Category: Education
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has moved against its members in some chapters who have failed to comply with its decision to continue with the strike, threatening to sanction them. This follows a report that a few members of the lecturers’ union have pulled out of the ongoing industrial action to resume academic […]
The Ladoke Akintola University Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) announced it will go ahead with its strike and urged its members to be vigilant. This was disclosed in a statement jointly signed by the Chairman and Secretary, Professors Biodun Olaniran and Toyin Abegunrin after their Congress reacted to an alleged threat […]
Akwa-Ibom State Governor, Udom Emmanuel, has advised the newly admitted students of Topfaith University to uphold academic and moral excellence to achieve great feats. Emmanuel, while addressing the matriculating students, charged them to replicate the values of the university during their stay in the institution. Represented by his deputy, Moses Ekpo, the governor enjoined the […]
Founder of Lady Craft Artworld, Miss Owamen Elizabeth, has urged government to provide schools with necessary materials needed for the development of arts and crafts in schools. She lamented that the unavailability of these materials in schools is becoming a big problem that needs urgent government attention. Speaking at the grand finale of the Craft […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) said that it conducted the 2022 UTME for foreign candidates on Saturday, May 28. This is as the examination body said that it would further screen 27,105 results of candidates who wrote the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. These disclosures are contained in the JAMB’s Weekly Bulletin from […]
The Federal Government has announced a bold step toward ending the tertiary education strike, stating that it will spend N34 billion as arrears of Minimum Wage Consequential Adjustments in the education sector effective from 2019. This was disclosed by Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige on Tuesday while speaking with newsmen about ongoing […]
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has taken major steps to bring to an end the use of fake Advanced level (A level) certificates by students to secure admissions into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. This was made known by the Registrar and Chief Executive, JAMB, Oloyede in Abuja on Tuesday at a 3-day workshop […]
Thirty-five indigent but brilliant undergraduates from various tertiary institutions in Lagos and Ogun states recently benefitted from this year’s Education and Welfare Endowment Fund (DEWEF) of Rotary Club District 9110. Vice-Chairman, Board of Trustees, Chief Yomi Adewunmi, who disclosed that the District had spent over N200 million since its inception 12 years ago, said the […]
In 2016, when President Mohammadu Buhari-led government launched the school feeding programme, the idea was to address the growing number of out-of-school children, tackle malnutrition due to poverty among Nigerian children and their attendant consequences on education. These, among other crises confronting education, especially poor school enrolment and retention of pupils at primary school level […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has denied reports of error in the scoring of candidates in the just concluded 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). This is as the examination body has warned the public, especially candidates at the just concluded UTME against the deceitful and other unsavoury activities of fraudsters who were […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the lingering strike. Buhari urged ASUU to consider the plight of the students and called off the industrial action. The President made the appeal at the 19th National Productivity Day Celebration and Conferment of National Productivity Order of Merit Award, […]
Barring last-minute interventions, the relative peace enjoyed in the nation’s technical education sector may be truncated as the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics(ASUP) has issued a two weeks ultimatum to the Federal Government to resolve outstanding demands reached with them. The technical union insists that on the expiration of the two weeks ultimatum, it would […]
As CBT centres demand support from government, describe examination as successful The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given reasons it is yet to release results of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, said the examination body is yet to release results due to internal appraisal. He said […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has confirmed that the conduct of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), 2022, for school candidates, has been reverted to the May/June period. This is as the examination is expected to take place between May 16 and June 23, in Nigeria, spanning a period of 6 weeks. […]
Nigerian celebrities have slammed the President Muhammadu Buhari-led government as students across the country continue to stay at home following the lingering Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), strike. ASUU embarked on a one-month warning strike on February 14, 2022, but it was extended on March 14 by two months over some unresolved agreements. Since […]