[This Day] The General Officer Commanding (GOC), 81 Division Nigerian Army, Major General Adebayo Abdulrahman Babalola, has urged commanders at all levels to ensure they leave every place better than they met it through purposeful leadership and impactful initiatives.

[This Day] As Nigeria’s financial services landscape continues to undergo a massive transformational shift driven by digital innovation, increasing financial inclusion, and rising customer expectations, Moniepoint has announced a milestone talent development initiative.

[Liberian Observer] The Senator of Grand Kru County Senator Numene T.H. Bartekwa Sr., Chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the University of Liberia, has challenged Liberian students pursuing higher education in India to distinguish themselves through academic excellence, discipline, and integrity, urging them to return home equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to drive Liberia’s...

[Liberian Observer] Liberia has always produced educated people. From the founding of the republic to the present, the country has turned out lawyers, teachers, doctors, journalists, historians, economists, theologians, engineers, writers, and political thinkers.

Kim Sajet left as director of the National Portrait Gallery when she found herself in the White House cross hairs. Now she’s watching another Smithsonian chief go through it.

[IPS] Oloitoktok, Kenya — Before sunrise each morning, 19-year-old Josephine Sembeyo joins dozens of teenage runners leaving Magnolia Athletics Camp for training beneath the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro.

[Nile Post] Government has commissioned science kits for public schools in Buyende District in a move aimed at improving the teaching and learning of science subjects through practical laboratory instruction.

[New Times] Education officials have called for more scholarship opportunities to help financially disadvantaged students access university, welcoming the launch of a new scholarship fund worth more than $2.5 million.

An upgrade transformed the beleaguered virtual assistant into a modern chatbot. It’s imperfect but worth trying.

Some people revere the “liberal arts” while others call them useless. They’re probably talking about different things.

[Premium Times] Achieving Full Accreditation in all seven programmes assessed demonstrates that the University meets the National Universities Commission’s standards for academic quality, staffing, infrastructure, library resources, and governance.

[Premium Times] The industrial action has left academic activities at a standstill, with students uncertain over when examinations will be rescheduled.

[New Times] The government has set one of Africa’s most ambitious higher education targets: increasing tertiary enrolment from the current 9 percent to 27 percent by 2030, effectively tripling the share of young people accessing university education.

[Nile Post] Four teachers, including the head teacher of Arengesiep Secondary School in Nabilatuk District, have been arrested over allegations of reporting to work while intoxicated during school hours.

A Times’s analysis of 16 years of available federal data shows federal agencies lag in processing requests for government records.

[Ghanaian Times] A Deputy Director-General of the Ghana Education Service (GES), Professor Smile Gavua Dzisi, has called on school heads in the country to strictly enforce all the necessary disciplinary measures to stem the increasing spate of indiscipline among students.

[Nyasa Times] Maranatha Academy’s education scholarship initiative remains central to the institution’s mission of supporting academically gifted but financially disadvantaged students across Malawi, according to the school’s managing director, Dr Ernest Kaonga.

South Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.