All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
The Federal Ministry of Education is to be restructured into two sections with focus on Tertiary and Secondary/ Basic Education, the Minister of Education, Dr Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu has said.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Nigeria: Eight Million Children Not in School, Says Aja - NwachuckwuChris OchayiThe Federal Government said yesterday that a total number of eight million children who have reached the primary school age are not in school, while about 60 percent are not attending secondary school, particularly amongst girl children in the northern states of the country.This was contained in the report of Review of...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Nigeria: FG to Mark Teachers' Day With AwardsNanThe Federal Government said today that it planned to hold this year's President's Teachers' and Schools' Excellence Award alongside the World Teachers' Day celebrations in Abuja."Arrangements have been made for the President's Teachers' and Schools' Excellence Award as part of this year's World Teachers' Day celebrations," Dr Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu,...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
... the NUC, yesterday, noted that the circular was at the instance of the Minister of Education, Dr Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu, requesting vice- chancellors to take urgent measures to review and strengthen existing laws against all forms of violence on the campuses, particularly cultism.It also urged them to create conducive environment that would engender active participatory students unionism, to...
All Africa (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
... the Universal Basic Education Commission gulped N90 billion from 2005 to 2007.Education Minister Igwe Aja-Nwachukwu Spoke of the "necessary reforms" in the education sector which, he said, would assist in the achievement of the MDGs. On the same occasion, however, UK minister Lord Mark Malloch-Brown recognised the major challenges in the delivery of basic education in the country which limit...
