•Minister of State for Education, Dr. Yusuf Sununu No fewer than 13 candidates scored 01 as the National Examination Council released the 2024 common entrance examination results for Unity schools. The Minister of State for Education, Dr. Yusuf Sununu made this known during a press briefing today about the outcome of the examinations. Recall t...
Universities in the country are groaning under the yoke of high tariffs thrust on them by electricity distribution companies, DISCOs, which may see the 10 with the highest budgets spending over N75 billion on electricity this year. The 10 universities have a combined budget of N247.6 billion for 2024, reports Vanguard. Checks by our correspond...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it has successfully conducted the foreign component of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in eight foreign countries. According to the Board, the examinations, which were held on Saturday, July 13, was designed for foreign candidates seeking admission to Nigerian t...
•Executive Secretary, NBTE, Prof. Idris Bugaje The National Board for Technical Education clarified today that the new schemes of service approved by the federal government are meant for federal polytechnics and not state-owned polytechnics. The Executive Secretary of the NBTE, Prof. Idris Bugaje, clarified this at a press conference held at t...
Analysis of data on the admissions conducted for the 2022/2023 admission session in Nigerian universities, polytechnics and other tertiary institutions of learning revealed that 88 institutions conducted admissions outside of the Central Admissions Processing System popularly referred to as CAPS. According to JAMB, admissions conducted outside...
•Site of the school building collapse A total of 22 victims lost their lives while 132 sustained injuries in the collapsed school building in Jos, Plateau State capital, yesterday morning. Saints Academy, a secondary school in Jos, collapsed while students were writing their third term examination. In a statement, the state Commissioner for In...
•The collapsed school building The Plateau State Government is pleading with citizens of the state to come to Plateau Specialists Hospital to donate blood to safe lives of pupils rescued from collapsed school building in Jos. State Commissioner for Information and Communication, Hon Musa Ashom, made the appeal in a statement in Jos yesterday e...
•Governor Alia The Benue State Bureau for Education Quality Assurance (BEQA) in collaboration with the Benue State Urban Development Board has vowed to demolish all substandard schools by the end of the 2023/2024 academic session. Dr. Terna Francis made the disclosure when he led a delegation to the Urban Development Board. He stressed BEQA’s ...
•Governor Seyi Makinde No fewer than 52,423 candidates have applied for positions in the public primary school teaching offers by the Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board (Oyo SUBEB). The board on May 17, 2024 announced plans to recruit 7,000 teachers for public primary schools and 100 caregivers for special schools across the state, repo...
•FEC meeting The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has directed that the university system be removed with immediate effect from the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) platform. Recall that the federal government had previously approved the initiative. The new directive was part of the resolutions reached at the council ...

