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Joy Bishara , 20, and Lydia Pogu , 19, two of the Chibok schoolgirls who were able to escape from Boko Haram in 2014, met with US President Donald Trump at the White House Wednesday, June 28. The duo and several other girls who escaped moved to the United States to complete school. With the help of a Christian nonprofit, others, they were able to attend boarding school in Virginia. Bishara and Pogu transferred their senior year and recently graduated from Canyonville Christian Academy. They will be attending Southeastern University in Florida in the fall.

The Federal Ministry of Education has debunked reports that Christian Religious Knowledge, CRK, has been removed as a subject of study from the curriculum of public secondary schools in Nigeria while Islamic Religious Studies, IRS, has been reintroduced. Debunking the report, Director of Press, Federal Ministry of Education, Mrs. Chinenye Ihuoma, pointed out that the ministry had designed a new subject which merged Civic Education, IRS, CRK and Social Studies into “Religion and National Values.” Mrs. Ihuoma told reporters that, “The alternation is not from the minister, this is purely from the National Council on Education. It is just as the council has said that History should be a subject of its own at the basic level in the first nine years. “Now, a new subject has been introduced, called Religion and National Values. It is a fusion of religion and civics. “I have not seen the details but in a case where you have subject combinations in the same period, everyone will attend lectures...

Days ago, a video of Kechi Okwuchi's sonorous performance at the America's Got Talent made it to YouTube and brought viewers to tears (read  here ). The talented and resilient contestant of Nigerian descent, who survived the Sosoliso plane crash and flourished in spite of it, has now taken to her Instagram account to announce her success at the singing competition. She wrote:  "I made it to the next round!! Thank you @agt for this amazing opportunity  God is ever faithful.  #agt #agtauditions"

List of illegal degree awarding universities operating in Nigeria, by National Universities Commission (NUC). it  is our duty to keep informing our readers on issue of universities in Nigeria as the National Universities Commission (NUC) of Nigeria has released a list of illegal degree awarding Universities in Nigeria LIST OF ILLEGAL DEGREE AWARDING INSTITUTIONS (“DEGREE MILLS”) OPERATING IN NIGERIA. > University of Accountancy and Management Studies, operating anywhere in Nigeria. > Christians of Charity  American  University of Science & Technology, Nkpor, Anambra State or any of its other campuses > University of Industry, Yaba, Lagos or any of its other campuses > University of Applied Sciences & Management, Port Novo, Republic of Benin or any of its other campuses in Nigeria > Blacksmith University, Awkaor any of its other campuses > Volta University College, Ho, Volta Region, Ghana or any of its other campuses in Nigeria > Royal Universi...

The first escaped Chibok schoolgirls to successfully attend and complete an American High School graduated Thursday night in the United States Capital. The two girls known simply by their first names Debbie and Grace graduated after completing junior year (11th grade) and senior year (12 grade) at a prestigious private international school in the Washington metro area in America. Debbie and Grace were part of the first 57 girls who escaped from Boko Haram terrorists after the mass abduction of almost 300 Chibok schoolgirls in April 2014. Unlike most of their colleagues who jumped out of trucks en route, the two were taken all the way to the terrorists camp in Sambisa before they escaped and made it back home in a terrifying journey that took about a week with their captors in hot pursuit. They were the last to escape Boko Haram until last year's escape of Amina Ali after two years in captivity. The two schoolgirls were among a dozen Nigerian girls sponsored to school abroad by a Ni...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has released the results of over 1.6 million out of the over 1.7 million candidates who sat for the recently concluded 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination UTME). The Registrar and Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this wednesday at a press briefing in Abuja. Oloyede also disclosed that the results of over 80,000 candidates were withheld for various reasons, especially suspected examination malpractices. He also said there were about 3, 811 candidates who registered late for the examination with findings revealing that more than half of then had earlier registered. Oloyede noted that the results were released within the 24 hours of each examination in compliance with their promise to deliver the results in a timely manner. He said: “So far, we have released 1,606,901 results leaving us with a balance of 80,889 and out of which we have deliberately withheld 76,123 because of examination malpractices....

29 year old Queen Okafor is one of the hairiest women in Nigeria, and has been enjoying her fame by posting hairy cleavage baring photos. The Anambra state born lady has gained admission into the National Open University of Nigeria to study Political science. She shared these photos from her matriculation. More below…

Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode is celebrating his daughter, Oluwaremilekun, after she graduated from Lincoln Community School - an international college preparatory school in Accra, Ghana. She is his only child from his marriage to Regina-Hanson Amonoo in 1997. Read his sweet message to her below. "Congratulations to my beautiful daughter Remi who just finished her graduation ceremony at the famous American 'Lincoln Community School' in Accra, Ghana. I watched the whole proceedings from beginning to end with tears of joy running down my cheeks. I am so proud of her."She is a beautiful and brilliant young lady and now she is on her way to University in the United States. Thank you Regina for being such a wonderful mother to this blessing of a young lady. She is my world and I thank and love you both with all my heart. I give God the glory for your lives and for all that He has done for us. He has been so faithful."

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released more results of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The exams held for 6 days and was concluded on Saturday, May 20. Recall that JAMB had released results of 1,048,914 out of the 1,648,429 candidates that wrote the examination. Speaking yesterday, JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede said the agency had released the additional results of 15, 000 candidates. Oloyede assured that the board would not impose any candidate on any institutions in the country. His words: “The final say for admission rest squarely with the institutions. Their senates and academic boards are empowered to determine the students. What JAMB does is and what it should continue to do is to moderate, to ensure equity, to ensure that nobody is unfairly treated. “JAMB should not and will not take any student that has not been recommended by the institution. JAMB was not established to take up the responsibility or to usurp the power of ...