The new Executive Chairman of Katsina State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Dr Kabir Magaji, has vowed to reform basic education in the state. Magaji made the vow on Monday in Katsina when he assumed office. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Magaji was recently appointed by...
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The Vice Chancellor, Salem University Lokoja, Prof. Alewo Johnson-Akubo, has urged the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to urgently checkmate candidates’ manipulation of results. The vice chancellor, who made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lokoja on Monday, said that suppressing...
The Anambra Government has set up a panel of inquiry into the controversy trailing the highest scorer in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, the Commissioner for Education, announced the setting up of the panel in a statement in Awka on Monday. “A panel...
The management of Innoson Automobile Company, says the N3 million scholarship awarded to Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme will stand if found to be innocent of the allegation by JAMB of result manipulation. Mr Cornel Osigwe, Head of Corporate Communications at Innoson Group, stated this while speaking with the News Agency...
The Management of Rufus Giwa Polytechnic in Owo, (RUGIPO) in Ondo State has appealed to members of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic(ASUP) to call off its strike. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN reports that ASUP on June 9, withdrew their services over the non-payment of 13 months’ salary...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result of Ejikeme Mmesoma for alleged manipulation of her scores. Earlier, Mmesoma, who claimed to have scored 362 in the 2023 UTME, was recently awarded a N3 million scholarship...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has faulted the decision of the Federal Government on the dissolution of the Governing Councils of all federal universities in the country. The union said that the move was inimical and a major setback toward the growth and development of university education...
Gov. Abba Yusuf of Kano State says the first batch of foreign scholarship policy will commence academic activities in various universities by September. This is contained in a statement issued by his Acting Press Secretary, Mr Hisham Habib, in Kano on Saturday. Yusuf announced this at the Government House...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Deputy Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Mr Chris Maiyaki, has taken over the affairs of the commission pending the appointment of a substantive one. The outgoing Professor Abubakar Rasheed handed over to Maiyaki Friday at a small event with Former ES...
By BARBARA KALU, Awka – The Anambra State Government has offered scholarship to Miss Nkechinyere Umeh, an indigene of the state who has the highest score in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The state Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, who made this known in a statement...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC) Professor Abubakar Rasheed has voluntarily resigned from the NUC to continue lecturing at the Bayero University Kano where he was appointed from Professor Rasheed who stated this to newsmen on Monday in Abuja said he...
The top scorer in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations with a cumulative mark of 360, is a student of Deeper Life High School (DLHS), Lagos Campus. The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examinations (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede had revealed during the 2023 policy meeting in Abuja that Umeh...
If there is any reason as to why Elder Sheriff Oborevwori led Delta state Government must pay disciplined attention attention to funding education in the state, it is the recent news report that the senator representing Delta Central Senatorial District of Delta State, Chief Ede Dafinone, recently, paid an...
Ms Emmanuelleem Blatmann, French Ambassador to Nigeria, said France has invested 600,000 Euros for the promotion of French language in Nigeria. Blatmann revealed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sideline of the solidarity fund for innovative projects (FSPI) launch in Abuja. According...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the National Minimum Tolerable scores for admission into universities, polytechnics, colleges of education as 140, 100 and 100 respectively. The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede stated this at the 2023 Policy Meeting of Tertiary Institutions...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is contemplating a new policy where candidates wishing to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) would be required to use their personal phone devices to take the examination. The Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of JAMB,...
Gov. Francis Nwifuru of Ebonyi on Friday said his administration would declare state of emergency in the health and education sectors. Dr Monday Uzor, Chief Press Secretary (CPS) to Nwifuru, made this known in a statement on Friday. According to him, the governor made the remark during a courtesy...
By GRACE AUDU – Popular Abuja-based socialite and President of Ior Gboko Foundation, Terhemen Jimmy Ajim, has been awarded a Doctorate Degree (PhD) in Leadership and Management by the London Bridge Business School (LBBS), United Kingdom. The Doctorate Degree investiture ceremony, held on Friday in Singapore, coincided with the...
BY RICHARD ABU, Makurdi – The newly established Federal College of Education (FCE) located at Odugbo in App local government area of Benue State recently held her maiden matriculation with the Provost of the College, Professor Joel Eriba expressing commitment to uplift academic and infrastructural facilities of the young...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, and the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, are exploring ways to strengthen collaborations to boost service delivery to Nigerians. The Registrar of TRCN, Prof Josiah Ajiboye, who disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday, said the...