10 things you need to know about Basic Education in Nigeria

The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, has said the country needs additional 194,876 qualified teachers to fill the existing gaps in the basic education sector.

THE Joint Action Committee, JAC, of the non-teaching staff unions in the universities on Tuesday appealed to President Bola Tinubu to intervene on payment of the withheld four months salaries.

Chief Godwin Ubaka Okeke, a transport mogul and Chairman of GUO Motors Limited and co-founder of Godwin and Patricia Okeke Foundation, has said he built digital classrooms and dormitories for no fewer than 8,000 people with special needs in Anambra in order to give them a sense of belonging and enable them have access to quality education.

A Nigerian-Canadian lady, Dr Chika  Olijo, has won the George Frieur Award at the University of Calgary Cummings School of Post Graduate Medical Education, Alberta, Canada; as result of her outstanding performance in their residency programme.

The Faculty of Biological Sciences, University of Nigeria, Nsukka has taken a bold step by beaming its research attention to providing biotherapeutic and biotechnological solutions to the myriads of biosciences and biomedical challenges confronting contemporary society.

THE meeting convened by the federal government over the threat by the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, NASU, not to embark on strike ended in deadlock weekend, Vanguard has gathered.

“First is the issue of Students loan. There was a misrepresentation by JAMB. And they have since corrected it. You can confirm from JAMB. We have always registered with JAMB every semester after admission.”

A lecturer in the Department of Mass Communication, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Dr Gever Verlumun, has put Nigeria on the global map, as a journal he set up, the Ianna Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, has outperformed 72 percent of other journals globally under the multidisciplinary category. This is  based on the 2024 data on journal performance released by Scopus in June 2024.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB,says its quest to sanitize admissions into the nation’s tertiary institutions has resulted to discovery of 3,000 fake graduates and illegal certificates.