•Nigerian Senate The Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund yesterday met with officials of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB), raising concerns over examination charges, system failures, and access to tertiary education, particularly for students in rural communities. During the session, Senator Amos Yohanna (...
•Road safety officials at scene of an accident No fewer than six final-year nursing students of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) have been confirmed dead in a tragic road crash as they travelled to sit for their final examinations. The six students, all 500-level candidates in the institution’s Open and Distance Learning ...
•Governor Dapo Abiodun congratulating Francis Taiwo Solanke The federal government and Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State have rewarded Mr. Solanke Francis Taiwo, a primary school teacher at Ansa-Ur-Deen Main School I, Kemta Lawa, Abeokuta, with a car and a two-bedroom bungalow, respectively. The governor presented Solanke with the keys to a ...
•JAMB candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Wednesday, reminded all prospective candidates and the general public that the pin vending for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will close on Saturday, February 26, 2026. JAMB stated that the sale of e-PINs which enables a candidate to proceed to...
•WASCE candidates The foremost examination body in West Africa, the West African Examinations Council, has inaugurated the body’s Digital Certificate Services Systems. The system is known as the WAEC DIGICERT, which combines the five member countries — Nigeria, Ghana, The Gambia, Liberia and Sierra Leone, reports Daily Independent. The announc...
•Governor Sanwo-Olu and Miss Etiyemonu Esther Lagos State governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu yesterday temporarily vacated his seat, as a 14-year-old pupil, Miss Esther Etiyemonu, assumed office as one-day governor of the state. Miss Etiyemonu, a Senior Secondary School II (SSS II) pupil of Lagos State Senior Model College, Igbookuta, Imota, Ikorodu...
Academic and commercial activities were paralysed today at Rufus Giwa Polytechnic Owo (RUGIPO) as workers staged a protest over the alleged refusal of the Ondo State government to implement the new national minimum wage. The protesting workers, under the umbrellas of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics (SSANIP) and the Academi...
•University of Benin main gate Entrance of the Ekheuan Campus of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) was blocked this morning by the students of the university over power outage and lack of water for the past three days. The students who came out as early 6:30 am to express their grievances through protest, left workers […]
Vice Chancellor of Bingham University, Karu, Nasarawa State, Professor Haruna Ayuba, has tasked academic staff and postgraduate students to engage in the ethical use of Artificial Intelligence(AI) in their academic research work and writing. Prof. Ayuba stated this recently at a two-day training programme for postgraduate students and academic...
Despite the federal government’s announcement that it has commenced implementation of the renegotiated agreement with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), investigations reveal that the 40 per cent salary increase is yet to be reflected in the pay of lecturers across many federal universities. Findings by our correspondent showed t...
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