Category: Education
Ekiti Government has directed public and private schools in the state to resume the third term academic session on Wednesday. The state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mrs Bimpe Aderiye, gave the directive in a statement signed by the Ministry’s Information Officer, Mrs Abimbola Dada, on Tuesday in Ado-Ekiti. Aderiye appealed to parents and […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) says there is no clash in its examination dates with this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The council’s Head of National Office (HNO) Mr Patrick Areghan made the clarification during an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on […]
The Lagos State Police Command has said that it has commenced an investigation into the controversial alleged rape video showing pupils of Chrisland School and would ensure that justice is served. This is contained in a statement issued by the Police Public Relations Officer of the Lagos State Police Command, Benjamin Hundeyin, where he explained […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of results for the 2022 mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted on April 9. This disclosure is contained in JAMB’s Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar, on Monday in Abuja. The examination body said that the students can access their results […]
The Federal Government announced that it is prepared to renegotiate terms with the Academic Staff Union of Universities to get young Nigerian students back to school. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige said this when he received members of the government side of the 2009 Federal Government/University-based unions agreement re-negotiation committee led […]
The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF) has donated 105 copies of ‘Remaking Nigeria,’ a book published to commemorate Nigeria’s 60th independence anniversary, to 21 academic institutions in the country. This followed the decision announced by the NGF in 2021 to donate the books to the institutions so as to make the contents familiar to the Nigerian youth. “We […]
The Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Is-haq Oloyede, has appealed to CBT centre owners to remain calm. Oloyede said the Board is not oblivious of their plight regarding the high cost of diesel in the country. His message was conveyed in a statement by Fabian Benjamin, Head of Public Relations and Protocol. […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that it had so far registered 1, 512, 739 candidates as of Saturday, March 19, for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) examination. This is as the board has maintained that the registration exercise for the examination will still close on […]
The radio station, Nigeria Info, has announced the start of its second edition of the ‘I Beg To Differ’ Student Debate Tournament. The initiative is to contribute to the sector’s growth through promotion of developmental programmes, aimed at equipping Nigerian youths with the required skills to develop sustainable innovative solutions. The competition, which is Nigeria’s […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has so far registered more than one million candidates as at Saturday, March 12, in its ongoing 2022 exercise. The board disclosed this in its Weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar on Monday in Abuja. JAMB stated that the registration for its 2022 Unified […]
The Federal Government has insisted that it has met all of the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) as the union has extended its warning strike by another 2 months. This was made known by the Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, while reacting to the declaration of the rollover […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will blacklist any vendors or agents who violate its rules for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) exercise. The Registrar of the board, Prof Is’haq Oloyede, stated this in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Saturday, while monitoring the registration exercise at some centres. Oloyede, […]
Some stakeholders have condemned the remark by the Federal Government that it has no money to meet the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. Recall that the Minister of Labour, Chris Ngige, had claimed that the Government lacked the money to meet some of the demands of ASUU. ASUU embarked on a […]
The House of Representatives has rejected a bill that seeks to regulate the way children of public officers are going outside the country to study. The bill, sponsored by Sergius Ogun (Edo, PDP), which was slated for second reading, also called for the strengthening of Nigeria’s public institutions to discourage the presence of foreign institutions. […]
The Federal Government has increased the cost of feeding a primary school pupil from N70 to N100 and will be spending about N1bn daily to feed an estimated 10 million children benefiting from the scheme across the country. It disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday during a two-day national consultative meeting on public food procurement […]