President Bola Tinubu has renamed the National Theatre in Lagos after Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka. Tinubu announced this in a birthday message to the Nobel laureate who turns 90 on July 13. “Today, I join the world to celebrate his profound influence on generations of writers, scholars, and activists w...
Afrobeats star Rema is reportedly set to be paid $3m to perform at the wedding of Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest man Mukesh Ambani, and Radhika Merchant. A viral video on Thursday showed his arrival in India ahead of the wedding ceremony. As reported by Hindustan Times, Rema will get paid a fee of...
The Universal Basic Education Commission said 73 per cent of public Junior Secondary School pupils do not have furniture. This was part of a presentation by UBEC Executive Secretary, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, at the one-day meeting with the organised private sector on the implementation of the UBE programme in...
A student of the Federal University of Agriculture Abeokuta International School, Ogun State, Toluwanimi Aboyeji, has emerged as the overall winner of the 2024 TeensThink competition. The fourth edition of the competition titled, ‘food security,’ had 15 participants. Aboyeji’s profound essay not only d...
The Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board has announced the closure of its online portal for recruiting primary school teachers, with a total of 52,423 applications received during the application window. The job application portal for recruiting 7,000 primary school teachers was opened on June 25,...
The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has launched an Artificial Intelligence-themed University Innovation Pods (UniPODS) as part of a network of 13 UniPODs being set up across Africa by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). The initiative is to to create a link between research and product innova...
