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4,510 Akwa Ibom students get scholarships, bursaries
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4,510 Akwa Ibom students get scholarships, bursaries

The Incorporated Trustees of NNPC/MPN JV EMOIMEE Host Community Development Trust (HCDT) have awarded scholarships and bursaries to 4,510 students in secondary and tertiary institutions across its seven constituent local government areas. The beneficiaries, drawn from Eastern Obolo, Mkpat Enin, Onna, Ikot Abasi, Mbo, Eket and Esit Eket Local Government Areas of Akwa Ibom State,

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My son didn’t deserve to die; he complained of bullying in school — Father of Ghanaian teenager shot in New York
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My son didn’t deserve to die; he complained of bullying in school — Father of Ghanaian teenager shot in New York

The father of a 15-year-old Ghanaian boy who was shot dead in the Bronx, New York, has expressed grief over his son’s death, insisting that the teenager was innocent and had previously reported incidents of bullying at school. Thomas Frimpong, 60, said his son, Javits Frimpong, had been living with him in the United States for exactly a year before the tragic incident.

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‘We cannot feed our families’ — 170 college staff withdraw services
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‘We cannot feed our families’ — 170 college staff withdraw services

About 170 staff of the Savannah College of Education at Daboya in the Savannah Region have withdrawn their services over delays in migrating them onto the government payroll, more than a year after the institution was absorbed into the public Colleges of Education system. In a joint press conference in Daboya in the Savannah Region, members of two local associations at the Savannah College of Education, namely, the Colleges of Education Teachers Association of Ghana [CETAG] and the Colleges of Education Non-Teaching Staff Association of Ghana (CENTSAG) said the transition of the college into…

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UASU calls off university lecturers’ strike after signing Sh20bn deal with government
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UASU calls off university lecturers’ strike after signing Sh20bn deal with government

NAIROBI,Kenya Oct 31 – The Universities Academic Staff Union (UASU) has called off its nationwide strike after reaching a Sh20 billion agreement with the government to implement the 2025–2029 Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs). The strike, which began on October 2, paralysed teaching, learning and research in public universities for nearly a month, with lecturers expected to resume their duties on Monday, November 2. UASU Secretary-General Constantine Wasonga announced the end of the industrial action on Friday following negotiations with the Inter-Public Universities Councils…

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Can Tinubu’s education reforms rescue a generation? – Inside Alausa’s ambitious agenda
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Can Tinubu’s education reforms rescue a generation? – Inside Alausa’s ambitious agenda

By Joseph Erunke, Abuja With nearly 46 million children reportedly captured in a new education data system, almost 250,000 Nigerians undergoing technical skills training and the government claiming to have returned one million out-of-school children to classrooms, the Tinubu administration is making an ambitious case for an education turnaround. For decades, Nigeria’s education crisis has been defined by millions of children outside classrooms, overcrowded schools, inadequate facilities, poorly equipped laboratories, frustrated teachers and graduates struggling to find employment despite…

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