•NUC headquarters The federal government has granted licence for the establishment of Benue State University of Agriculture, Science and Technology (BSUAST), Ihugu, as a new State University in Nigeria. This brings the number of state universities to 68 and 299 federal universities in the country, reports Daily Trust. The Executive Secretary o...
•UTME candidates and Ohanaeze logo The youth wing of the apex Igbo socio-cultural organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo Youth Council Worldwide, today, rejected the decision by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) to schedule a fresh examination for candidates affected by what it termed “errors” in the recently released Unified Tertiary...
•UTME candidates Some of the candidates who wrote the 2025 University Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have called for total cancelation of the results. They spoke to our correspondent yesterday in their reactions to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s admittance to errors that affected candidates’ performance in the...
•Peter Obi Labour Party national leader, Peter Obi, has reacted to the recent technical glitches that affected the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) results, impacting 379,997 candidates. Though he commended JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, for his open admission of fault and expression of remorse, but noted that the incide...
•Minister of Education, Dr Morufu Olatunji Alausa As part of ongoing reforms in the education sector, the federal government has announced the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI), in curriculum delivery, stressing that it is committed to delivering inclusive, future-ready education. In the same vein, the Minister of Education, Dr Moruf...
•Chidoka, Sowore and Adeyanju Reactions have begun pouring in after the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) admitted today that system errors were responsible for the mass failure experienced during the recently held Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, said candidates from the Sout...
•JAMB candidates Lecturers under the aegis of The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) branch, have threatened to sue the Joint Matriculation Board (JAMB) over massive failure recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME). The Chairman of ASUU-UNN, Comrade Óyibo Eze, made the disclos...
•JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, today, broke into tears as he apologised for the errors in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. “I apologise for the trauma caused the candidates,” Oloyede said tearfully during a press conference in Abuja. Re...
•UTME candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board will tomorrow review the results of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination following what it described as “unusual” public complaints. A notice seen by our correspondent in Abuja confirmed that the review meeting would bring together vice-chancellors, provosts, rectors,...
Southsouth and Southeast students have given reasons for their low participation in the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND). Some of the students told our reporters that they had passive knowledge of the scheme; others were uninterested in it, reports The Nation. While those with a passive idea blamed poor sensitisation by relevant authorit...
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