•Rivers State House of Assembly The Rivers State House of Assembly has ordered the arrest of the Vice Chancellor of the PAMO University of Medical Science, Port Harcourt, over scholarship funds disbursed to the institution by the state government, running into several billions of naira. The Assembly said the arrest order became necessary due t...
Candidates who sat for the 2026 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) conducted by the National Examinations Council (NECO) can now check their results online. NECO announced the release of the 2026 SSCE results today, saying 1,371,992 candidates sat for the examination out of the 1,378,048 candidates who registered. According to the ex...
•NECO candidates The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the results of the 2026 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) Internal, with 804,948 candidates, representing 58.67 per cent, obtaining five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics. The Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, Professor Dantani Wushis...
A video showing pupils of Okwue Primary School, Owa-Nta, Delta State, scooping water from their classroom has surfaced on social media. In the video, the pupils were seen using containers to remove water from the classroom while their teacher, who spoke in the local language, appealed for help. Observation by our correspondent in the video [&h...
•NYSC orientation Attending the NYSC orientation camp for the first time can be exciting, but forgetting an important document can make registration stressful. Although most registration is completed online, prospective Corps members are still expected to bring the documents required for verification and registration. The exact requirements ca...
•UK and Nigerian flags Teachers trained in Nigeria and Ghana are no longer eligible to apply for Qualified Teacher Status (QTS) in England under the United Kingdom’s overseas-trained teacher application route. The change took effect on September 9 and means teachers trained in the two West African countries can no longer use the route to [&hel...
…Being The PUNCH Editorial today All eyes are back on tertiary education. While most federal universities are running smoothly, it is not the case at some state-owned universities. From Lagos to Plateau, Kaduna to Taraba, the age-long disruption of the academic calendar is rearing its head again at state-owned universities. State govern...
•The protesting nursing students Hundreds of students of the Taraba State College of Nursing Sciences, Jalingo, today staged a peaceful protest following an overnight attack on one of the female hostels located outside the institution’s premises. The hoodlums allegedly raped a female student during the attack and inflicted injuries on her, inc...
•JAMB candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has lifted its previous ban on the swapping of candidates’ registered phone numbers and changing of registered email addresses, allowing genuine candidates who have lost access to their credentials to update their records through a controlled process. The new policy, which ta...
Fresh confusion has hit the federal government’s 117 unity colleges as a faction of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has ordered an indefinite shutdown of the schools, defying the government directive for students to resume the 2026/2027 academic session yesterday. The latest development has deepened the lingering di...

