•Tinubu Following its reintroduction today Thursday, December 21, President Bola Tinubu has directed that the school feeding programme be transferred from the Humanitarian Ministry to the Education Ministry. During a one-day workshop on incremental improvements in the middle ministerial targets between 2023 and 2027, Prof. Tahir Mamman, the Mi...
•JAMB registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, JAMB, has opposed the federal government’s automated deduction of funds accruing to it from the registration fees paid by candidates sitting for the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination, UTME. This came as JAMB denied report that it increased its 2024 UTM...
•The protesting workers Members of staff of the Rufus Giwa Polytechnic, Owo, Ondo State, today, staged a protest against non-payment of the 10 months’ salaries and allowances. The angry workers under the auspices of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions, and the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Polytechnics...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has stated that there is no increase in the registration fee for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for 2024. The board said the cost of purchasing the UTME form remained N3,500 despite an increase in its cost of production. JAMB’s public communication advisor, Fabian Benja...
•Prof Ijeoma Uchegbu A Nigerian-born Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, Ijeoma Uchegbu, who was recently announced as the seventh President of Wolfson College, one of the 31 colleges of the University of Cambridge, on Tuesday morning narrated her academic journey. According to the institution, she is set to assume the role on October 1, ...
•ASUU President Emmanuel Osodeke The Congress of University Academics, CONUA, has said its leadership is not in any reconciliation talks with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU. The union, in a statement today by the National President, Dr Niyi Sunmonu, said a statement credited to the Vice Chancellor of the Federal University, Oye...
The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University, Oye Ekiti, Prof. Abayomi Fasina, has said those rejoicing over the division in the rank of academic staff members of universities in the country would soon be disappointed. He said some elders in the academic community were already working on uniting the two groups, reports The PUNCH. Fasina spoke today...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the official start of profile creation for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) registration exercise. JAMB announced this in a statement yesterday, stating that prospective candidates can now begin creating their profiles on the JAMB ...
•Harvarde College The Gateway State, which usually prides itself as the cradle of Western education and civilisation, is now playing host to a private polytechnic where students are being admitted to study Law, Nursing, Pharmacy and other professional courses. DARE OLAWIN investigates how the institution, Havarde College of Science, Business a...
A veil of anxiety appears to have been flung over university camÂpuses in Nigeria in the wake of academics leaving the country amid the japa wave. University administrators have been thrown into panic as the number of lecturers available for teaching is fast diminishing, reports Sunday Independent. According to Statista Research Department, as...
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