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,...
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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...
By DANJUMA JOSEPH, Lafia – The Wing Commander Abdullahi Ibrahim Vocational and Technical Institute Lafia, has graduated its first batch of 70 trainees, having undergone an intensive three-month training in Information Communication Technology, welding and fabrication. Presenting certificates to the graduands of the institute at a colorful ceremony, on...
By DOMINIC AKPENSUEN, Lafia – The Vice Chancellor, Nasarawa State University Keffi, Prof. Bala Sulieman Muhammed has promised to bestowed financial award to the best three exhibition students as mark of encouragement. Prof. Bala, made the pledge during public exhibition of students products to showcase their entrepreneurship skills and...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – Borno State Governor, Babagana Zulum on Wednesday bid farewell to 19 orphan youths, who will soon be departing to Suez City in Egypt, to study Medicine & Surgery (MBBS) on full government scholarship, for a duration of five years. The scholarship to Suez University...
By CALLISTUS OFFOR, Abuja – MTN Nigeria has announced Kate Ene as its CEO for a day following her emergence as the winner of the 2022 MTN mPulse Spelling Bee out of over 11,000 participants who registered for the competition. Kate, an inspiring 14-year-old student from Intimacy with Christ...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said it apprehended six operators of Computer Based Test (CBT) centres in Kano State over alleged illicit registration of candidates for 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Registrar of the Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this after monitoring the registration in Kano...
Dr Segun Oladipo of the Department of Zoology, Kwara State University (KWASU), Malete, has won the Rufford Foundation Grant of £6,000 (about N5.6 million). A statement on Tuesday signed by the Acting Director, University Public Relations, Dr Sa’eedat Aliyu, said the notice of the grant was addressed to the...