The United Nations Children’s Fund in collaboration with Qatar Foundation, says 501,749 children will benefit from its “Educate A Child’’ Cash Transfer Intervention Project. The News Agency of Nigeria reports that the beneficiaries are drawn from four states: Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara. The UNICEF’s Chief of Field Office in Sokoto, Muhameden Fall, made the disclosure at the launch of cash transfer disbursement in Maiyama Local Government Area of Kebbi on Thursday.

The management of the National Youths Service Corps (NYSC) has announced that orientation course for the 2018 Batch 'A' service year would commence on April 19, 2018 across the country. The scheme made this known in a post on its Facebook and Twitter handle. The post read
“Congratulations for a successful mobilisation into the NYSC. You are adviced to read the instructions on your call-up letters and adhere to it.

The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) says it will include farming and crop production as part of the one year primary assignment for corps members from the next service year.

Mr Bello Ballama, the NYSC FCT Coordinator, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Thursday.

He said that the move was to help address corps rejection by some corps employers through the engagement of more corps members in all aspects of farming and crop production.

The Federal Government on Monday said it has commenced comprehensive screening of over 40,000 degrees claimed to have been obtained by Nigerian students who studied in foreign institutions. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu who made this known in Abuja while inaugurating the 16-man screening committee said the measure was aimed at detecting possible cases of fake foreign degrees obtained, particularly from sub-standard institutions in Africa and beyond.

The Petroleum Technology Development Fund ( PTDF) has started the selection process for the award of 2018/ 2019 overseas scholars for Masters Degree (Msc) and Doctors of Philosophy programme (PhD).

Mrs Rabi’ah Waziri-Adamu, Manager, Education and Training of the PTDF disclosed this in Abuja on Monday at the interview for shortlisted candidates for the award.

She said that it had modified the style of selection by suspending the conduct of aptitude tests for applicants in the programme.

The Federal Government says only 173 pupils registered for the 2018 national common entrance examination in Zamfara, Taraba and Kebbi states.

Adamu Adamu, minister of education, said the low registration shows that Nigeria’s child education was in need of total reform.

He said a report from a meeting of major stakeholders in the education sector showed that candidates registered in 2018 stood at 71,294 as against 80,421 in 2017.