•Gunmen Gunmen believed to be kidnappers attacked a commercial vehicle belonging to Benue Links, the state-owned transport company. About 17 candidates travelling to Otukpo for their examination centres in the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) are feared to have been abducted, although the exact number of victims remain...
•Soldiers and Bida Polytechnic main gate The crisis rocking the Federal Polytechnic, Bida, Niger State, escalated yesterday as soldiers were deployed to examination halls following threats by the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP). The union had on September 15 declared an indefinite strike over 18 months of unpaid excess workload all...
•The collapsed classrooms Hundreds of students escaped by whiskers, others severely injured, when the classrooms in which they were sitting for the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination (SSCE) caved in. The incident happened at Government Secondary School, Namne, Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State, reports Daily Trust. The ...
•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...
•JAMB candidates Lecturers under the aegis of The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN) branch, have threatened to sue the Joint Matriculation Board (JAMB) over massive failure recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam (UTME). The Chairman of ASUU-UNN, Comrade Óyibo Eze, made the disclos...
The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has said that approximately 1.8 million candidates are expected to take the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates, which is scheduled to begin tomorrow, Tuesday, April 30 and end on Monday, June 24, 2024. A statement by Head of Nigeria National Office, Dr ...
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has re-scheduled the 2024 National Common Entrance Examination into Federal Unity Colleges and the Entrance Examination into Federal Government Academy, Suleja, The Council in a statement by Azeez Sani, Acting Director, Directorate of lnformation and Digital Communication, said the rescheduling of the t...
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