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Federal Government has suspended the proposed review of registration fees for the 2027 West African Senior School Certificate Examination and the National Examinations Council Senior School Certificate Examination, pending wider consultations with stakeholders. In a statement made available to Newsmen on Monday, the Federal Ministry of Education Dr Alausa said the letter conveying the proposed…
Federal Government ,has announced plans to phase out the policy separating Junior Secondary Schools (JSS) from Senior Secondary Schools (SSS) after data revealed that more than 20 million pupils drop out before reaching the senior secondary level.Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, disclosed this on Tuesday in Abuja during the inauguration of the Universal Basic…
University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT) will award first-class degrees to 120 students during its 36th Combined Convocation Ceremony, with a total of 8,156 graduates set to receive various academic qualifications, Vice-Chancellor Prof. Owunari Georgewill has announced. I’m a statement in Port Harcourt on Monday, Georgewill disclosed that the graduating class comprises 5,822 first-degree recipients, 510…
Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has ordered all public primary and secondary school teachers in Oyo State to withdraw their services indefinitely beginning Monday, June 1, until abducted teachers and students regain their freedom.The decision follows the May 15 abduction of 39 students and seven teachers by gunmen who attacked Baptist Nursery and Primary School,…
Godfrey Okoye University, Enugu , Thursday honoured students of the Faculty of Law for emerging victorious in a National Universities Commission – National Youth Service Corps debate championship, with the Vice Chancellor, Rev Fr Prof. Christian Anieke, describing the achievement as another proof of the university’s culture of excellence. Addressing students, lecturers and guests during…
Enugu State Government, in partnership with the Haier Factory Enugu, on Tuesday, commenced the Enugu State-Haier Joint School-Enterprise Cooperation Training Programme (J-SECT) aimed at equipping senior secondary school students with practical technical and industrial skills to be self reliant.. The Commissioner for Education, Prof. Ndubueze Mbah flagged – off the programme at the Haier factory…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has retained 150 as the minimum cut-off mark for admission into Nigerian universities for the 2026/2027 academic session, maintaining the benchmark adopted last year despite widespread criticism from stakeholders who argued that the score was too low. The decision was announced on Monday during JAMB’s annual policy meeting…
Nigerian government has announced a major policy shift in her tertiary education admission, scrapping writing of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. for admission into the Nigeria Certificate of Education programme ( NCE) and the National Diploma programme in Agriculture. Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, disclosed that during the ongoing 2026 policy meeting organised by…
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board JAMB, has described as fake a widely circulated result slip claiming that a candidate from Cross River State scored 394 in the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination.In a statement issued on Sunday by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, JAMB described the result as a fabrication and urged Nigerians to disregard it.The…
Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of candidates who sat for the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Friday, April 17 and Saturday, April 18, respectively.In a statement issued on Sunday by its spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, the board disclosed that a total of 1,264,940 results from the two days have been…