The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Tuesday, cancelled general cut-off marks for admission into tertiary institutions and gave schools the freedom to set their individual minimum benchmarks for admission. The Board took the decision at the 2021 policy meeting, which was held virtually, and chaired by the Minister of Education,...... more
Thirty Opportunity Funds Program scholars of the U.S. Consulate General in Lagos have received fully-funded scholarships totaling $4.35 million to attend American universities and colleges for the 2021/2022 academic session. The financial aid from the US Consulate General covered expenses such as payment for standardized tests, application fees, and visa fees...... more
Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development Sadiya Farouq has flagged off verification of the beneficiaries of the National Home Grown School Feeding in Kogi State. She said the objective was to have a database of the beneficiaries and help in scaling up beneficiaries from the present nine million...... more
The Federal Government has announced the establishment of two additional universities of technology in Jigawa and Akwa Ibom, while also upgrading and equipping four others. The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, who was represented by the Permanent Secretary of the ministry, Mr Sonny Echono disclosed this to newsmen in Abuja...... more
…Says Aguobia-Nomeh school, others already captured for intervention in next phase The administration of Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State said it has carried out 1,355 verifiable projects in various primary and secondary schools across the 17 Local Government Areas of the state, under the State Universal Basic Education Board (ENSUBEB)...... more
An indigene of Nara in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State, Master Ituchukwu Godswill Edeani, has won this year’s edition of “The 774 Young Nigerian Scientists Presidential Award” (774 - YONSPA). Master Edeani, a 15-year old student of Air force Comprehensive School, Agbani, Nkanu West LGA, won the first...... more
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) on Wednesday expressed regret over the reported abduction of students and teachers of the Government Science College, Kagara, Rafi Local Government Area of Niger State. While calling on the Federal Government urgently declare a state of emergency on security situation in the country, the NUT...... more
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday granted provisional license to 20 new private universities to operate in Nigeria bring the total number of private universities in the country to 99. The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of FEC meeting.The new universities...... more
• Proprietress seeks Enugu govt's intervention No fewer than three hundred students of Providence High School, Independence layout, Enugu were on Thursday afternoon locked up inside their school premises as officials of the Assets Management Corporation of Nigeria (AMCON) took possession of the institution on order of the court. The students currently...... more
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the internal Senior Secondary School Examination (SSCE) results. The results show a two per cent increase in the number of candidates who made five credits and above in all subjects. The Registrar, Professor Godswill Obioma, announced this at the NECO Headquarters in Minna. The...... more
Nworie Emmanuel, 27, who graduated with a first-class degree in Mathematics, having scored a CGPA of 4.96 in the 2017/2018 academic session at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, shares his story. Excerpts: Can you briefly introduce yourself? My name is Emmanuel Nworie from the Iza-South Local Government Area of...... more
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has said 65.24 per cent candidates who took the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) obtained credits and above in a minimum of five subjects, including English Language and Mathematics. It also said the results of 215,149 candidates were withheld. It added that...... more
The Rivers State Government has approved the reopening of universities, other tertiary institutions, as well as secondary and vocational schools in the state, with effect from Monday, October 5, 2020. The decision was reached at the end of an emergency State Executive Council meeting on Friday and presided over by Governor...... more
Teachers under the umbrella body of the Nigeria Union of Teachers have appealed to state governments and non-state providers of education to comply strictly with the COVID -19 protocols and guidelines developed for the safe reopening of schools by the Federal Government. They stated that obeying the protocols and guidelines would...... more
* Decisions on next phase of lockdown to be announced on Thursday, says task force The Academic Staff Union of Universities, on Monday, warned the Federal Government against reopening tertiary institutions without taking concrete steps to curb the spread of COVID-19. Zones of the union said social distancing and other COVID-19...... more
The The Honourable Minister of Education, Malla Adamu Adamu has approved the appointment of Mr Obini Onuchukwu as the Acting Registrar of Federal Polytechnic Oko, in Orumba North Council Area of Anambra. His approval followed the recommendation of the Expanded Management Committee (EMC), the Highest decision making body of Federal Polytechnic...... more
Presidential Candidate of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in the last General election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has said that Nigerian government’s policy of unilaterally cancelling the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, held annually by the West African Examinations Council, is not in Nigeria’s best interest. According to a statement he...... more
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has set 160 as the minimum cut-off mark for universities across the country in the 2020 admission session. JAMB's registrar Ishaq Oloyede made the announcement on Tuesday June 16, after the 20th policy meeting on admissions to tertiary institutions. The cut-off mark for polytechnics...... more
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Enugu State Commissioner for Education, Prof Uche Eze has given reasons why the government will not reopen over 100 private schools it closed down late last year. The schools would remain closed until the proprietors secured approval of the ministry, the government insisted. This is as the National Association of Proprietors...... more
An 18-year-old Nigerian, Peter Arotiba from Kogi State, has been awarded the National Distinction and Merit Award by the West Africa Examination Council for emerging overall best student in the 2018 examinations. Arotiba, who is currently studying Medicine and Surgery at the University of Ibadan, graduated from the Nigeria Air Force...... more
The Kogi State House of Assembly has passed a bill changing the name of the state owned university to Prince Abubakar Audu University, Ayingba. Governor Yahaya Bello made the announcement on Saturday at the campaign rally at the university town of Ayingba, Kogi East Senatorial District. Bello said the decision was...... more
Minister of State for Education, Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, has said the Federal Government would work very closely with states and local governments toward closing down secondary schools found to be substandard. Nwajiuba, in a statement signed by the Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations Unit in the ministry, Ben Bem-Goong, said...... more
THE federal government has voted N793 million to restart the Integrated Almajiri, Qur’anic and non-formal schools into formal education in ten states. The new pilot project is expected to take no fewer than 10 million out-of-school children who are mostly Almajiris off the streets to acquire education and skills. The government...... more
Nobel laurete, Prof Wole Soyinka, has described the state of education in the country as horrifying, saying Nigeria is in trouble. The prolific playwright spoke on Sunday at the University of Lagos, Akoka, during the presentation of a play, ‘Folly of Men.’ The play was an adaptation of three plays: Wole...... more
What we see is a cycle of illiterate parents giving birth to illiterate children who will also produce illiterate children and the cycle continues. That cycle of inter-generational illiteracy must be broken – ASUU President Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday said he was pained by the high number of out-of-school children...... more
VICE President Yemi Osinbajo on Tuesday said children benefiting from the Federal Government’s School Feeding Programne have increased to 9.3million across the country. Osinbajo made this known in Ado Ekiti while inaugurating the Homegrown School Feeding Programme at St Michael’s Primary School, Ajilosun. According to him, Ekiti has become the 31st state...... more
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday said it has cancelled the results of two Computer Based (CBT) centres in Abia State over widespread irregularities during the conduct of the just concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). It said the cancellation of the results followed visual evidence obtained from...... more
No fewer than 65 professors from different universities across the country and abroad have indicated interest to occupy the position of Vice Chancellor of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka from June this year. Prominent among the list of professors for the vice chancellor position of the university are the two incumbent...... more
A former lecturer in the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife, Prof. Richard Iyiola Akindele, who was dragged to court for demanding sex to pass one of his students, Monica Osagie, on Monday, was sentenced to two years in prison. Justice Maureen Onyetenu, who had to stand down the case two times,...... more
The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, on Thursday said the Muhammadu Buhari administration was in support of jacking up the retirement age for teachers from 60 to 65 years. The minister made this known at a public hearing on the need to insulate teachers from the retirement age for public...... more
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