A Final year student of the Cross Rivers University of Technology CRUTECH, was shot dead this morning at about 11.30am shortly after he finished his final year first semester examination. He was said to have been stepping out of the examination hall when he was accosted by some fierce looking men […]
Education
Non-academic staff of Nigerian universities will on Monday begin a three-day nationwide protest as a notice of their intention to go on an indefinite strike over the failure of the federal government to implement its agreement with them. The agitation by the non-teaching staff is coming four months after their […]
According to the report, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved N5 billion for research in tertiary institutions, Jeossyjs gathered. The money will be disbursed by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund through its National Research Fund. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Suleiman Bogoro stated this during the inauguration of a national research […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday described the President Muhammadu Buhari’s policy on education as anti-masses. It accused the All Progressives Congress government of a deliberate plan to starve public education with funds in order to deny Nigerian youths the right to know and challenge misrule. In a […]
The Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps has arrested a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination candidate, Cletus Kokowa, for allegedly hiring a syndicate to upgrade his scores from 162 to 206. The NSCDC arrested Kokowa on Thursday at the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board headquarters in Bwari, Abuja, where he confessed […]
Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Anambra governing council has dismissed Dr Peter Ekemezie, a senior lecturer at the Department of Pure and Industrial Chemistry, Faculty of Physical Sciences of the institution over certificate forgery. According to a report by Daily Trust, the senior lecturer was sacked for the gross misconduct of plagiarism. He […]
Ben Murray Bruce has written in a Tweet that the country, Nigeria’s Universities have been spending scarce resources on courses that are irrelevant to her. “Nigerian universities are spending scarce resources on courses that are not relevant to Nigeria. Instead of STEMs (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math), we are churning […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) on Sunday advised people in possession of its certificates to guard them well, saying it will not re-issue on account of misplacement, fire, flood or theft. The council’s Head of National Office, Mr Olu Adenipekun, gave the advice in an interview with the News […]
President Muhammadu Buhari Saturday said he has approved N208billion as part of 2019 intervention through the Tertiary Education Trust Fund for infrastructural and teacher development in public tertiary institutions The president said the intervention was part of his administration’s effort to address the deficiencies in all the segments of our […]
Director-General, National Youth Service Corps, Shuaibu Ibrahim, has said the scheme will communicate to corps members when the payment of N30,000 new allowance would take off. The DG stated this on Friday at a workshop/training on Freedom of Information Act for Desk Officers of the NYSC in Abuja. When he […]
Some candidates of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have reacted to the 160 cut-off mark for the 2019/2020 admissions process. The candidates spoke in interviews with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Bwari. Recall that Key stakeholders in tertiary institutions across the country on Tuesday pegged 160 […]
A Bayero university first class graduate identified as Al-Ameen, reportedly died a day after his graduation from the institution. Twitter user @Baffah16 who the story of the Bayero university first class graduate who died a day after his graduation, tweeted; “He graduated with first class yesterday and pass away today,may […]
The Governor made the decision based on the fact that students of public schools in the state had stayed out of their classrooms for several days as a result of recent industrial actions and public holidays. This announcement was contained in a circular with reference number, Edu1070/Col.VI/27, dated June 11, […]
Ahead of the registration of the new batch of Prospective Corp members, NYSC has released an important information for Female NYSC Corps Members that are Married. Below is what they wrote on their official social media page: “PUBLIC NOTICE This is to inform Married Female Corps Members who requested for […]
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has approved 160 and above as the national minimum cutoff mark for admission into state and federal Universities for the year 2019. The decision was taken at a meeting held at Bola Babalakin Auditorium, Gbongan, Osun State today Tuesday June 11th. It was also […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says no hopeful of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has more than one outcome. The board expressed this in its week by week announcement discharged from the workplace of the Registrar on Sunday in Abuja, NAN reports. The announcement cited the […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has not published the national and general minimum cut-off marks for placement of candidates into the nation’s tertiary institutions as was being speculated in some quarters. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with […]
A Nigerian lady identified has @ebunjaspa96 has stated that the Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU is the headquarters of the activities of Yahoo Boys in Nigeria. According to her, if anyone attends the Onabisi Onabanjo University and does not get involved with practicing ‘yahoo yahoo’, then such person has a high […]
Following the backlog of salaries owed to primary and secondary school teachers in Abia State, the leaders of the teachers union on Monday announced an indefinite, crippling academic activities in the schools. Source revealed that the State Government is making frantic effort to resolve the industrial action and get the […]
A graduate identified as Pok Wong who sued her university over her useless degree has received a £60,000 out-of-court settlement. Pok Wong graduated with a first in international business strategy from Anglia Ruskin University in 2013. But she claimed the university “exaggerated the prospects of a career” and sued them […]
The National president of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) Professor Abiodun Ogunyemi has said that the union has shelved its plan to mobilise its members for industrial action to press home its demand for the fulfillment of the agreement it reached with the federal government, Jeossyjs gathered. The ASUU […]
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released 4,536 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results which were earlier withheld for allegations of multiple infractions. Reports have it that over 1.8million candidates had sat for the unified examination between April 11 and April 18, but only 1,792,000 results were released on […]
This was made known by the NYSC Director-General, Brig Shuaibu Ibrahim, while speaking at the 2019 Batch B pre-mobilisation workshop which held in Abuja. According to him, the measure was to checkmate the habit of some institutions presenting over-aged graduates for the mandatory post-graduation scheme. “We have observed that some […]
The Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offenses Commission, ICPC, has begun investigations into malpractices which allegedly took place during the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. This was made known by a member of Board of the commission, Mrs Olubukola Balogun, in an interview with newsmen in Abuja on Tuesday. […]