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The National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB) has released the results for the 2020 Ordinary and Advanced level examinations. A total of 25,844 candidates scored five credits and above with or without English Language and Mathematics, out of the 32,541 that sat for the exam. This was confirmed by NABTEB’s ... Read more

Two ex-students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok in Borno state, Joy Bishara and Lydia Pogu, who escaped from Boko Haram militants in 2014, have graduated from Southeastern University in the United States. Bishara and Pogu were among the 276 girls first kidnapped by the insurgent group on April 14, 2014. The duo managed to escape captivity by jumping off the truck while they ... Read more

FORMER Communications Minister, Maj. Gen. Tajudeen Olanrewaju (retd), yesterday, urged Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State to ensure a Lagosian emerges Vice-Chancellor of the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo. In a statement, Olanrewaju, who is a Trustee of Ọmọ Eko Pataki, vowed to resist an imposition of ... Read more

Mr Anderson Ezeibe is the National President, Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics. In this interview with GRACE EDEMA, he talks about the union’s demands, which led to the ongoing strike and the position of the law on the appointment of rectors of polytechnics On April 6, 2021, ASUP decided to commence a nationwide strike action due ... Read more

Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and Non Academic Staff Union (NASU) of the Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma in Edo State yesterday protested against the nonpayment of their accumulated salaries, amid deployment of security ‎agents to maintain peace at the university. Members of the two unions ... Read more

No fewer than 115 inmates in Enugu recorded credit passes in English Language and Mathematics in the last National Examination Council (NECO)-organised Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE) (External). Mr Monday Chukwuemeka, Public Relations Officer of Nigerian Correctional ... Read more

Niger State Governor, Abubakar Sani Bello, has said that the establishment of a private university, Edusoko University, Bida will help in solving admission challenges in the state. Governor Sani Bello stated this while receiving the chairman, Board of Trustees, Edusoko University, the Etsu Nupe, Alhaji Yahaya Abubakar and his entourage on a ... Read more

A group of professors and some other workers in the Lagos State University (LASU), Ojo, have again expressed displeasure over the turn of events in the appointment of a new substantive vice chancellor for the university. They said the Lagos State government should know that the whole world is watching and awaiting final decision on the ... Read more

The year 2020 would be remembered for a long time for the disruptive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on all areas of human life. KOFOWOROLA BELO-OSAGIE reports on how an intervention helped 37 technical colleges across 20 states achieve excellent results in the NABTEB examinations. The 2019/2020 academic session was severely impacted by ... Read more

Federal Government’s Visitation Panel to the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) has called on the institution’s community to submit their memoranda and be actively involved in the assessment of the university for its overall development. They have until May 18, 2021 to submit their memoranda to the panel. In a statement signed by ... Read more