[allAfrica]

[Nile Post] The Minister of Education and Sports, Janet Museveni, has commissioned Makerere University’s new School of Law building, reopened the renovated Lumumba Hall, and laid the foundation stone for the School of Graduate Studies and Research project.

The department had been trying to phase out the two plans in favor of a more generous new one that has been tied up by litigation since this summer.

The conference’s eight schools will be able to participate in the Football Championship Subdivision’s 24-team playoff.

[Leadership] A senior lecturer with the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Dr. Osita Chinedu has been killed by a gang of gunmen.

[Ghanaian Times] The University of Cape Coast (UCC) in the Central Region last Thursday held its 57th Congregation, with the conferring of undergraduate degrees on a total of 2,513 students after successfully completing their programmes of study in the university.

[Leadership] The Federal Government has renamed the University of Abuja to Yakubu Gowon University.

[Daily Trust] The development Research and Projects Centre (dRPC), has distributed learning and play materials worth over N3 million to 23 young female proprietors of community-based early childhood schools in Kano and Jigawa states as part of its continuing support for young female secondary school graduates to set up and run Early Childhood Care Development (ECCD) centres.

[Daily Trust] Former Governor of Bayelsa State, Senator Henry Seriake Dickson, has said that his motivation to continue investing in education stems from the fact that building roads, bridges and other infrastructures are mere brick and motar without the development of the human mind.

[This Day] With over 17 million children aged five to 14 years deprived of adequate schooling in Nigeria, constituting over 20 per cent of the world’s out-of-school children, innovative approaches to education, such as STEM METS (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Entrepreneurship, Technology, and Science), offer a promising pathway to transform learning outcomes and secure...

[Capital FM] Nairobi — The Ministry of Interior and National Administration (MINA) has revealed that 13 schools in Baringo, West Pokot, and Turkana counties remain closed due to persistent insecurity caused by banditry.

[Premium Times] Like other states in Nigeria’s South-east, security has deteriorated in Anambra State with frequent attacks by armed persons.

[Premium Times] The new UBEC chief has over 15 years of hands-on experience at the World Bank.

But mass shootings remain a rare occurrence. Only a small fraction of the nation’s nearly 130,000 schools report gun incidents each year.

The schools were accused of giving special treatment to wealthy students who might not otherwise have been admitted.

After a Supreme Court decision ended race-based admissions, some law schools saw a decline in Black and Hispanic students entering this fall. Harvard appeared to have the steepest drop.