Nigeria accounts for 12.4 per cent of the out-of-school children in Sub-Saharan Africa, Education Minister Adamu Adamu, has said. Adamu made this known on Thursday in Benin during activities to mark the 2023 Education Week of the Edo Government. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports the event was themed...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says no fewer than 947,000 candidates have so far sat for this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) within the last two days. The board had earlier disclosed that over 1.5 million candidates were registered for the...
Prof. Charles Igwe, the Vice-Chancellor (VC), University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), says the institution has zero tolerance for any form of sexual harassment and other social vices. Igwe said this in Nsukka on Wednesday at the university’s first International Conference on Gender and Sexual Harassment, organised by Campus-Campaign Against...
Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki on Wednesday said he would want to be remembered for transforming public education and a better workforce needed for national development in the state. Obaseki made this known during the Edo State Education Week 2023 with the theme, “Education for Alaghodaro: Investing in quality...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The President, Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU), Dr. Smart Olugbeko says the union has received with mixed feelings the increase of 40% in the salary of civil servants. Dr. Olugbeko made this known in a statement issued on Wednesday. He said: “The union...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Examinations Council (NECO) has rescheduled the 2023 National Common Entrance Examinations (NCEE) which is conducted for admission into Federal Unity Colleges from Saturday 29th April, 2023 to Saturday 3rd June 2023. This is contained in a statement issued by the Head, Information and...
The Speaker of the Ekiti State House of Assembly, Mrs Olubunmi Adelugba, has charged students in her Emure Constituency to take their studies serious and work hard to be great in life. Adelugba, who stressed the importance of education, gave the charge in a media statement by her Special...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has set a new dawn in the relationship between Nigeria and France with the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with Campus France on collaboration in the areas of joint research and promotion of innovation, training of qualified...
Dr Fabian Benjamin, Head, Public Affairs and Protocol of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), says the conduct of the 2023 UTME exercise so far, nationwide, has been impressive. Benjamin stated this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Lagos. Recall...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board( JAMB) has rescheduled the 2023 UTME exercise for candidates, who could not sit for their exams on Tuesday, 25th April, 2023, on account of technical challenges. This announcement was made in a statement made available after the JAMB management...
Some candidates and their parents have decried the system malfunction and technical glitches that characterised the conduct of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), which started on Tuesday. They spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan, calling on the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB)...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Tuesday kick started the conduct of 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). A visit by our Correspondent to one of the centre in Abuja, the Global Distance Learning Institute, opposite Ministry of Finance, Central Business Area, Abuja...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja- The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has announced that it is postponing the continuation of its Direct Entry registration, which was scheduled to close on Thursday, 20th April, 2023, but was extended by one week to continue on Saturday, 6th May, 2023, when the 2023...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN), Prof. Wahab Olasupo Egbewole, SAN, has inaugurated the University of Ilorin Alumni National Unity Convention Planning Committee to plan and organize a national unity convention by July/August this year. A statement by the institution’s Director...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has urged all candidates sitting for the 2023 main UTME to proceed to print their examination notification slips from Thursday, 20th April, 2023. The Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in a statement issued on...
The management of the Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu has banned the fixing of finger nails, eye lashes and other artificial materials on the body. The institution also banned the wearing of short cloths by staff and students to work and lectures. Rev. Fr. Christian Anieke, Vice Chancellor of the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Registrar/Chief Executive, Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), Prof. Josiah Ajiboye has identified poor teaching, where experienced professional teachers are difficult to find in the schools as greatest challenge facing the nation’s education sector. Ajiboye disclosed this on Thursday in Abuja at the...
By LEKAN AGBOOLA, Ilorin – The Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin has emerged the champion of the 2023 University of Ilorin Mass Communication Department’s Pitch-A-Ton competition. The Pitch-A-Ton event which took place on Wednesday at the University of Ilorin, had Kwara State Polytechnic scored a total of 217 points to...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of all candidates who sat for the rescheduled Mock-UTME held on Tuesday, 18th April, 2023. The Head, Public Affairs and protocol, JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in a statement issued on Wednesday...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – About 84,000 candidates on Tuesday sat for the rescheduled Mock-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Mock-UTME) which was held across the country. Registrar/Chief Executive of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Is-haq Oloyede, who made this known while fielding questions from newsmen after monitoring the...