•Candidates Parents and candidates sitting for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) say they are facing multiple challenges at various centres since the commencement of the exercise on Monday, February 3. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) had earlier shifted the registration from Jan.31 to allow it to im...
•Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has approved a one-year moratorium on new applications for polytechnics and monotechnics. He, however, exempted health institutions due to low enrollment challenges, reports NAN. This was contained in a statement by the Executive Secretary of the National Board fo...
•Teachers strike The joint union of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and the Nigeria Union of Local Government Employees (NULGE) has directed both primary school teachers under the Local Education Authority (LEA) and the area councils’ staff across the six area councils to, today, Thursday, 13, February, 2025, resume its suspended strike ov...
•Screenshots from the viral video A lecturer in Theatre Arts and Film Studies at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Dr Chukwudi Okoye, has explained the circumstances that led to him being physically assaulted by a female student, identified as Goddy Mbakwe Precious, a third-year History and International Studies student. The incident, which took ...
•Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH) Clinical lecturers at Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, have begun an indefinite strike over the non-payment of their salaries under the Consolidated Medical Salary Structure (CONMESS). In a statement signed by the Chairman, Dr. Ruth Ilori, and Secretary, Dr. Abraham Akinbola, t...
Edo State Government has ordered the immediate closure of all satellite campuses of Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma. In a statement dated February 11, 2025, and signed by the Secretary to the State Government, Umar Ikhilor, the government directed that all academic programmes and courses must now be conducted exclusively at the universit...
The authorities of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University (UNIZIK), Awka, Anambra State, have commenced an investigation into a scuffle involving a lecturer in the Department of Theatre Arts of the institution and a student over a filmed social media content. A spokesman of the school, Njelita Louis, said the management of the institution led by the [&...
The federal government has raised the fees for purchasing and processing of application forms for new private universities to N30 million. The amount, according to the National Universities Commission, NUC, include a N5 million for application form and a N25 million as processing fee, respectively. The NUC, in a statement to this effect today,...
•JAMB Registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has blacklisted six CBT officials for allegedly engaging in blank registration in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination registration. JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this today while speaking with journalists after monitoring some CBT cent...
•Youth Corps members A professor of Crop Sciences at the Federal University of Agriculture, Ogun State, Philip Adetiloye, has called for the abolition of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme, citing poor remuneration and the dehumanization of graduates participating in the program. Professor Adetiloye made this statement today in Ado...
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