•YABATECH main entrance gate A bill which seeks to convert the Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) to university today scaled second reading in Senate. The Bill titled: “A Bill for an Act to provide for the Establishment of the Yaba Federal University of Technology and Vocational Studies Yaba, Lagos State and to make comprehensive provisions...
The Senior Staff Union in Colleges of Education, Nigeria (SSUCOEN) has decried how government pays less attention to teacher education, which, according to it, is the bedrock of every country’s development. The union said no nation could progress without education, lamenting that less attention was being paid to teacher education across the co...
•LASUSTECH No fewer than 50 lecturers across Nigerian public tertiary institutions have been indicted for sexual misconduct between April 2021 and April 2025, it has been found. While some of the indicted academics, including professors, have been dismissed, others are currently facing disciplinary panels, reports The PUNCH. The cases span uni...
•Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria The management of Maryam Abacha American University of Nigeria has ordered the immediate closure of Al-Ansar Indabo female students’ hostels located at Hotoro and UDB Road in the Kano metropolis over safety and disciplinary concerns. This was disclosed in a statement issued yesterday by the univers...
•JAMB candidates The dust raised recently over the poor performance of candidates in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) may take much longer to abate, as 1,534,654 candidates who scored below 200 have petitioned Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), asking for a review of the process or face legal action. In the p...
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has made a startling disclosure about a polytechnic in the Southeast region, which receives billions of naira in annual intervention funds despite having a remarkably small student population of only 30. Executive Secretary of the Fund, Sonny Echono, stated this today in Abuja at the 2025 one-day str...
•UTME examination candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has ordered an immediate review of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) following a wave of public complaints alleging technical glitches, incomplete questions, and unusually low scores. The Board, in a statement issued by its Public Communic...
•Newly elected ASUU president, Prof Chris Piwuna A Professor of Medicine and Consultant Psychiatrist, Chris Piwuna, has been elected as the national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). He takes over from Emmanuel Osodeke, a Professor of Agriculture at the University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, who was elected...
•JAMB candidates Data obtained from the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has revealed that Anambra and Lagos states have the majority among the 80 suspects being interrogated by the police for their involvement in 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination malpractices. The JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, during a press brief...
•UTME candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that 4,756 out of 1,955,069 candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination scored 320 and above. This, it said, represents 0.24 per cent. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, stated this at a press conference today in Abuja while offic...
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