The Lagos State Government has announced resumption guidelines for the 2021/2022 Academic Session for public and private schools across the State. Schools are expected to resume on Sept.  13, while for Model Colleges and Upgraded Schools students are to resume in batches from Sept. 19, 2021. This was contained in a statement by Mr Ganiu […]

Ekiti state government on Monday embarked on monitoring of activities and inspection of schools, as pupils and students resumed for the 2021/2022 academic session across the state. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that there was a large turn-out of students and teachers in Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, as both public and private schools […]

By Arogbonlo Israel The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has warned corps members to desist from promoting or sharing through social media unsubstantiated information that is not from credible and responsible sources. The NYSC DG issued the warning this morning in a virtual meeting he held nationwide with […]

The Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, OJAJA II,  has expressed confidence in polytechnic education in Nigeria

Mixed reactions have continued to trail the recent scrapping of general cut off marks for admission into the country’s tertiary institutions by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that JAMB had at its Aug. 31, 2021 virtual policy meeting said that tertiary institutions were now to set their […]

Faculties of Education in Nigerian universities had the capacity to admit 111, 601 candidates, but only 95, 317 applied out of which 80, 857 were admitted.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, is waiting until midnight today, Tuesday, for the Federal Government to meet its demands or risks the union embarking on another round of strike.

*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 […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, is not embarking on industrial action from Tuesday, a member of the National Executive Committee, NEC, of the union has said.

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has been commended for reappointing Prof. Ishaq Oloyede and Prof. Abubakar Adamu Rasheed as the Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB and the Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission, NUC, respectively.

By Modupe Ogunji, Victoria Nwachukwu & Josiah Oghagbon The West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WAEC, has commenced the registration for 2021 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for second series. The body, in an advertorial signed Monday, by its Head of National Centre, Patrick Areghan, rolled out certain rules and regulations to be strictly adhered to. […]

The Vice-Chancellor of the Abia State University Uturu ABSU, Professor Onyemachi Ogbulu, has declared war against cultism, examination malpractice and indecent dressing on campus.

The Director General of the National Youth Service Corps, Bigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim has eulogised the management and staff of NYSC Ondo over the completion of the ultra modern camp clinic and the Skill Acquisition and Entrepreneurship Development (SAED) Centre in the State.

Zainab Sulaiman recently bagged 2-Star Doctor of Science (DSc) award in Child Developmental Science. She is the first Nigerian young woman to be conferred the award by Human Rights Education Federation.

. By Davies Iheamnachor, PORT HARCOURT The Rivers State Government has cautioned private schools to obey an earlier outline of school activities in the state or face sanction, warning that any school that ends the session on 20th August would be sanctioned. The state government had last year released an outline which stipulated that schools […]