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The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is’haq Oloyede, has ordered all CBT Centres across the country not to allow parents/guardians into the registration hall again. A statement signed by JAMB Spokesman in Ilorin Office, Hassan Lawal, quoted Oloyede as saying that the decision was made after inspecting ... Read more

Authorities of the Adeyemi College of Education in Ondo, in Ondo State, have banned the students from driving cars and riding power bikes on campus. The Registrar of the college, Mrs Olufisayo Fakorede, in a circular dated April 15, said the ban was necessary to safeguard the lives of students and staff from those who drove ... Read more

The University of Ibadan has released the results of its Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) screening exercise for candidates who chose the institution. This is contained in a statement by the institution’s Director of Public Communications, Mr Olatunji Oladejo, in Ibadan on Saturday. Oladejo stated that the Registrar, ... Read more

The Indian Council for Cultural Relations (ICCR), New Delhi, is inviting applications from Nigerians and other international students for scholarships, the Federal Ministry of Education has said. A statement from the Federal Scholarship Board Management explained that the scholarship is meant for students seeking to pursue higher studies at the undergraduate, post-graduate, and doctoral levels ... Read more

Lagos State authorities have found the female students of Oreyo Senior Grammar School, Igbogbo in Ikorodu, seen smoking shisha in a video. The five students were smoking in an apartment while dressed in school uniform. The footage went viral last weekend. The state government, through the Ministry of Education and Ministry of Youth and ... Read more

THE University of Abuja has pointedly told the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, that it lacked constitutional powers to meddle in admissions into universities. It also refuted last week’s allegations by the nation’s tertiary institutions’ examination’s body that it was engaging in “Illegal admissions”, ... Read more

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), has condemned the ‘Step Aside’ order given to the vice chancellor of the institution by the Oyo State Government. The union in a release jointly signed by its Chairperson, ... Read more

The Yaba College of Technology (YabaTech) has released the cut-off marks for placement of candidates for its full-time National Diploma (ND) programme for the 2020/2021 academic session. Mr Joe Ejiofor, the Deputy Registrar of the college, disclosed this in an interview with the News ... Read more

A student of Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife Adedeji Emmanuel was reported dead after consuming a substance suspected to be sniper. It was gathered the body of Emmanuel, a 200-level student of Accounting and Management, was found around spider house, which housed Mechanical Engineering Department. A student confided in the medium that the ... Read more

The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, has assured that approvals for research grants would be doubled in 2021. TETFund Executive Secretary, Prof Suleiman Bogoro, said the approvals would be increased from over 128 made in 2020. Bogoro said the approvals would be made public once the Board of Trustees gives its nod. He disclosed this ... Read more