Universities With The Cheapest School Fees In Nigeria

1. Ahmadu Bello University (ABU)

Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Senate Building

Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) is a federal government research university located in Zaria, Kaduna State. ABU was founded on October 4, 1962, as the University of Northern Nigeria.

The university operates two campuses: Samaru (main) and Kongo in Zaria.

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THE SCANDAL OF PRIVATE EDUCATIONAL SECTOR

I was having one of those moments whilst enjoying my half-term break, spending quality time with my family and reminiscing about my childhood days. I recollected time at my primary school, Pabod Model Primary school Port-Harcourt. I consider myself lucky to have been a recipient of state education at the time because it was a state

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CAN WE HAVE FREE EDUCATION IN NIGERIA

"It is no good making education free if learning is going to take place under trees or where resource materials like books, ICT are difficult to come by." 

The above statement is a line taken out of a previous article I wrote in response to Imo State Gov, Owelle Rochas Okorocha's flagship policy on free education shortly after he was sworn in as Governor. Less than two months after, news making the rounds reveal that the

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TURNING TALENT INTO TEACHING

          

As a frequent visitor to one of my favorite website forum for teachers in the UK, I recently came across a topic by a prospective trainee teacher posing the question, As you would expect, the responses were

  

varied but nevertheless thought provoking and in fact did make me to reflect on my own journey into

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THE FALL OF THE EDUCATIONAL SECTOR IN NIGERIA

Earlier in June this year, I wrote an article where I made some analysis about JAMB and the failure of public exams. This was prompted as a result of the fallout from the poor result which painted a grim future of how low our educational system has fallen. The results at the time showed that only 56% of the over one million students who sat for the exam did not manage to achieve the minimum 200 mark that is required to gain admission

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THE COST OF EDUCATING NIGERIANS ABROAD

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A lot has been made about the number of Nigerian students studying in foreign universities and institutions. With our abysmal poor track record of keeping up to date and accurate data, finding such information would prove rather difficult. So I embarked on a mission to try and find out how many Nigerian students are studying abroad and try to work out roughly how much on average they spend to do so. Nigeria ranked third just

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