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2024 UTME: Stop patronising fraudsters, JAMB warns candidates

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has advised candidates writing the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) to desist from giving their details to fraudsters. The Board Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, gave this counsel when fielding questions from newsmen during the monitoring exercise at the JAMB Professional Centre in Bwari on Friday. “Today’s […]

JAMB orders arrest of parents found at CBT centres

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has directed all Computer-Based Test centre owners to arrest any parent, who is found near any of their facilities during the 2024 UTME exercise. The body said all arrangements have been concluded for the conduct of the 2024 UTME, which will be held in over 700 CBT […]

NECO Reschedules Common Entrance Exam Into Unity Colleges

  The National Examinations Council (NECO) has re-scheduled the 2024 National Common Entrance Examination into Federal Unity Colleges and the Entrance Examination into Federal Government Academy, Suleja, Niger State. In a statement on Tuesday, a spokesperson for the Council, Azeez Sani, said the common entrance examination earlier scheduled to hold on April, 20 2024, would […]

FULL LIST: Top universities in Nigeria

  Covenant University has been ranked above the University of Ibadan and the Federal University of Technology, Akure, as the best university in Nigeria for the second time, according to Times Higher Education‘s 2024 rating. Analysis of the latest ranking on Thursday showed that the university based in Ota, Ogun State, is among the top […]

2024 UTME notification slip ready for printing – JAMB

  The 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination notification slip, which shows candidates the date, venue, and time of their examination, is ready for printing, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said in a statement on Thursday. The statement which was signed by the Board’s Head of Public Affairs, Fabian Benjamin, urged all candidates who have […]

BREAKING: Tinubu signs student loan bill into law

  President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, passed the Student Loans (Access to Higher Education) Act (Repeal and Re-Enactment) Bill, 2024, into law. This comes after separate considerations by both the Senate and the House of Representatives of the report of the Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund More to follow….

SSANU, NASU End Warning Strike, Direct Members To Resume Work

  Members of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), on Sunday, ended their seven-day warning strike. In a circular to branch chairmen at public universities all over the coutry, SSANU President, Mohammed Ibrahim, directed SSANU and NASU members to resume work from Monday, March 25, 2024. One-Week […]

Ghana beats Nigeria, three others in 2023 WASSCE result

  Students from Ghana emerged as the top three candidates with the best results in the 2023 May\June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The exam was conducted by the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) for all the final year secondary school students in its five -member countries, namely: Ghana, Sierra Leone, Gambia, Liberia, […]

WAEC releases results of first computer-based WASSCE

  The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria, has unveiled the results of the first Computer-Based West African Senior School Certificate Examination (CB-WASSCE) for Private Candidates, 2024—First Series. Conducted from Wednesday, January 31, to Saturday, February 17, 2024, the examination witnessed the participation of 8,139 candidates across 140 Computer-Based Test (CBT) centres scattered nationwide.