•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...
•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...

