Covenant University joins global ranked universities.
The ranking platform also says Covenant University has had a rapid rise in reputation in the decade and a half it has been operating. The Nigerian Universities Commission named it the best private university in Nigeria in its 2018 rankings and the 6th best university overall.
Profiling the institution on its website, the Times Higher Education World University Rankings describes the school as one of the leading universities in Africa found on Christian Mission Ethos.
Earlier in February 2018, Webometrics, another university ranking website rated Covenant University as the second best university in Nigeria.
ASUU threatens FG
The National President of the union, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lagos.
According to him, no meaningful development will be achieved if government fails to put issues concerning education on the front burner for global reckoning and competitiveness.
Free education for girls in Kaduna public schools
Kaduna State governor, Nasir El-Rufai, has ordered the full implementation of free education for female students in the state’s public secondary schools to improve girl-child education.
According to the commissioner, 191,445 female students currently in Kaduna public schools will immediately benefit from the government’s new directive which will cost it N143 million every term and N430 million annually.
The commissioner said the government’s decision will remove any hindrance to girls acquiring quality education as they make up a majority of the over 10 million out-of-school children in the country.