Category: Education
Tragedies of monumental proportions have taken over our academic environment in recent times as students, sent by parents to achieve academic laurels, have become monsters constituting nuisance to their own future and society. Experiences have shown consistent challenge to societal moral control when tertiary institution students developed destructive cultures of cultism, which led to the […]
An Osogbo Magistrate Court has remanded a teacher at L. A. Secondary School, Ipetumodu, Ife North Local Council of Osun State, Mr. Lawal Afolabi in prison custody for allegedly raping an underage student of the school. Chief Magistrate A. A. Adebayo remanded him in Ilesa Correctional Centre after he was arraigned on a count rape, […]
The Anambra State Government has approved Saturdays as school days in place of Mondays, which have been taken by the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB). IPOB had on July 30 ordered a sit-at-home protest in the South-East every Monday until Nnamdi Kanu, its leader, would be released from the custody of […]
The Lagos State Government is not happy that three days after the official resumption of schools for a new term, some private schools are still on holiday, while attendance has not peaked in those which have resumed. The Director-General, Office of Education Quality Assurance, OEQA, Mrs Abiola Seriki-Ayeni, who led a team to monitor compliance […]
Students seeking admission into Universities, Polytechnics, Colleges of Educations and other higher institutions will now have two more subjects to sit for in the yearly Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The development was contained in an address in Abuja on Saturday, December 4 by the Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB. According to Oloyede, the […]
The Lagos State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to improving Basic Education in the State, highlighting the various programmes and initiatives introduced by the government to ensure that learning is accessible to all children across the State. The Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, maintained that the administration of Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu will continue to […]
The Lagos State Ministry of Education has urged administrators in all public and private schools in the State to step up safety measures towards reducing insecurity and untoward incidences. The Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Folasade Adefisayo, made the appeal in a statement issued to welcome students, teachers and school administrators to the beginning of a New Year and Second Term of Y2021/2022 School Session in Lagos State. She directed school administrators […]
This is to inform all the candidates that participated in the University of Lagos (UNILAG) 2021/2022 academic session post UTME aptitude test that the management of the institution has released the names of successfully admitted candidates. How to Check UNILAG Admission List Currently, you can only access your UNILAG admission status on JAMB admission status checking […]
The Founder, Royal School of Educational Therapy Foundation, Dr Badewa Adejugbe-Williams, has called for the incorporation of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) into special education schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Adejugbe-Williams made the call Friday in Abuja at a news conference on “Strengthening Education in Special Schools“. She said the integration of […]
THe West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has said 80.56 percent of the results of candidates that sat for the West African Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, have been fully processed, and that the remaining19.44 percent are being delayed because of some issues. The Head of Nigeria National office of the Council, Mr. Patrick Areghan, […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has asked all prospective candidates for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) to acquire their National Identification Number (NIN) ahead of the exercise. The board stated this on Monday in its weekly bulletin released by the Office of the Registrar in Abuja. JAMB said that it would […]
Thirty Nigerian scholars have received from the United States Consulate General in Lagos, fully funded scholarships totalling $4.35m to attend American universities and colleges for the 2021/2022 academic session. A statement said the US Consol General, Claire Pierangelo, made this known on Thursday according to a statement, while receiving the US-bound students under the Opportunity […]
The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has said that at least 1.6 million candidates are expected to take part in this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) scheduled to commence on August 16. This is as the council is working round the clock to accommodate some schools that are still processing late registrations. […]
Governments across the country have been tasked to change tactics in securing school children who have become high targets by armed bandits and kidnappers. A lecturer at the Gombe State University, Dr. Umar Adamu, who decried the consistency in which these attacks have been going on without any solution, said the situation is so alarming […]
The JAMB Registrar, Is-haq Oloyede, has blamed the coronavirus pandemic for the poor performance of candidates in the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. While appearing on a live programme on a Nigerian Television Authority’s tagged “Weekend File”, Oloyede confirmed that this year’s UTME results were poorer than those of three years ago. The registrar said […]
