Graduates from the top 50 non-British universities can apply to come to Britain as part of a new visa scheme, Home Secretary Priti Patel said on Monday. The most recent list of eligible universities from 2021, published online by the government, comprises 20 U.S. institutions, plus universities from Canada,...
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By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it would further screen 27,105 results of candidates who wrote the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB disclosed this on Monday in its Weekly Bulletin issued from the Office of the Registrar in Abuja. The...
BY JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Examinations Council (NECO) has extended the registration period of the 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for school based candidates to midnight of Monday, June 20. The Head, Information and Public Relations Division of NECO, Mr Azeez Sani, announced the extension in...
Miss Oluebebe Ogbonna, a 14-year-old student of Divine Rays British School Obosi, Idemili North of Anambra, on Sunday emerged winner of the first Igbo Spelling Bee competition. Ogbonna came tops in the competition in which 356 public and private secondary school students in Awka, Nnewi and Onitsha educational zones...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has set up mechanism to institute new dimension strategies in basic education in the country. This was the submission of the Executive Secretary of the commission Dr. Hamid Boboyi at the 2-day interactive meeting of the Department of Special...
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has urged governments to take greater action to ensure schools remain safe for boys and girls. UNICEF’s Executive Director, Ms Catherine Russell, made the call on Wednesday, following the latest deadly school shooting in the United States. No fewer than 19 children and two...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri – United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) has provided 102,859 children access to inclusive, equitable and quality education in a safe and protective learning environment mostly girls in Borno State. Unicef has also supported a total of 29,985 out-of-school youths and adolescents , mostly females...
The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), says more than 8,000 candidates have been shortlisted for interview for its Overseas Scholarship Scheme (OSS) for Masters and PhD award. Alhaji Bello Mustapha, Head, Overseas Scholarship Scheme Division, PTDF made this known on Monday in Abuja at the opening of selection interview...
Prof. Danladi Matawal, a Professor of Civil Engineering with the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, has identified corruption, poor funding, insecurity and decline of the teaching profession as the major factors responsible for the decline in the educational standard in the country. Matawal stated this in Abuja on Saturday...
The Nigeria Inter-Religious Council (NIREC) affirms that education is one of the shortest ways to sustain peace and freedom in the country. According to it, with sound education of the people, many of the socially induced crises that bedevil the society, such as religious upheavals that lead to human...
The recent decision by Governor of Delta State, Ifeanyi Okowa, to provide financial aid to 40 schools it returned to religious missions in 2011, again underscores the time-honoured belief that leaders must learn the art of management, an art of engineering and a skill to absorb and mater success...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government on Thursday tasked traditional and religious leaders in Nigeria to join forces with the government in the efforts to reduce the high number of out-of-school children estimated at 10.5 million and myriads of other challenges besetting basic education in the country....
Cubana Chief Priest, the popular Instagram celebrity, has pledged support for students engaging in peaceful protest to put an end to the ongoing Academic staff Union of Universities(ASUU) strike. According to Cubana, the crime rate keeps increasing because youths are not properly engaged. In a shared Instagram post on...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), is transforming tertiary institutions in the country to produce graduate that can be globally competitive with necessary skills and innovation The Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono stated this during a visit to INNOVATEHUB in Abuja. He...
….Says no plans to organise another UTME By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned the general public, particularly candidates in the just- concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), to be wary of the guile and other unsavoury activities of fraudsters who...
Some parents have expressed worry over the backlog of admissions following incessant strikes by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in the country. NAN reports that in 2020, ASUU went on a nine-month strike, which was the longest since 1999 and about two years later on Feb. 14,...
Students of the Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA), Ondo State, on Monday barricaded the Akure-Ilesa Highway, protesting the prolonged strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The action of the students forced many motorists and travellers to be stranded. The protesters blocked the highway at the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has recommended the termination of contracts and sanctions for erring contractors handling projects in institutions benefiting from its various interventions. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono, disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday, at the 2021 Annual General...
By OLA MUDOPE, Akure – The Governing Council of the Federal University of Technology Akure, FUTA has appointed Professor (Mrs) Adenike Temidayo Oladiji of the Department of Biochemistry, University of Ilorin, as the eighth substantive Vice Chancellor of the University. Professor Oladiji succeeds Professor Joseph Fuwape, whose term ends...
Outlines process for checking 2022 UTME results By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the just concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Dr. Fabian Benjamin, The Head, Public Affairs and Protocol JAMB, disclosed this in a statement issued...