By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says the report of the Commission of Inquiry set up by the Anambra State Government, an independent and unbiased body, as demanded by some Nigerians to look into the Mmesoma saga, has vindicated the Board. The Acting...
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The report of the Commission of Inquiry set up by the Anambra State Government, an independent and unbiased body, as demanded by some Nigerians to look into the Mmesoma saga, has vindicated the Board. This has further reinforced the position of the Board that its system was not and...
The Plateau University, Bokkos, has confirmed that it receives N1.2 billion intervention from the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund). Prof. Benard Matur, the Vice- Chancellor of the University, announced this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Bokkos. The vice-chancellor said “the grant...
Mr Joseph Ari, Director-General, Industrial Training Fund(ITF), says President Bola Tinubu has shown willingness to revamp the tertiary education system in Nigeria. Ari said the signing into law of the Access to Higher Education Act, 2023, known as the Student Loan Act by the president was a clear indication...
Governor Agbu Kefas of Taraba on Friday declared free education in all state government primary and secondary schools with effect from the next academic session. This, he said was to cushion the effects of the removal of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (PMS). Kefas Made the declaration while on...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Universities Commission, NUC, has called on African universities to recognize the value of forging partnerships with institutions worldwide to address constraints and provide students with skills needed for employment. Acting Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission, NUC, Mr. Chris Maiyaki, gave...
The National Examination Council (NECO) has unveiled ”NECO ‘e-Verify” platform to ease the verification of results, and checkmate manipulation and falsification of results conducted by the council. The Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, in his address of welcome at the ceremony on Thursday in Abuja, said all...
Gov. Bassey Otu of Cross River, says he is committed to making the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS), Calabar, one of the leading tertiary institutions in the country. Otu made the commitment when he received Prof. Austin Angba, Vice-Chancellor of the university and his management team on a...
By PATRICK ABANG, Calabar – The management of the University of Calabar (UNICAL) has shut down the main library of the institution indefinitely. According to the library’s Public Relations Unit of the University, this follows the report of an explosive sound that rocked the Special Education Wing of the...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, has urged Mmesoma Ejikeme, a 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate, to genuinely explained the source of her controversial UTME result. Mmesoma, who has been a subject of concern lately, had claimed that she scored 362...
Paul Sargent, Director of International Student Admissions and Programmes at the University of West Georgia, US. says Nigerians make up the institution’s largest international students population. Sargent said this on Wednesday, during a virtual university showcase, organised by the EducationUSA section of the U.S. mission in Nigeria to explore...
Taraba State Governor, Agbu Kefas has ordered the immediate slash of student fees of the state varsity by fifty per cent. Governor Kefas gave the order when he paid an unscheduled visit to the state university to assess the state of the institution. He said the aim is to...
Emeritus Prof. Peter Okebukola, one time executive secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC) says there is need for Nigerians to promote the thoroughness of JAMB, rather that discredit it. According to him, discrediting the effort of the examination body can be detrimental to the growth of the entire education system....
Science Park High School at Newark in New Jersey, U,S. has honoured a Nigerian graduate, Achunike Okafor for his extraordinary performance. According to TapIntoNewark, an online newspaper, Okafor received an International Baccalaureate diploma with a record-shattering 4.625.grade-point average from the school. His GPA is the highest among Newark’s 2,649...
The National Association of Parent- Teacher Association of Nigeria (NAPTAN) has condemned the decision by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), to bar Miss Ejikeme Mmesoma from sitting the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination(UTME)for the next three years. Chief Adeolu Ogunbanjo, National Deputy Chairman of NAPTAN, condemned the...
It is pedestrian information that while Nigerians were waiting for the commencement of governance, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on the day of inauguration, precisely on Monday May 29, 2023, announced the removal of fuel subsidy without putting palliatives in place to assist ameliorate the harsh impact of such policy...
The National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, has called for the composition of a ‘Common Committee’, to resolve the controversy over the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) result of Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme. Osodeke spoke in a telephone interview with the News Agency of...
The Federal High Court, Abuja on Tuesday, joined the Federal Ministry of Education in a suit filed by a Seventh-day Adventist member seeking to stop the conduct of examinations and elections on Saturdays. The court also joined the Council of Legal Education to the suit following an application by...
The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, David Adejo has blamed some state governors for the low enrolment in the ongoing National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB) certificate examination. Adejo said this while monitoring the examination at the Government Science Technical College, Garki, in Abuja on Tuesday. ”I...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has restated its earlier position that the 2023 Universal Tertiary Matriculation (UTME) UTME result being paraded by Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma is patently fake. The Board, in a statement by its Ag Director, Public Affairs &...