Stories by ONYINYECHI
UDEMEZUE, Abuja

MOVED by the variation in fees and levies charged by Federal government tertiary institutions, the government said it has unveiled plan to regulate such fees and charges.
This, the Federal government said, was part of effort to reduce unrest that greets indiscriminate increase in fees paid by students across the country.
Speaking Tuesday in Abuja at the beginning of a meeting held with executive secretaries of regulatory agencies in the Federal Ministry of Education, the Minister of Education, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau said that government desirous of ensuring that all Universities, Polytechnics and Colleges of education owned by federal government operate within the same guideline especially on the fees and charges payable by students.

KAYODE AJIBOYE

Reporters, editors, and news producers primarily covering the insurgency in Northeast Nigeria, recently returned to the classroom to retool their intellectual battery and catch up on trending perspectives to delivering on a routine beat.
Some 57 of these journalists comprising field reporters and gatekeepers from print, broadcast, and online media from Borno, Yobe, Taraba, Bauchi, and Adamawa states, attended a Peace Journalism workshop organized by the American University of Nigeria at its ultra-modern Dr. Robert Pastor E-library & Resource Center.

The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakr III, on Tuesday, called on government at all levels to increase their investment in education.
The Sultan, who is also the head of the Nigeria Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs (NSCIA), made the call at the 72nd National Islamic Vocational Course in Birnin Kebbi.
The course was organised by the Muslim Students’ Society of Nigeria (MSSN) in Birnin Kebbi.

CHIDIMMA UCHEGBU, Abuja

Graduates of Medicine who are yet to complete their housemanship and have not fully registered with the Nigerian Medical and Dental Council of Nigeria (MDCN) with evidence of Certificate would not be mobilized for service anymore the Management of nysc has said.
Receipt of payment for registration would no longer be accepted in lieu of Certificate of Registration.
According to the Management,” This was part of the Fourteen-point resolution reached on Thursday, 18th December, 2014 during a Pre-Mobilisation Workshop that held in Abuja with the theme ‘Deepening The Credibility of NYSC Mobilization Process through ICT’.

The Kano State House of Assembly on Tuesday passed a bill for the establishment of Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso College of Advance and Remedial Studies.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the bill, which was presented to the assembly by the executive arm, was passed unanimously by the members.
The Majority Leader of the assembly and member representing Rano Constituency, Alhaji Kabiru Alhassan, said the passage of the bill was necessary.

KAYODE AJIBOYE

IN what looked like a re-write of history, the Vice-Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), Professor John Oladapo Obafunwa, came down from his exalted office to dine and dance with his students at an end of year party which the university bankrolled for them recently.
The eat-and-dance party, which according to the Director of Information, Mrs. Ronke Osho, is the first of its kind in the history of the institution, took place at its expansive sport centre on the last day of the year 2014 to make the students unwind after their respective papers in the semester examination.

KAYODE AJIBOYE

PROFESSOR Abdul Rasheed Na’ Allah, Vice-Chancellor, Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, has inaugurated a committee to see to the establishment of the Centre for Nollywood Studies at the university.
Na’ Allah stated this in his opening address on Monday at the Conference on African Cinema, organised by the university, with the theme: “African Cinema and the Supernatural”.
He said when operational, the centre would be charged with the responsibility of highlighting the role and effects of Nollywood films in the society.

ACTIVITIES of insurgents in the North-East have affected over 800 school buildings, leaving some 195,000 students without classrooms to learn; report has revealed.
This is based on an independent evaluation and assessment performance project report on the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), presented by the Coalition of Civil Society Groups (CCSG) recently.
The report indicated that Nigeria’s education sector may not achieve its goal by 2015.

Sokoto State Government on Monday donated six 36-sitter buses to three tertiary educational Institutions in the state.
The institutions include the state university, state polytechnic and the Shehu Shagari College of Education, Sokoto.
Presenting the vehicles in Sokoto, Wamakko said each of the Institutions was given two buses.

The Federal Ministry of Education on Monday in Abuja held its maiden Carol of Nine Songs in celebration of Christmas.
The Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols is a service of Christian worship celebrating the birth of Jesus that is traditionally followed at Christmas.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the carol was heralded by a procession, followed by special renditions by the ministry’s choir and others.