•FCT minister, Nyesom Wike The woeful performance of the FCT-owned public schools and orphanage pupils in Abuja in a recent Spelling Bee competition has prompted calls for the raising of education standards in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). Project Hope Spelling Bee Season 5 put together by Paraclete Hope Foundation, in collaboration wit...
The National Association of Academic Technologists (NAAT) has joined the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) and Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) to reject the sharing formula adopted by the Federal Ministry of Education and the National Universities Commission (NUC) for the N50 b...
•UTME candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced a fresh round of mop-up examinations for candidates who missed the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, made the announcement today during a stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja, reports Nigerian Tribune. He ...
•JAMB candidates A member of the House of Representatives, Iduma Igariwey, has called for the cancellation of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), citing what he described as a “catastrophic institutional failure” that has compromised the integrity and fairness of the process. Speaking on Channels TV last night, Igariwey...
•House of Representatives The House of Representatives Committee on Basic Education and Examination Bodies has apologised to Nigerians over the recent human error that marred the conduct of the April/May 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organized by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). Addressing journalis...
The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC), Dr. Musa Adamu Aliyu, today revealed that the commission has discovered an account opened by a foreigner to receive payments from Nigerians seeking a six-week degree abroad. The ICPC boss made this disclosure in Abuja during a stakeholders’ advocacy...
•JAMB candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced that it will tomorrow, Wednesday release the results of 379,000 candidates who sat the rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination between Friday and yesterday. JAMB rescheduled the exam following widespread outcry over mass failure during the initial UTME, ...
•Being Editorial of Nigerian Tribune At the 2025 one-day strategic interactive workshops for heads of institutions, bursars and heads of procurement of the Tertiary Education Tax Fund’s (TETFund) beneficiary institutions in Abuja recently, the Executive Secretary of the Fund, Sonny Echono, made a starling disclosure that smacks of monumental ...
•JAMB Registrar Prof Ishaq Oloyede The South East Caucus in the House of Representatives has demanded the resignation of the Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, over what it described as a “catastrophic institutional failure” in the conduct of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinatio...
The National Universities Commission (NUC) has granted full accreditation to nine academic programmes, including Nursing, at Ajayi Crowther University (ACU), Oyo. The accredited courses span five faculties and include Environmental Health Science, Christian Religious Studies, History and International Studies, Music, Performing Arts, Law, Math...

