The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed Friday, July 18, 2024, for the Policy Meeting to deliberate on admissions cut-off marks into tertiary institutions. The meeting which is expected to set minimum cut-off marks for 2024/2025 admissions, would be chaired by the Minister of Education, Prof....
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By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Federal Government has reiterated it readiness to provide equipment for research in the country. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja at the inauguration of the reconstituted TETFund National Research Fund Screening and Monitoring Committee (NRFS&MC) and...
The Federal Government has constituted the governing councils of 111 federal tertiary institutions in the country. This list of the constituted governing councils was released on Saturday by the Federal Ministry of Education. The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Education, Didi Esther Walson-Jack, who released the statement...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The acting Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission (NUC), Chris Maiyaki, has said the federal government is working to reconstitute the governing councils of universities. Dr. Maiyaki said the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman has put in place a panel to...
By MARY RONKE, Ilorin – The University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) has announced the promotion of 40 of its senior academic staff to the rank of professor. The elevation was approved by the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, SAN, according to the University’s bulletin. The publication stated that the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman, has said the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) will defund any non-performing Centre of Excellence it established eight years ago. Mamman said government will not continue to reward indolence by giving free money to institutions that...
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman has pledged to flush out persons in public and private organisations working with fake certificates. Mamman made this known while speaking in Abuja on Friday when he received the report of an Inter-Ministerial Investigative Committee on Degree Certificate Milling from the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – Members of Nigeria Senate on Tuesday put its weight behind the Federal Government move to pegg the minimum entry age into tertiary institutions in the country to 18 years. The support was made known on Tuesday in Abuja when the Chairman of the...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, said on Monday that the Federal Government would consider the possibility of reviewing and pegging the minimum entry age into tertiary institutions in the country to 18 years. The Minister who gave the hint while monitoring the ongoing...
The Federal Government has enrolled two million out-of-school “Almajiri” children in basic and Arabic literacy programmes. Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, made this known at the Citizens and Stakeholders Engagement on Nigerian Education Sector Ministerial Deliverables in Abuja on Tuesday. NAN reports that President Bola Tinubu, on...
The House of Representatives has resolved to halt the planned strike by the Non-Academic Staff of Universities (NASU), with move to intervene in the dispute between the Federal Government and staff of Nigerian Universities. Rep. Abubakar Fulata, Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on University Education made the move...
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman on Wednesday in Abuja met with the leadership of the striking unions to discuss towards ending the warning strike. The unions are Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU), Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities (NASU) and National Association of Academic Technologists...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Minister of Education, Pro. Tahir Mamman has charged African Researchers and Educationist to harness the power of research and education to propel the African continent forward. The Minister made this call while declaring open a conference of West African and Central African...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Minister of Education, Prof. Mamman Tahir, has commended Bayero University, Kano, (BUK) for being a positive, progressive and a rapid science development in the education sector. Tahir gave the commendation while inaugurating the center for teaching, learning, reading and research development, among...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – The Federal Government, through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has disclosed that it would establish over twenty-four skills and innovation centers across the country to assist Nigerians gain their potentials and boost productivity. Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, stated this in...
By JOHN ONAH Abuja – The Federal Government has launched a new teacher development programme, Teacher Internship Scheme (TIS), designed to support States in the emergence of a new generation of teachers with skills and knowledge needed to excel in the digital age and help in the implementation...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja Education Minister, Prof Tahir Mamman has directed the National Universities Commission (NUC) to expedite action towards the completion of the Nuclear Energy Curriculum to enable some Nigerian Universities and the Nigerian Atomic Energy Commission as well as Polytechnics to commence the training of Nuclear...
The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman said the ministry will work within the ambit of the law to facilitate the full implementation of the presidential directive on the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System (IPPIS) as it affects tertiary institutions in the country.” Mamman expressed the commitment during...
By JOHN ONAH, Abuja – In a quest at boosting Research and Development for economic and technological development in Nigeria, the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Administration has approved the sum of N5,128,180,623.63 for the funding of 185 successful research proposals under the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) National...