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...
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….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...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – African universities have been challenged to embrace, deepen digital education and make it acceptable to their societies in order to achieve its desired impact. Dr. Olivier Kuttel, the Head of International Affairs of École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, EPFL, Switzerland, gave the charge on...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has said the Benchmark Minimum Academic Standards (BMAS) for universities has been revised to Core Curriculum Minimum Academic Standards (CCMAS) which will soon be unveiled to the public. The commission said the CCMAS will provide 70 per cent of...
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP), has given the Federal Government a two-week ultimatum to resolve outstanding demands reached with them in order to avert disruptions in the academic calendar. ASUP President, Mr Anderson Ezeibe, made this disclosure while addressing newsmen at the end of an emergency National...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – As part of efforts to strengthen its regulatory powers, the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) on Wednesday, disclosed that it has approached the National Assembly for amendment to the Act establishing the Council to change its name to Teachers Regulatory Council of Nigeria....
The Senate President, Dr Ahmad Lawan, says the Senate will intervene in the lingering dispute between the Federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) by bringing them back to negotiation table. Lawan made the promise on Tuesday in Abuja to officials of the National Association of...
In 1999, the first private university in Nigeria was established in Okada. It was named Igbinedion University. Since then, private educators and investors have literarily taken over the Tertiary Education sector in Nigeria. However, the cost of running these private institutions continues to sky-rocket, a reflection of the economic...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Executive Secretary, Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hammid Bobboyi has said the ECCDE’s implementation is a yardstick for nurturing a child’s educational development through early stimulation and transition into primary school. Dr. Bobboyi said this on Monday at the opening of capacity...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Improvement in Internet network, steady power supply as well as functional computers were among features that made the candidates writing the 2022 UTME excited on Monday, the second day of the exam. It would be recalled that examination which has a total of 1,761,338...
Following the sit-at-home order by the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) every Monday in the South East, candidates writing the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Enugu have been left stranded. The 2022 Computer Based Test (CBT) which began on Friday May 6, ought to have ended...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) on Monday in Abuja began the disbursement of allocation papers for direct intervention funds approved by the presidency to public tertiary institutions in the country. The latest interventions which runs into billions of naira, saw each beneficiary institutions,...
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its ongoing strike for another 12 weeks. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, disclosed this in a statement issued on Monday after its National Executive Council meeting at the Comrade Festus Iyayi National Secretariat, University of Abuja. Prof. Osodeke said the...
The Federal Government says it will resume its negotiations with the striking Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) next week, with a view to ending the prolonged closure of Nigerian public universities. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige, said this in his opening remark at a...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – As over 1.7m candidates on Friday began sitting for 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), Internet network failure, power disruption, malfunctioning of computers were among challenges encountered by candidates. Also slow verification process was identified among the hitches affecting candidates seeking admission into various...