NABTEB tasks officials on fraud-free 2018
Chairman, Governing Board of the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), Prof. Leonard Karshima Shilgba, has urged its officials to conduct fraud-free National Business Certificate (NBC) and National Teachers Certificate (NTC) examinations.
He made the appeal yesterday ahead of the examinations, which begin today across the country.
Shilgba charged all monitors of the examinations nationwide to expose any centre, public and private schools, where they discover any malpractice.
Full Article : https://guardian.ng/features/nabteb-tasks-officials-on-fraud-free-2018-may-june-ntc-nbc-exam/
Prisoners ‘break free’ to grab doctorate degrees
Two inmates at the Kirikiri Maximum Prison, Lagos, have registered for doctorate degrees having successfully completed their Master programmes.
Despite the fact that prisons in Nigeria have been generally described as breeding ground for crime, since incarcerating offenders is said to make prisoners more hardened because they learn latest tricks.
However, many inmates, particularly those on the condemned list, are now more determined to turn a new leaf as they have thrown themselves into learning new vocational skills that would make them better persons, even while still serving their jail terms.
This manifested recently when two criminals, one serving a life jail term while the other awaiting his death sentence, cashed in on the opportunity created by the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) to enhance themselves educationally.
Tunwashe Kabiru and Oladipupo Moshood, in spite of their incarceration have now enrolled for Doctorate Degrees in Business Administration and Peace and Conflict Resolution, respectively. It was indeed, a development worthy of emulation.
Kabiru, 42, said that he was currently serving a life sentence at the Kirikiri Maximum Prisons, Lagos, after being found guilty of murder.
Full article : https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/prisoners-break-free-to-grab-doctorate-degrees.html
FG begins audit of schools nationwide
The Federal Government, through the Universal Basic Education Commission, has said that it will commence the audit of pupils and teaching personnel in public and private-owned schools nationwide so as to collect data for the purpose of policy planning and implementation.
The UBEC Executive Secretary, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, who stated this at a briefing in Abuja on Thursday, also said the audit of the teaching personnel in schools would begin by April 29 in the southern states and June 3 in the northern states.
Bobboyi noted that the exercise was aimed at collating reliable data for the national databank in line with the Nigeria’s Education Management Information System policy.
Full Article : http://www.punchng.com/fg-begins-audit-of-schools-nationwide/