to the Government of the Federa [Read more]

The House of Representatives on Thursday in Abuja urged the National University Commission (NUC) to approve the establishment of a medical school at the Modibbo Adama University of Technology, Yola. The House also urged the Federal Government to upgrade the Federal Medical Centre, Yola to a teaching [Read more]

Transparency International and Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project have called on the government of President Goodluck Jonathan to account for the huge sums of money that has been invested in the education sector and be serious about teaching children the value of honesty. The organizat [Read more]

The Association of Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities (ACVCNU) has called for innovative and workable solutions to disruptions in the academic calendars of universities. In a communiqué issued at the end of the 28th Annual Conference of the association, the vice-chancellor [Read more]

Lagos State Government said it has put in place public enlightenment programmes to sensitize students against the twin-evil of drug abuse and teenage sex. Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Olayinka Oladunjoye, who stated this in Lagos while being inducted as the first Matron of the Drug Free Clubs in [Read more]

Technical, vocational and entrepreneurial education is key to Nigeria’s bid to grow her economy and become one of the best top 20 economies in the world in 2020. The Director-General, National  Office  for Technology Acquisition  and Promotion  NOTAP, Federal Ministry of Sc [Read more]

The National Power Training Institute of Nigeria (NAPTIN) in Abuja has graduated 243 engineers in the three key areas of the power sector. Mr Reuben Okeke, the Director General of NAPTIN said the graduates studied programmes in three critical areas of Generation, Transmission, and Distribution as th [Read more]

The Kano State Government has approved N14.7 million for the training of 300 youths on modern bee keeping. The state Commissioner for Information, Dr Umar Jubril, announced this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting in Kano on Wednesday. Jubril said the c [Read more]

The National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) on Thursday organised a training for stakeholders in disaster management in Anambra to reduce auto crashes. The South East Zonal Coordinator of the agency, Dr Bandele Onimode, said at the training that it was aimed at saving and salvaging accident v [Read more]

The Kano State Government has donated a 30-room hostel to the School of Basic and Remedial Studies (SBRS) of Ahmadau Bello University (ABU), Zaria. Gov. Rabi'u Kwankwaso, in a message at the handing over of the structure in Funtua, Katsina State, said the gesture was meant to alleviate shorta [Read more]

The Federal Government is set to launch three gender initiatives to promote the use of Information Communication Technology (ICT) among women and girls, Minister of Communication Technology, Omobola Johnson said. She made the disclosure on Tuesday at a news conference in Abuja. The minister, who [Read more]

Inadequate leadership training is one of the challenges affecting development in Nigeria, the Vice-Chancellor of Ekiti State University, Prof. Patrick Oladipo Aina has said. He made the observation during a workshop for Students Union leaders of the institution held at the Odua hall of the Universit [Read more]

More than 200 youths to be drawn from Lagos, Ogun and Abuja are to undergo training under the German dual vocational education partnership with Nigeria. The dual vocational training partnership is a poverty alleviating support through sustainable economic development of partner country - Nigeria [Read more]

The Nigerian Export Promotion Council says it has trained exporters in the country on the modalities of exhibition ahead of the 7th ECOWAS Trade Fair in Ghana. This was made known at a one-day trade show preparation workshop was organised by the council in collaboration with the United States Age [Read more]

Nigeria is to collaborate with Brazil to develop training centres in spare parts production and auto maintenance, the Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Mr. Olusegun Aganga, has said. Brazil is the production home to a number of luxury buses, including the Marcopolo brand being used on l [Read more]

The President of Dangote Group, Alhaji Aliko Dangote has called on Nigeria and other developing countries to lay emphasis on technical and vocational education as a tool for accelerated industrial development and growth. Speaking at the Global Education First Initiative Anniversary & Lear [Read more]

The National Commission for Colleges of Education NCCE has commended the Lagos State Government and management of Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, Noforija, Epe for monumental infrastructural development in the college. The Acting Director, Department of Academic Programmes, NCCE, Abuja [Read more]

The International Federation of Training and development organizations (IFTDO) in collaboration with Congress of Human Capital Development Institutions in Nigeria are organizing a 2-day African Regional Conference The programme is expected to hold from November 18, 2013 to November 19, 2013 at the S [Read more]