By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has released the results of the 2025 Mock UTME, conducted on Thursday, April 10, 2025. Spokesman of JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, who made this known in a statement on Sunday, advised candidates to check their results by...
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Legal luminary and elder statesman, Chief Afe Babalola, Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), has warned the Federal Government to stop mass approval of licenses for new universities. Babalola, who is the founder of the Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), said that approving establishment of universities without consideration for quality...
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Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has commenced the disbursement of N300 million as scholarship to 16,225 indigenous and indigent students of the FCT. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), reports that the scholarship is for the 2023/2024 award for indigent students in public schools. FCT Minister Nyesom Wike, said...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially closed the registration for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The registration process, which began on February 3, 2025, saw a total of 2,030,627 candidates successfully completed their registration, allowing them to participate in...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially announced the commencement of sales for the 2025 Direct Entry (DE) application documents, set to begin on Wednesday, March 12, 2025. In statement on Monday in Abuja by the Spokesman of the board, Dr Fabian...
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri– Borno State Commissioner of Education, Science, Technology, and Innovation, Engr. Lawan Abba Wakilbe, has praised Governor Babagana Umara Zulum for significantly improving the standard and quality of education in the state. Represented by Dr. Abba Galtimari, Director of Schools Management, Wakilbe commended the governor’s unwavering...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said it is taking steps to boost transnational education in Nigeria by partnering with British institutions. This is even as it announced that it would reallocate the savings from its suspended overseas scholarship programme to fund in-house...
The National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) has released the results of its Nov./Dec. 2024 certificate examinations, with 67.56 per cent of candidates obtaining five credits and above. Acting Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of the board, Dr Nnasia Asanga, announced the results on Monday in Benin. He said that...
Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Mr Sonny Echono, has urged both federal and state governments to grant full autonomy to universities. Echono made the call on Saturday during a convocation lecture titled, ‘University Autonomy and the Challenge of Quality Tertiary Education in Nigeria,’ held at...
Mandate Secretary, Education Secretariat, Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), Dr Danlami Hayyo, has said the administration has spent N200 billion on education from 2023 to date. Hayyo disclosed this in Abuja on Tuesday, at the opening of a two-day innovation and entrepreneurship education training for Vice Principals (Academic) in...
Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has said it would close the 2023/2024 student loan application cycle on Feb. 21. Managing Director of NELFUND, Akintunde Sawyerr, who disclosed this at a news conference in Abuja on Monday, said the 2024/2025 application cycle would commence on Feb. 22. Sawyerr said that...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The National Universities Commission (NUC) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Daimlas Corporation, a global leader in Artificial Intelligence (AI) innovation, to establish a comprehensive AI ecosystem across Nigerian universities. The groundbreaking collaboration aims to empower academic institutions with cutting-edge AI resources,...
The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has promised to engage stakeholders over the proposed 12-year basic education structure. Alausa disclosed this during a news conference in Abuja on Friday. The minister had earlier presented a proposal aimed at transitioning to 12 years of compulsory education within the existing...
The Federal Government has proposed a 12-year basic education model but has denied scrapping Junior Secondary School (JSS) and Senior Secondary School (SSS). This is according to a statement by the Director of Press of the Federal Ministry of Education Folashade Boriowo. Boriowo said the Minister of Education Tunji...
By DAVID IORJA, Abuja – President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has announced significant leadership changes at several federal universities, including the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA) now known as Yakubu Gowon University. President Tinubu in a statement on Thursday by his media aide, Bayo Onanuga, said these changes are effective immediately....
Some intending candidates of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) at Abule Egba part of Lagos State spent up to six hours on Monday attempting to be registered. UTME is conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the...
) The World Bank has announced that it has earmarked 1.2 billion dollars for investment in girls’ education across 18 states. The states include; Borno, Ekiti, Kebbi, Kaduna, Plateau, Katsina, Kano, Adamawa, Kogi, Nasarawa, Niger, Bauchi, Jigawa, Yobe, Kwara, Gombe, Sokoto and Zamfara. The World Bank Country Director, Mr...
…appeals to President Tinubu to intervene Determined to continue with its advocacy aimed at improving the quality of infrastructure in public universities across the country for enhanced teaching and leaning, a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO), Education Advancement Initiative (EAI), has called for immediate release of 600 billion Naira this year...