The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, announced in a television programme that the Federal Government had instituted a new age policy for secondary school leaving examinations, setting the minimum age at 18. This means underage candidates will no longer be allowed to sit for the West African Senior School Certificate Examination and the Senior School […]
Public university lecturers, following resolutions reached at the union’s National Executive Council meeting held at the University of Ibadan on August 19, 2024, threatened to go on a nationwide strike over the Federal Government’s failure to honour the 2009 renegotiated agreement. ASUU’s demands include improvements in varsity workers’ welfare, university funding, and halting the proliferation […]
The minister who stated this in a Television programme said the Federal Government has instructed the West African Examinations Council ,WAEC, which administers the West African Senior School Certificate Examination ,WASSCE, and the National Examinations Council ,NECO, which organises the Senior School Certificate Examination ,SSCE, to comply with the directive on 18 years age limit […]
The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of NELFUND, Akintunde Sawyer revealed this while speaking during a summit and sensitization programme by the National Association of Nigerian Students ,NANS, in Rivers State. According to him, the fund had paid the tuition fees of 20, 000 students in six universities, including the University of Ibadan, University […]
This was revealed in a memo by the Jamb Admission MatriculationBoard ,JAMB. According to JAMB’s Public Communications Advisor, Fabian Benjamin,the initiative is one of the recommendations made by a committee setup by the Federal Government to combat fake degree racketeering inthe country. According to the memo, institutions are to regularly submit theirmatriculation lists to the […]
JAMB, had on April 29, 2024, released the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results and, out of the 1,904,189, who sat the examination, 8,401 scored 300 and above; 77,070 scored 250 and above; 439,974 scored 200 and above, with 1,402,490 scoring below 200 pass mark. The meeting scheduled for July 18 will be chaired by the […]
Some weeks back, the Federal Government released a list of members of the reconstituted governing councils but the Academic Staff Union of Universities ,ASUU, and other stakeholders kicked against it over allegations of lopsideness. This prompted the withdrawal of the list for review. But in a statement, the Office of the Secretary to the Government […]