The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has been urged to extend the validity of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results from one to three years. A member of the House of Representatives, Akin Rotimi, who made the call also charge JAMB to conduct the UTME at least twice a year, TheCable reported. Rotimi,…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has established a National Minimum Tolerable Score of 140, 100, and 100 for admission to universities, polytechnics, and institutes of education, respectively. Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the JAMB Registrar, announced this on Saturday during the 2023 Policy Meeting of Tertiary Institutions in Abuja. JAMB requires a minimum score for…
She also mentioned that she had to sacrifice her convenience to achieve the feat. Aminat Yusuf, the best graduating student of the 2021/2022 set in Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, has disclosed that hard work and God’s guidance were major factors to her success. Yusuf also thank her parents for motivating and inspiring her to…
The bill would allow students the access to interest-free loans. President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Asiwaju Bola-Ahmed Tinubu has signed the student loan bill into law. This news was disclosed to State House Correspondents by an aide to the president, Dele Alake. According to reports, Nigerian students will have access to loans at…
The PUNCH reports that the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has kickstarted the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination nationwide. Data obtained from the examination body revealed that close to 1.6 million candidates across over 700 centres are expected to take the examination which will come to an end on May 12, 2023, so as to…
Minister for Education insists that the government would not go back on the no work, no pay policy. The Federal Government has insisted that the “No work, No pay” policy for university lecturers would not be deviated from. This was revealed by the Minister for Education, Adamu Adamu during a briefing with State House correspondents…
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has revealed it now offers digital certificate. The certificate is the electronic version of the physical paper certificate, according to WAEC’S Head of National Office, Patrick Areghan, who spoke at the launch in Lagos on Thursday. He said the development is in line with the council’s continuous record of meeting…
The Federal University of Technology, Akure (FUTA) has announced a resumption date for continuation of the 2020/2021 Academic session. This was confirmed in a statement on Thursday by FUTA Registrar, Richard Arifalo. Lectures leading to the completion of the First Semester would resume on Monday; students are expected on campus from Sunday. Arifalo disclosed that…
After exactly eight months, academic activities in Tertiary Institutions are set to resume. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has called off its eight-month-old strike, after a meeting with government officials on Thursday. The National Executive Council meeting, which was held at the ASUU Secretariat in Abuja till the early hours of Friday, has…
The union insists that two or more unions cannot co-exist together in the same sector. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has stated that it is approaching the National Industrial Court (NIC) over the Federal Government’s registration of two other academic unions in the country. On Tuesday, the Federal Government of Nigeria presented certificates…
ASUU may cease to be the ruling body of varsities in Nigeria as things stand. The Nigerian government is set to present a certificate of registration to the Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA), which could see them become a replacement for ASUU. CONUA, which is a breakaway faction of the Academic Staff Union of…
The Congress of Nigerian University Academics (CONUA), a breakaway faction of the Academic Staff Union of Universities led by Niyi Sunmonu, a lecturer at the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, will be receiving a certificate of registration from the Federal Government today, October 4. Minister of Labour and Employment Dr Chris Ngige will do the presentation as…
Academic activities in the country has been shut down for over seven months since the strike started. The National Industrial Court of Nigeria (NICN) has ordered the Academic Staff Union of Universities to call off the strike and return to classes. The Academic Staff Union of Universities has been on a persistent strike since February…
Members of the National Association of Nigerian Students have said they will be blocking the Nnamdi Azikwe International Airport, Abuja and Kaduna-Abuja Expressway today, Wednesday, September 21, as they protest the lingering strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Recall that on Monday, September 19, the aggrieved students also blocked the access roads to both the…
Imo State University, Owerri has asked staff and students to resume on Tuesday, September 20. The comes after the university announced that it has pulled out of the six-month-old strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The Public Relations Officer of the varsity, Ralph Njoku, confirmed this to The Nation, saying the management…
AAC Presidential Candidate, Omoyele Sowore has revealed why President Muhammadu Buhari feels unconcerned as students languish in their homes due to strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Sowore spoke at the protest held by National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) near Lagos Airport on Monday. The students protesting against the lingering strike embarked…
Two winners have won this year’s Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas Ltd. (NLNG) Nigeria Prize for Science award worth $100,000. According to NAN, Prof. Barth Nnaji, a former Minister of Power and Chairperson of the Advisory Board for the prize made the announcement at a news conference in Lagos on Wednesday. The theme of the event…
The students express their displeasure at the lingering strike which is now seven months old. Travellers along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway were left stranded today after students from under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (South-West Zone) stormed the highway to express their displeasure at the ongoing ASUU strike. It is nearly seven…
The ongoing ASUU strike has brought many businesses in university towns to a halt. According to Daily Post, Mega Screen, a once bubbling area at the temporary site of the University of Abuja is currently like a ghost town, it has been like that since February. The students, who are the main lifeblood of this…
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu has revealed the only issue stopping the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU from calling off its strike. He said the issue is the law on “No work, No pay.” Adamu disclosed this to reporters on Tuesday at a meeting with Pro-Chancellors and Vice-Chancellors of Federal Universities at the National Universities…
