Students of Michael Okpara University of Agriculture Umudike,(MOUAU) in Abia State, on Tuesday began protests after the school management reportedly stopped many students from writing examinations over non payment of school fees. In many posts and videos on social media on Tuesday morning, students were seen protesting in the campus. In a Facebook campus […]
The Bayelsa State Government has said it is working on plans to make the teaching and learning of the Ijaw, French and Chinese languages as well as science and mathematics a priority in public schools in the state. It stated that the essence of emphasising the teaching of the three languages, and the core […]
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has declared the commencement of the first-ever free computer-based mock exam for private applicants participating in the 2024 first-series West African Senior Secondary School Examination (WASSCE). All prospective candidates are encouraged to participate in the mock test, slated for January 23–24, as announced in a statement issued by […]
The Federal Government says it will develop an app for applications into the student loan scheme. This is according to the Executive Secretary of the Student Loan Scheme Board Akintunde Sawyer who spoke on Monday after the board met with President Bola Tinubu in Abuja. Sawyer said the move is to ensure zero human […]
The academic and non-academic staff unions of Abia State University (ABSU), Uturu, have been absent from their workplaces due to the inability of the state government to pay their outstanding 11 months of salary arrears, TheNation reports. The workers, through their various union leaders, had given the school’s management a deadline of December 31 […]
The Federal Government on Wednesday said that the January commencement of the student loan scheme with plans for the timely access of students to the credit facility within 30 days is still intact. Minister of State for Education, Yusuf Sununu, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting […]
The Joint Admission and Matriculations Board has commenced the 2024/2025 Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examinations registration process for all interested candidates across the country. Following the announcement, JAMB rolled out the registration process for interested candidates across the country. The JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, during a meeting with media executives in Lagos State on Sunday, […]
The Joint Admission and Matriculations Board has said Persons Living With Disability who wish to sit for the 2024/2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination can register at no cost. The JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this while rolling out the registration process for interested candidates across the country. While announcing that registration for the 2024 […]
The Federal Government through the Federal Ministry of Education on Tuesday, inaugurated an inter-ministerial committee to look into the activities of private and foreign universities operating in the country. The committee has, as some of its members, the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede; the Minister of Youths, Jamila […]
The National Universities Commission on Monday denied reports that it uncovered a total of 100 fake professors in some universities across the country. Some media organisations (excluding The PUNCH) had listed some universities as part of the institutions indicted by the NUC for having fake professors. But the NUC in a statement released on […]
