By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has alerted the general public to a well-orchestrated smear campaign against JAMB and its management. The Head, Public Affairs and Protocol of JAMB, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in statement on Thursday. Dr Benjamin said the sinister campaign...
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The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said that it recorded over N60 billion decline in revenue available for its operations. The Executive Secretary of the Fund, Mr Sonny Echono, said this on Thursday in Abuja. This was when members of the House of Representatives Committee on Tertiary Education...
The newly established Teachers Continuous Training Institute (TCTI), in Biase, Cross River State, which kicked off last year is set to be a leading teacher educational institution in Nigeria with capacity to retrain 500,000 primary and secondary school teachers in Nigeria. TCTI was established by the Cross River State...
BY ANKELI EMMANUEL, Sokoto – Governor, Aminu Waziri Tambuwal has distributed teaching and learning materials to each of the education secretariats in the 23 Local Government Areas of the Sokoto state. Governor Tambuwal said the state has also paid all its marching grants and counterpart fund due to UBEC...
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige on Tuesday said voluntary conciliation was adopted to ensure quick resolution of the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Ngige made this known at a three-day capacity building workshop on International Labour Standards and Dispute Resolution in...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, says 85 per cent of Nigerian children between the ages of 1 and 14 experience violent discipline in schools, with nearly 1 in 3 children experiencing severe physical punishment. UNICEF Chief of Education, Saadhna Panday-Soobrayan, disclosed this in...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday said none of its university lecturers has been paid since the union embarked on industrial action in February. Speaking during an interview on Channels Television’s Sunrise Daily, ASUU President, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, accused the Federal Government of using hunger as...
Ny OLA MUDOPE, Lagos – As part of its commitment to making registration for the second series of the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE GCE) for private candidates seamless, Remita, has commenced the sales of the examination ePINs on its portal. Prospective candidates can pay for...
Moshood Edewor, who is the first grandchild of late M.K.O Abiola has said that putting aside the annulment of the June 12 1993 election won by his grandfather, former Military leader, Ibrahim Babangida, is the best President Nigeria has ever had. It was Babangida that annulled Abiola’s election after...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has announced a four weeks extension of the strike action embarked on by its members since February 14, 2022. ASUU National Executive Council (NEC) reached this decision at a meeting held on Sunday, which lasted into the...
University lecturers in the South-South have received with mixed feelings, the recent lowering of cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria, by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). While majority of them have described the new JAMB decision as counter productive and dangerous, others see it...
Stakeholders in the education sector in the North-East have said that continuous lowering of Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) cut-off mark would encourage competition and educational development in the country. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and heads of tertiary institutions of learning and other stakeholders on July...
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), has committed over N500 million to the Nigerian universities and other tertiary institutions across the country to facilitate research and innovations to promote developments in the Nigerian telecommunications industry. Executive Vice Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Umar Danbatta, who disclosed this at a two-day...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has reiterated the commitment of the Federal Government to commence operations in some of the newly constructed smart schools by January 2023. He gave this assurance when a team of Korean...
The Ohanaeze Council of Elders says it is exploring the possibility of establishing a South-East University that will specialise in engineering, medicine, science and technology, and skill acquisition. This is contained in a communique issued by the council at the end of an inaugural meeting of Ohanaeze Council of...
The National Examinations Council (NECO) says the over N2billion examination fees owed it by some state governments is affecting its smooth operations. The Registrar of NECO, Prof Dantani Wushishi, said this in an interview with newsmen on Friday, in Lagos. He was in the state to monitor the ongoing...
By JOY ADARA, Abuja – A total of 184 beneficiaries of the NNPC/Shell Cradle-to-Career scholarship for secondary school students have been migrated to the SPDC JV university scholarship programme in the last five years. The Shell’s Head of Corporate Relations for Nigeria, Igo Weli, who disclosed this in a...
The Vice Chancellor, Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun, Prof. Jeremiah Ojediran, says lowering Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE) cut-off marks will create a level playing ground for students seeking admission. Ojediran made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Ota....
The Speaker of The House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila has apologised after tweeting pictures of himself at Harvard Kennedy School while universities back home remain closed over lecturers’ strike. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has shut down academic activities in Nigeria universities since February after lecturers...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Veritas University, Bwari, Abuja, has shut down academic activities following the directives given by the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Mohammed Bello, that all schools in Abuja should be closed over security concerns. The abrupt closure of the Roman Catholic owned...