The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has officially commenced the payment of arrears arising from the recently approved N77,000 monthly allowance to both current and recently discharged corps members. This confirmation came from the NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General Olakunle Nafiu, who announced that the disbursements are being made ...
No fewer than 28 students of the Institute of Management and Technology (IMT), Enugu, involved in sorting lecturers for the upgrade of scores would be made to face a disciplinary panel, according to the Rector of the school, Prof. Gozie Ogbodo. Prof. Ogbodo stated this when Dr Ben Nwoye, a lecturer at the Enugu State […]
•WAEC candidates The pronouncement by the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, that the conduct of the Senior Secondary School Examinations by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC and the National Examinations Council, NECO, will now be computer-based as from next year, may have to be reviewed, going by opinions by critical stakehold...
•WAEC national office, Lagos A Lagos-based lawyer and human rights activist, Evans Ufeli, has dragged the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, and the Minister of Education before the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, seeking redress for what he described as the gross violation of the fundamental rights of Nigerian students during the c...
•Eshiofune Oghayan The National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS) has announced plans to mobilise one million students across campuses nationwide for a solidarity march in honour of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on June 12, Democracy Day. Tagged the ‘Adupe March’, the procession is aimed at expressing gratitude to the president for what...
•Governor Dikko Radda of Katsina State The Katsina State Government yesterday called for the cancellation of the English language examination recently conducted by the West African Examination Council (WAEC). The call followed an incident which led to the commencement of the examination several hours behind the scheduled time nationwide on Wed...
•Students writing WAEC exam late in the night The House of Representatives has launched an investigation into the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) following shocking reports that some students were made to sit for their West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE) around midnight in parts of Nigeria. Chairman of the Hou...
•Senator Muntari Dandutse The Chairman of the Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund, Senator Muntari Dandutse, has commended President Bola Tinubu for establishing more federal universities in the country, in the last two years. He gave the commendation during a public hearing on three crucial bills for the establishment and am...
Parents of candidates writing the ongoing Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations, SSCE, being conducted by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC, have slammed the Council for subjecting the candidates to untold stress, as they wrote their English Language paper late in the night yesterday. In many parts of the country, the pape...
•Some candidates writing their exam last night The West African Examination Council (WAEC) has apologised for the logistics delay that forced candidates to write the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) at night. The Head of the Nigeria National Office of WAEC, Amos Dangut, said today that the examination body got inform...

