Instead of home-schooling her daughter, she spent hundreds of millions of dollars building an idiosyncratic educational institution in the Hamptons.

[Premium Times] More than 32 million students are enrolled on the DNEMIS portal, according to the National Project Coordinator of the Special Programmes Operations and Implementation Unit in the Office of the Minister of Education, Adebayo Onigbanjo.

[Premium Times] The attack occurred as students were preparing to sit the ongoing National Examinations Council (NECO) examinations

A legal challenge to a law that takes effect this week has doubled the amount certain graduate students can borrow from the federal government to $50,000 per year.

[Leadership] The Benin Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has threatened to shut down academic activities in seven state-owned universities in Edo, Delta and Ondo sStates if the 2025 FGN/ASUU Agreement is not implemented in the payment of July salaries.

[Leadership] Nigerian skit maker Oderohiwo Joseph Efe, better known as Carter Efe, has gotten himself into trouble after a private University, Babcock, threatened legal action against him.

[Vanguard] NSUKKA — The Federal Government has reaffirmed that education remains central to Nigeria’s national development, reiterating its commitment to strengthening teacher education through comprehensive reforms under the Renewed Hope Agenda.

[New Dawn] Monrovia — The Acting President of AIIST University College, K. Ishmeal V. Konneh, delivered a message of congratulations and partnership during the 4th Commencement Convocation of Margibi University, highlighting the growing collaboration between Liberia’s higher education institutions.

[Liberian Observer] The United Methodist University (UMU) has entered a new era of leadership with the appointment of Rev. Dr. David M. Togbah as its new President, following a six-month nationwide search launched after the death of former President Rev. Dr. Emmanuel F. Bailey.

Jennifer Mnookin will be the Ivy League university’s fifth president in four years. She describes herself as “a principled pragmatist.”

[New Times] The Ministry of Education is working with internet service providers to introduce zero-rated access to education platforms used in schools and host frequently used school services in local data centres as part of efforts to improve internet performance.

[Vanguard] Gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram and the Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) on Monday attacked Government Day Secondary School in Lassa, Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State, abducting an unspecified number of students writing the National Examinations Council (NECO).

[Premium Times] The school triumphed over Magbon-Alade Senior Grammar School in a fiercely contested grand finale of the competition. The victory marked the third consecutive win for the school

[Scrolla] Gauteng education officials have recorded 41 serious corruption and maladministration allegations in public schools between 2023 and June 2026. Johannesburg East, Ekurhuleni South, Johannesburg Central and Tshwane South account for more than half of the reported school corruption cases.

[SAnews.gov.za] As South Africa marks Science Month in July, University of Cape Town (UCT) Professor Liesl Zühlke has been named the 2026 L’Oréal-UNESCO For Women in Science International Award Laureate for Africa and the Arab States in the field of Life and Environmental Sciences.

[IPS] Nairobi — A team of universities, led by Addis Ababa University, has joined forces to implement a four-year Intra-Africa academic mobility project aimed at strengthening agroforestry research and education for climate change mitigation.