•UTME candidates No fewer than 200,000 more candidates crossed the 200 average mark in the Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examination after the recent resit organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Examination Board, following the technical and human errors that marred the original exam. In the resit UTME results released yester...
•Students writing WAEC with torchlights at night The Federal Ministry of Education has condemned an incident of candidates writing the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) at night using torchlights. The Minister of State for Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, expressed his displeasure in a statement issued yesterday in Abuja b...
•Late Timilehin and her father, Femi Opesusi Femi Opesusi, the father of the late Timilehin Opesusi, the 19-year-old who died after ingesting rodent poison following a low score of 146 in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), tells our correspondent how his daughter’s death has left the family heartbroken. He recounts the...
•Goodhead David Ibinabo THERESA MOSES, Lagos reporting The Old Students’ Association of Command Day Secondary School, (CDSSJ)— Maxwell Khobe Cantonment, Rukuba Barracks, Jos, Plateau State popularly known as the “Ex-Commandos” Association, has identified with one of their own for his exceptional academic achievement. The student, Goodhead Davi...
•Goodluck Akinlawon receiving his prize A student of the University of Ibadan, Goodluck Akinlawon, has emerged the winner of the 2025 Amnesty International Nigeria Inter-Varsity Debate. Akinlawon triumphed over participants from 15 other universities across Nigeria in a highly competitive finale, reports Saturday PUNCH. A statement yesterday b...
•Tinubu The honeymoon between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal Government may soon be over, as the former has hinted at embarking on yet another long strike to press home its demands over the unresolved 2009 Agreement. This is even as the Union has given its assessment of the Bola Tinubu […]
Twenty suspects have been arrested for hacking the 2025 Computer-based test examinations conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The suspects were nabbed by operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Police Force, in Abuja, reports Channels TV. The suspects are part of a syndicate believed t...
•UNILAG gate The University of Lagos has debunked online reports about the delay of NELFund loans reimbursement to students of the university who paid their obligatory fees prior to the university’s receipt of the loan. The institution’s Head of Communication Unit, Mrs Adejoke Alaga-Ibraheem, debunked the report in a statement yesterday. Alaga...
The Academic Staff Union of Colleges of Agriculture has announced a three-day warning strike in protest against the appointment of a university professor, Prof. Jeremiah Atumgwu, as the Provost of the Federal College of Agriculture, Ibadan, Oyo State. Addressing journalists in Jos, Plateau State, today, ASUCA National President, Williams Mangg...
•Education minister, Dr. Tunji Alausa The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has lamented that 85 per cent of Nigerian students sent abroad on government scholarships never returned to contribute to national development. He also enjoined tertiary institutions nationwide to phase out satellite campuses, describing them as unsustainable and...
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