The 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, recorded poor performance by the candidates, as only 168, 613 scored above 200 out of the available 400 marks.

By Elizabeth Osayande The Parish Priest, St Leo Catholic Church Ikeja,  Lagos, Rev John Aniagwu, has said low budget allocation to the education sector is one of the reasons university teachers embark on incessant industrial actions.  Rev. Aniagwu said this at a press conference organised to celebrate the 50th anniversary of his ordination as a […]

By Elizabeth Osayande THE Director, Le Posh School, Ikoyi Lagos, Mrs Ronke Adeniyi, has stated that parents have a great role to play in protecting their children from paedophiles.  She called schools not to be found wanting in the discharge of their duties too. Her words: “We have to tackle paedophilia head on from all […]

*Each institution to fix minimum admission point *Stakeholders fail to arrive on deadline for 2021/2022 By Joseph Erunke, ABUJA THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has cancelled national admission benchmark, otherwise called cut-off mark. With the scrapping of the age-long method, each of the nation’s tertiary institutions is now authorised to peg its admission […]

A senior lecturer in the Department of Urban Regional and Planning, Yaba College of Technology, YABATECH, Dr. Philips Fgbohun, has revealed that the only viable solution to cities challenges was to remove the uncertainty, through adequate provision of basic needs of life towards creating a functional global city.