•Tinubu President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed new members for the governing councils of the University of Abuja, University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN), and Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU), Awka. In February, Tinubu dissolved the governing council of the University of Abuja and sacked the university’s vice chancellor, Aisha Maikudi, amid cont...
•Inspector-General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun The Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun, has launched a Schools Protection Squad in Nasarawa State to strengthen security in educational institutions across the state’s 13 local government areas. Egbetokun, who was represented by AIG Zachariah Achinyan of Zone 4, Makurdi, inaugurated the...
•Professor Florence Obi In a heartfelt celebration of Children’s Day, Professor Florence Obi, the Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), shared inspiring life lessons, childhood memories, and career guidance with students of Florence Obi Academy and UNICAL Demonstration Secondary School. Speaking during an interactive session o...
•Lagos Model College The Lagos State Government has announced the commencement of the 2025 entrance examination for admission into its Model Colleges and upgraded Junior Secondary Schools. The Director of the Lagos State Examinations Board, Orunsolu Adebayo, in a statement today, informed the parents, guardians, and headmasters of primary 6 pu...
•Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife main entrance gate The students of Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife, Osun State, have vowed to boycott the 2025/26 second semester examination over the management’s refusal to issue them identity cards since the commencement of the academic session. The students, in an open letter to the manag...
•UTME candidates For many Nigerian students, the most daunting hurdle on the path to university admission is the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) exam. It’s a name that evokes anxiety, frustration, and, for some, even despair, because for countless students, JAMB has become a roadblock that delays their academic journey for year...
•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...
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