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  • Global relocation academy set to host virtual ‘Campaign 5000’ education summit

    Global relocation academy set to host virtual ‘Campaign 5000’ education summit

    Global Relocation Academy (GRA), an Ibadan-based organisation known for helping Nigerians secure fully funded and low-tuition study opportunities abroad, has announced plans to host a six-day virtual education and travel conference tagged Campaign 5000. 

    The event, scheduled for December 1 to 6, 2025, aims to train and empower at least 5,000 students, graduates, and professionals across Nigeria and Africa on how to access affordable international education.

    Acting Chief Operating Officer and Programme Director of GRA, Oluwagbenga Orolu, said the initiative will be the organization’s most ambitious yet. “Campaign 5000 is designed to be the biggest virtual education movement we’ve ever organized,” he said. 

    “Our goal is to ensure every participant leaves with clarity, confidence, and a concrete plan to gain admission into a foreign university without wasting time or money.”

    He explained that the conference will feature six interactive sessions covering practical topics such as identifying fully funded scholarships in the United States, applying to affordable European universities, preparing strong academic documents, and understanding visa application processes.

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    “Many Nigerians miss out on scholarships not because they are unqualified, but because they lack the right guidance,” Orolu noted. “We will walk participants through every step — from contacting professors to writing compelling Statements of Purpose and securing the necessary documents.”

    The summit will host several guest speakers, including a U.S.-based scholar who will share personal experiences on obtaining research and teaching assistantships, and a Europe-based graduate who successfully gained admission into low-tuition universities in France, Poland, and Hungary.

     Orolu will also deliver the opening and closing sessions, focusing on how global education can serve as a launchpad for Nigerians seeking international careers and long-term impact.

    He further emphasised the importance of the event in addressing widespread misinformation about scholarship applications.

     “Every year, thousands of Nigerians lose opportunities for funded admissions because they apply wrongly or depend on unreliable agents. Campaign 5000 will change that narrative by offering verified, practical knowledge that improves success rates for the 2026 academic intakes,” he said.

    “Participation in Campaign 5000 will be free, but registration is required. Interested attendees are encouraged to follow Global RelocationAcademy on social platforms for updates and access links to the live sessions. 

    This December, Campaign 5000 will not just be another conference,” Orolu concluded. “It will be a turning point for thousands of Nigerians who deserve a fair chance to study abroad and build global relevance.”

  • Buhari directs minister to convene education summit

    PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has directed Minister of Education Adamu Adamu to convene a summit to address the issue of funding plaguing education.

    Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education Sonny Echono disclosed this while opening the Officials’ Session of the 63rd National Council on Education (NCE) in Abuja.

    The President, according to a statement issued yesterday by the ministry’s Director, Press and Public Relations, Willie Bassey, in Abuja, described education as a tool for national growth.

    He stated that funding of education was important for sustainable growth.

    Echono said the President urged the ministry to convene a national summit to explore different funding models for education.

    The statement said the three tiers of government: federal, state and local governments will be mobilised to efficiently support the funding of education.

    The President noted that no government could single-handedly fund education and therefore called on stakeholders to join hands with the Federal Government to reduce the population of out-of-school children.

    Echono added that the directive by the President would form the fulcrum of discussion at the National Council on Education holding in Abuja this week.

    Director, Educational Planning, Research and Development Mrs. Chioma Nwadei observed that education was the key for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

    The 63rd National Council on Education (NCE) is holding in Abuja from yesterday to Thursday.

  • Ogun holds maiden Education Summit

    Major stakeholders in the education sector will on Monday 22nd to Tuesday 23rd of May, 2017 converge in Abeokuta for the state’s maiden edition of the Education Summit.

    The two-day event titled: Affordable Qualitative Education; “Pursuit of Excellence” holds at June 12, Cultural Centre, Kuto, Abeokuta. It will draw participants from the academia, students, school principals, proprietors, market men and women as well as Parent Teachers’ Association of Nigeria (PTA) among others.

    The state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mrs. Modupe Mujota, in a statement signed by her Media Aide, Mr. Kayode Oduyebo indicated that the first day will focus on informing the guests aboutthe journey so far on educational development in the state and Professor Is-haq Oloyede, the Registrar of Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will provide the baseline and assessment of the summit.

    Goodwill messages will be received from representatives of Nigerian Students, Director Generals, Teachers Registrar Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Director General, Nigeria Education Research and Development Council (NERDC), Chairman, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), representatives of envoys and international agencies.

  • Delta plans education summit

    Delta plans education summit

    The Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa, has inaugurated a six-member committee to organise an education summit.

    “A good education system has the capacity to produce transformed individuals in the sense that they are equipped with the knowledge and skills to develop the society they live in and make a success of their careers and lives,” Okowa said while inaugurating the committee in Asaba last week.

    He said the proposed summit has become necessary to checkmate falling standards and noticeable deficiencies in the education system in the state and the country in general.

    Okowa said the summit, which would hold in the first quarter of 2016, would have as its theme: ‘Leap Frogging Education in Delta State’.

    Okowa appealed to the committee, which has Prof Patrick Muoboghare and Mr Vincent Magboma as chairman and secretary respectively, to consider ‘learning goals, value orientation, social transformation, community participation, learning climate, service learning and centre of excellence,” while choosing resource persons for the summit.

    Buttressing the need for the summit, Governor Okowa said it was part of his campaign promises to refocus school curriculums in the state.

    Said Okowa: “There is a sense of realisation that our present education system is grossly deficient and out of touch with the realities of the 21st Century society; in fact, those who say we should declare a state of emergency in our education sector are speaking the minds of many Nigerians.

    “In today’s knowledge economy, education, not oil or natural resources, has become the competitive edge of serious countries all over the world; the meteoric rise of countries like Singapore, Malaysia, China and South Korea that have leap-frogged other third world nations and joined the elite league of developed nations is due largely to the development of their human capital.

    Responding on behalf of members of the committee, Muoboghare thanked Governor Okowa for deeming them fit to serve in the committee. He promised that the members are capable and would live up to expectation.

    Other members of the committee include: Chiedu Ebie, Sir Jude Sinebe, Mrs Pat Ejeteh, Prof Mary Edema and Mr Jackson Ekwugum.

     

  • Jonathan, ex-UK Prime Minister Brown for education summit today

    Jonathan, ex-UK Prime Minister Brown for education summit today

    President Goodluck Jonathan and a former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown are expected at the education summit in Abuja today.

    The event will bring ministers, governors and education commissioners together with global development partners to get Nigeria’s 10 million out-of-school children into education.

    The international community, it was learnt, will make an unprecedented commitment, with upwards of $250 million of global finance donation towards education in Nigeria.

    The event is said to have been inspired by an online video exchange between Nigeria’s National Youth Advocate for Universal Education and the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), Ojonwa Deborah Miachi and Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani girl who was shot by the Taliban and has become a United Nations (UN) personality.

    Malala had to leave her country to be safe.

    Both are demanding what 57 million girls and boys like them cannot have – the right to go to school even in times of conflict.

    The summit will discuss how to allocate new financial support for school building, teacher recruitment, training and for new technology with tablets, phones and online school courses, all part of a global initiative to get every boy and girl to school by the end of 2015.

    The international partners, in a statement, said: “Our aim is to build a world where for the first time no boy or girl is denied the right to education. In this, the challenges faced by Nigeria are real and many – with 10.5 million primary school-age children not in education; Nigeria is home to the world’s largest out-of-school population.