•Students The Federal Ministry of Education has banned the admission and transfer of students into Senior Secondary School Three (SS3) in all public and private secondary schools nationwide. “Admission or transfer into SS3 will no longer be permitted under any circumstance,” the ministry said in a statement issued today by its Director, Press ...
•JAMB candidates The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cleared 85 underage candidates who participated in a special screening after scoring high marks in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for admission. The board announced the release of the results today in a statement by its Public Communication Adv...
•Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa Nigerian senior secondary school students in arts and humanities will no longer be required to present a credit in mathematics in their Senior School Certificate Examination, organised by the West African Examination Council and National Examination Council, as a condition for admission to univers...
The University of Benin (UNIBEN) has released the results of its Post-UTME and Direct Entry screening exercises. Candidates can now view their performance on the university’s online portal. In a statement issued in Benin City yesterday, the institution’s spokesperson, Dr. Benedicta Ehanire, advised candidates to ignore the “NOT ADMITTED” messa...
•Nurses on strike The Adeoyo Hospital in Ibadan has discharged patients who were admitted following the nationwide strike embarked on by the National Association of Nigeria Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), which began today. The association has directed its members to commence a seven-day warning strike due to the federal government’s failure to r...
•Tertiary institution students The federal government has formally set 16 years as the minimum age for admission into Nigeria’s tertiary institutions. Minister of Education Dr. Tunji Alausa announced this during the opening session of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) 2025 Policy Meeting today in Abuja, reports The Nation. ”T...
•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...
•Chidoka, Sowore and Adeyanju Reactions have begun pouring in after the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) admitted today that system errors were responsible for the mass failure experienced during the recently held Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB registrar, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, said candidates from the Sout...
•Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa The newly sworn-in Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, has abolished the 18-year admission benchmark for tertiary institutions in the country. He also hinted at the possibility of reviewing the nation’s education policy, reports The PUNCH. However, the minister stated that there would be no reversa...
•JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyode The Delta State High Court in Warri has issued an order restraining the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board from implementing its recent policy requiring a minimum admissible age of 16 years for university admissions in the country pending the hearing and determination of the motion on notice filed aga...
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