The tenure of the Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, will end tomorrow. The tenures of 13 other agencies and corporations under the Federal Ministry of Education will also lapse on the same day. The heads of the agencies will stop reporting for duty as from today, […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has rescheduled examination for more than 18,000 candidates who experienced biometric verification challenges and those who genuinely missed the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination as a result of a clash with this year’s National Business and Technical Examinations Board examination. The mop-up UTME is scheduled for Friday, August 6, […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has promised to increase the budget for the education sector by 50 percent over the next two years. Buhari made the promise at the ongoing Education Summit in London, United Kingdom. Leaders attending the summit signed a document titled, ‘Heads Of State Call To Action On Education Financing Ahead Of The Global […]
The Management of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State, has vowed to sanction the lecturer, who allegedly beat a female student, for not wearing Ankara to the classroom. Tribune Online gathered that a student of the university was left with swollen and bleeding skin after she was allegedly beaten by a lecturer. The student, […]
The Federal Government on Tuesday denied allegations that it had breached agreements it reached with the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The Spokesman for the Ministry of Education, Ben Gong, who stated this in an interview with The PUNCH in Abuja, also explained why the Federal Government could not adopt the University Transparency and Accountability […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn the result of one Attama Lawrence Ikedichukwu for acts bordering on impersonation in the just-concluded 2021/2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, who disclosed this Tuesday in Abuja, said Investigations revealed that Mr. Lawrence had hired a professional examination taker to sit the […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has alleged that its members’ salaries are being paid by contractors to the Federal Government. It also faulted the selective payment of salaries to its members with professors in some institutions receiving N80,000, while senior lecturers got N25,000 in June. The President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, in an […]
President Muhammadu Buhari will today Monday travel to the United Kingdom to participate in the Global Education Summit on Financing Global Partnership for Education (GPE) 2021-2025. Thereafter, he will spend a few days undergoing a previously scheduled medical check-up. A statement issued by Femi Adesina, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity) informed that […]
AMIDST rising waves of insecurity in the country, the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has said it has prepared well to hold the forthcoming school-based West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in all the 36 states of the federation and the Federal Capital Territory. The examination is billed to commence on August 16 and […]
University lecturers could go on another strike after the federal government failed to implement agreements reached to suspend a strike by Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The union’s chairman at Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Ibrahim Inuwa, says, “Only two out of the eight items including salary shartfall and visitation panel to federal Universities have […]
