Can Tinubu’s education reforms rescue a generation? – Inside Alausa’s ambitious agenda
With nearly 46m children captured in education data system, 250,000 Nigerians undergoing training and one million out-of-school children back in classrooms...
NECO: Can it weather the storm?
The National Examinations Council (NECO) was established in April 1999 by Federal Government in line with decisions reached at the 49th meeting of the National Council on Education. This was in response to the national outcry for another public examination body indigenous to the country.
JAMB at crossroads, NECO’s fate unknown
Initially, Nigerian universities, indeed tertiary institutions were conducting entrance
examinations for candidates seeking admission until 1978 when the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) was established by Decree (Act) which subsequently was amended in 1989 and 1993.
It’s worst decision anyone could ever take – Ogudoro
The proposed scrapping of National Examinations Council, NECO, National Poverty Eradication Programme, NAPEP, make Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME the only entrance examination into higher institutions had since been generating uproar
NECO, JAMB: To scrap or not to scrap?
The spotlight has again fallen on Nigeria’s educational system. And right now, the nation and its education stake holders are in a state of serious debate as to whether or not to still retain some of the examination bodies already seen as part of the determinants to higher studies.
Weak states, poor governance cause of insecurity in West Africa
WEST Africa is known to be one of the world’s major sources of resources such as gold, uranium, diamond, bauxite, coal, oil and gas, cocoa, among others. It is also a volatile region characterised by poor governance, weak state structures, poverty, war, stagnant economy, corruption and disease. For years, it has become a major transit […]
