•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...
•Gunmen Unidentified gunmen have abducted a 400-level student of the Federal University Birnin Kebbi (FUBK), Augustine Madubiya, in the early hours of today. A local resident was also shot and killed during the attack, reports Channels TV. The incident occurred around 3:00am at Istijaba Villa, an off-campus hostel located in Unguwar Jeji. Acco...
Senator representing Kwara Central senatorial district in the National Assembly, Saliu Mustapha, hosted 200 beneficiaries of his university scholarship programme to a dinner in Ilorin last night. The event, themed “Securing the Future Today,” featured prominent personalities and community leaders from the district, reports Saturday Tribune. Sp...
•Prof Ishaq Oloyede The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has denied setting cut-off marks for admissions into higher institutions across the country. In a statement posted on its official X account yesterday, the Board dismissed reports that it had set 140 as cut-off marks for universities, and 100 for polytechnics respectively. ...
•Prof Bichi The Vice-Chancellor, Federal University Dutsinma (FUDMA), Katsina State, Prof. Armaya’u Bichi, has alleged that some of the university’s staff are serving as informants to terrorists. Terrorists/bandits have been attacking the area, kidnapping students and staffers of the university as well as their family members, reports NAN. Exa...
•Tinubu The Benin Zone of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has said that salaries of university lecturers have not been reviewed by their employers for the past 15 years when it was last reviewed and the last agreement was signed. Besides, they said that the agreement reached with the federal government in 2022 […]
•Abass, Agbese and Ochefu For Vice Chancellors of public universities in Nigeria, one of the major hurdles they grapple with is having to shuttle between their institutions and the nation’s capital on a weekly or biweekly basis to answer questions from politicians in the National Assembly. This is even as the National Assembly has halted [&hel...
•Prof Ijeoma Uchegbu A Nigerian-born Professor of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience, Ijeoma Uchegbu, who was recently announced as the seventh President of Wolfson College, one of the 31 colleges of the University of Cambridge, on Tuesday morning narrated her academic journey. According to the institution, she is set to assume the role on October 1, ...
A veil of anxiety appears to have been flung over university campuses in Nigeria in the wake of academics leaving the country amid the japa wave. University administrators have been thrown into panic as the number of lecturers available for teaching is fast diminishing, reports Sunday Independent. According to Statista Research Department, as...
The management of Ambrose Alli University (AAU) Ekpoma in Edo State, has reacted to a story in the media yesterday with headline “Varsity compels medical students to sign understanding”. Quoting from a 300-level medical student of the university who expressed his dissatisfation on X that the purported undertaking could extend the d...
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