OMATEK Ventures Plc and the Obafemi Awolowo University have entered into a partnership that will make all the staff of the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife proud owners of personal computers (PCs).
The students of one of the foremost institution of learning in Nigeria will also benefit from the partnership, stemming from the N500 million ICT finance [...]

I read with dismay a few days ago that our president, a highly educated man, attacked the teaching and student personnel of my worthy Alma Mata Great Ife (Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Nigeria). I cringed at the use of words in the speech given by the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Dr Goke [...]

The current fellowship offer is for candidates interested in starting NYU Wagner’s two-year Master of Public Administration program, or the one-year Master of Science program (for mid-career candidates only) with a start date of late August, 2009.

The Pan-African Education Awards: Three prizes for three great educational initiatives in Africa. Earlier this year, the Teach A Man to Fish organization an international non-profit organization working to improve education in developing countries, via its “The EDUCATING AFRICA Pan-African Awards for Entrepreneurship in Education”, sought to identify African organizations that are entrepreneurial, sustainable and [...]

Strategies to Develop and Retain the Next Generation of African Academics Summit 22-25 November in Accra, Ghana
With the fastest-growing rates of higher education enrollment in the world as well as ample research demonstrating tertiary education’s positive impact on economic growth, poverty reduction, national health and governance, Africa’s universities are fast becoming the continent’s primary development [...]

The Chicago Council on Global Affairs has awarded the 2008 Patricia Blunt Koldyke Fellowship on Social Entrepreneurship to Ada Onyejike, cofounder and chief executive officer of the Girl Child Art Foundation (GCAF) in Nigeria.
Onyejike’s GCAF uses the arts to empower and educate young women in Nigeria where sons are often more highly valued than daughters, [...]

A recent survey in Nigeria revealed problems in institutions of higher learning. These include too few classrooms, too few student hostels and insufficient staffing and funding. Now, a group of American foundations is helping upgrade their facilities, curricula, and faculties. According to Voice of Americareport, Bayero University in Kano is one of many in Nigeria [...]

For the first time in recent years, primary school students started a new school year on 6 October in Togo without paying enrolment fees. The government has waived primary school fees as part of a more than US$80 million investment in the education system. While parents celebrated the savings, administrators taken aback by the surprise [...]

A private university in Accra, Ghana, is incorporating ecologically sound methods for providing sanitation and clean water on its campus. Valley View University is also recycling human waste and used water from dormitories as fertilizer for the school’s farm. Voice of America English to Africa Service reporter Joana Mantey, in Accra, says the campus covers [...]

They speak in the clipped tones of the British upper class or the soft drawl of southern California. They boast degrees and work experience from elite overseas institutions. And now they’re coming home.
Nigerians who left their homeland to seek riches abroad are increasingly returning as Africa’s biggest oil producer rides an energy bonanza that is [...]