The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is working with the Nigerian Educational Research & Development Council (NERDC) to develop a capital market education curriculum for senior secondary schools in the country. The acting Director-General of SEC, Mary Uduk, said this was part of initiatives by the commission to promote early …
Read More »Parents, Students urge ASUU to end strike
As the indefinite strike embarked upon by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) entered its second week on Monday, parents and students have appealed to the union to call it off. Some of the parents and students who spoke in separate interviews with the News Agency …
Read More »Man allegedly drugs, rape teenager in Lagos
An Ogudu Magistrates’ Court in Lagos on Monday remanded a 28-year-old man, Sunday Young, for allegedly conspiring with three others to rape a teenager. Young, who resides on Dele Akingboye Street, Ifako, Gbagada, Lagos, was arraigned on a five-count charge of conspiracy, rape, sexual harassment, sexual assault and abduction. …
Read More »UNIBADAN school shut over Hijab as parents kick
Academic activities at the University of Ibadan International School were Monday morning paralyzed as the management of the school locked the classrooms against the students over the use of Hijab by some female Muslim students. Recalls that some parents under the umbrella of International School Ibadan Muslim Parents’ Forum had, …
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