By PATRICK ABANG Calabar – Cross River State Governor, Ben Ayade has extended teachers’ retirement age by five years in the state. Governor Ayade stated this on Tuesday, when he received the executive members of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) at an event held on Tuesday at the...
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The 2023 Mock-UTME earlier scheduled for Thursday,16th March, 2023, has been shifted to Thursday, 30th March, 2023. The shift in date is partly owing to the change in the date for the gubernatorial and state houses of assembly elections earlier scheduled to hold on...
By BASSEY EFFIONG, Calabar – The University of Calabar (UNICAL) has announced March 20 as new resumption date for academic activities following the postponement of the Gubernatorial and state House of Assembly elections. The Registrar of the institution, Mr Gabriel Egbe, in a statement said the new date for...
Osun State Governor, Ademola Adeleke has declared in Osogbo on Friday that he was not stopping the establishment of University of Ilesa. The university was established by his predecessor, Alhaji Adegboyega Oyetola on March 31, 2022 when he upgraded the state’s College of Education, Ilesa, to a full-fledged university....
Contained in the Renewed Hope 2023 vision document of President-elect Bola Tinubu is his Education Agenda (contained on pages 40-43), with the motto: “Enlightened minds, an essential pillar of development”. I view this agenda as simply a screenshot of Tinubu’s intentions on education, an education compass, not a detailed...
The Adamawa government on Monday says it will sponsor 41,668 indigent students for the 2023 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and National Examination Commission (NECO). The government would also sponsored indigent candidates of the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB). The state Commissioner for Education and Human Capital...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has dismissed two of its staff for gross misconduct. A statement issued on Wednesday by the Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin gave the names of the dismissed staff as Mr. Bilyaminu Ishaku and Mr. Andrew Anebi Candidus,...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that over 1.16 million tertiary institutions admission seekers have so far registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Registrar of JAMB, Professor Ishaq Oloyede stated this at the weekend during a monitoring...
In making appointments in any university, the Governing Council of such a university must be aware of the existence of internal and external stakeholders. This is the reason the Councils of Universities are made up of external and internal members in the first place. This also explains why when...
Chief IfeanyiChukwuma Odii, the governorship candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in Ebonyi, on Friday in Abakaliki held a town hall meeting with students from the various tertiary institutions in the state. Odii, addressing the students, who were represented by their different Students Union Governments (SUGs) leadership, said...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has denied having challenges with its Central Admissions processing System(CAPS). In a statement by the Head, Public Affairs and Protocol of the Board, Fabian Benjamin, said: “It has come to the knowledge of the Board that some...
The MTN Foundation, on Wednesday, donated science laboratories worth N60 million to Aquinas College, Akure, Ondo State. Chairman of MTN Foundation, Prince Julius Adelusi-Adeluyi, who inaugurated the laboratories, said that the gesture was to strengthen the scientific knowledge of students in Physics, Chemistry and Biology. While noting that the...
UNICEF has trained 18,000 unqualified teachers in the Northeast through the Global Partnership on Education (GPE) Accelerated Fund intervention project beginning from 2021. The 12-month training is an initiative of the Nigerian government through the Federal Ministry of Education, the National Teachers Institute (NTI) and the Teachers Registration Council...
The Niger state government has approved N1 billion for the construction of a Teachers’ Professional Development Centre, to be known and called “Legacy Centre”, in Minna. The state governor, Sani Bello, disclosed this at the combined graduation ceremony of the Niger State Teachers Professional Development Institute, held at the...
By HARUNA AHMED, Kaduna – The Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA), says application into the academy for 75th Regular Course (RC) is still on. The Academic Registrar of the Academy, Brig.-Gen. Ahmed Tukur, made the announcement in a statement issued to on Wednesday in Kaduna. “This is to inform the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has cancelled the registrations of 817 candidates in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Registrar of JAMB, Professor Is-haq Oloyede, who made this known on Tuesday after separate meetings with stakeholders, said the registrations...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has commenced the conduct of a National Employability Benchmarking Programme in Nigerian universities in collaboration with the International Finance Corporation, IFC, and other local partners. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono, said the move is part of...
Gov. Godwin Obaseki of Edo on Friday laid foundation for the construction of an education hub to house a world class library with 50 million titles with state-of- the-art facilities in Edo. Obaseki, who performed the ground breaking ceremony at premises of the Ministry of Education, Iyaro in Benin,...
Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director-General, World Trade Organisation (WTO) on Friday urged increased investment in the education sector to ensure quality of education to school age children, particularly girls. Okonjo-Iweala said this in Abuja on Friday at a summit with the theme: “Girl Child Now: Nurturing Our women-Nigeria’s own wealth...
The Deeper Life Bible Church has announced plans to immediately commence the construction of the permanent campus of its Anchor University on the more than 40-hectare parcel of land earmarked for the project in Maba Town, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. The project site is part of a large expanse...