•Zulum The Borno State Government has approved the immediate release of over N55.9 million for payment of registration fees of 153 medical students in a bid to resuscitate the health sector which is the worst hit by the insurgent crisis. The Executive Secretary of the Borno State Scholarship Board, Malam Bala Isa, disclosed this while [&hellip...
•CBT centre The Arewa Youth Consultative Forum (AYCF), has passionately called for the cancellation of the Computer-Based Test (CBT) format in the forthcoming West African Examinations Council (WAEC) exams. The forum believes that such mode of examination to be introduced will result in massive failure for students, particularly in rural state...
•NUC headquarters, Abuja The National Universities Commission (NUC) has identified at least fifty-eight (58) illegal universities operating in Nigeria. The names include those who claim to be affiliates of foreign universities in the country. Also, nine degree mills are currently undergoing further investigations and/or court actions. The deve...
•NANS president, Benin Republic, Ugochukwu Favour The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Benin Republic, has called for leniency over the ban on validation of degree certificates from the country and Togo, saying 15,000 Nigerian students are in Benin. A reporter detailed how he bagged a degree in under two months from a universi...
•Umar Audu Nigerian investigative journalist, Umar Audu, said yesterday he was worried about his safety, following his recent investigative report which uncovered a fake results syndicate in Togo and Benin Republic. It will be recalled that the investigative journalist with Daily Nigeria newspaper, reported recently that he bagged a degree wit...
•Education Minister Tahir Mamman Following the suspension of accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo, the federal government has said the sanction would be extended to more countries like Uganda, Kenya and Niger Republic. “We are not going to stop at just Benin and Togo,” Education Minister Tahir Mamman...
The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Southwest Zone, has urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation Limited, NNPCL, not to think of increasing the pump price of petrol to N1,200 per litre as being canvassed by some people and groups. The student body, in a statement by the Zonal Coordinator, Comrade Alao John, the Secret...
•Minister of Education, Mamman Tahir The National Union of Nigerian Students (NANS) has asked the federal government to reassess the suspension placed on the accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from neighbouring Benin Republic and Togo. The federal government yesterday suspended certificates from the two francophone West Africa...
•Education Minister, Tahir The federal government has suspended the evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from the Republic of Benin and Togo, respectively. The Federal Ministry of Education made the announcement today, reports Vanguard. The Ministry noted that its decision followed an undercover investigation conducted by a Nige...
•Youth Corpers The federal government has announced the suspension of evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from Benin, Togo. In a statement issued today signed by Augustina Obilor-Duru on behalf of the Director Press and Public Relations, Federal Ministry of Education, the government lamented that “some Nigerians deploy nefariou...

