•Ishaq Oloyede The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned some tertiary institutions against the practice where students are graduated and issued certificates without due matriculation. JAMB registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, who raised concerns about the development, revealed that some of the affected institutions have fa...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has accused the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) of admission racketeering. The examination body which welcomed the decision of the Senate to probe alleged admission racketeering in universities, maintained that it would be vindicated, reports The Guardian. Recall that the Senate had last ...
•Dapo Abiodun Students in Ogun State-owned tertiary institutions have demanded the immediate reversal of the hike in tuition. The students, under the aegis of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), Ogun State, lamented that the hike they said is targeted at making life unbearable for them and the entire people of the state. Addr...
•Nigerian Senate After harmonising the N2.17 trillion 2023 Supplementary Budget, the Senate and the House of Representatives have raised the student loan appropriation to N10billion. Both chambers dropped the controversial presidential yacht, for which N5 billion was budgeted. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu assured Nigerians after signing the bud...
The Lagos State University, Ojo, has removed the Dean of Student Affairs, Prof. Tajudeen Olumoko. His removal was in connection with a news report published on Monday by an online news platform (not The Frontier). The story revealed that a certificate racketeering syndicate had genuine Lagos State University certificates that anyone interested...
The federal government has upgraded the Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education (AIFCE) to a university status. This was disclosed by the former provost of the AIFCE who is now the acting Deputy Vice-Chancellor, Dr. Stella Lemchi. She said: “We bring you warm greetings from the entire Community of Alvan Ikoku University of Education, Owerri. ...
•Makinde The Oyo State Government has said it would work with Education secretaries, and heads of sections in all local governments towards shutting down substandard primary schools in the state. The commissioner for education, science and technology, Prof. Soliu Adelabu, in a meeting with basic education stakeholders on Wednesday said “mushro...
•Unilag The Academic Staff Union of Universities and the Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities have described the plan by the federal government to automatically deduct 40 per cent from the Internally Generated Revenue of universities in the country as an attack on the university system. The FG, in a letter dated October 17, [...
•AGF Oluwatoyin Madein The federal government has commenced the implementation of an automatic 40 per cent deduction of Internally Generated Revenues of Federal Universities and other partially funded institutions across the country. The auto-deduction policy of gross IGR is in line with the Finance Circular with reference number FMFBNP/OTHERS...
•NYSC Graduating students of a private College of Education in Akure, All-State College of Education, Ero, in Ifedore Local Government Area of the state, today, shut down the school, protesting over the failure of the institution to mobilise the National Youth Service Scheme (NYSC). The protesting students who blocked the road also held the Pr...