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A 200-level student of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko, in Ondo State, AAUA, Feranmi Omowumi Fasunle has committed suicide. The deceased, a student of Political Science in the institution was said to have drunk an insecticide popularly known as sniper on Wednesday night in her room before she died on Thursday. Though actual ... Read more

Barring last minute change, the will announce the extension of the deadline for the ongoing registration for its 2021 unified tertiary matriculation examination (UTME) and the direct entry (DE) programme. This decision may not be unconnected to the difficulties being experienced by candidates in their attempts to generate the required codes ... Read more

The registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, Prof. Is’aq Oloyede, has said that the board will decide if there is a need to extend the registration period and change the date of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Oloyede made this known today, at a zoom meeting titled, ‘Briefing session for the ... Read more

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria has partnered the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation to train 28,000 teachers in Nigeria, its Registrar and Chief Executive, Prof. Josiah Ajiboye, has said. He added that the teaching profession was no longer an all-comers affair because “a new sheriff is in ... Read more

The Ambrose Alli University (AAU), Ekpoma, Edo State Chapter of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has raised an alarm of a plot by the state government to impose a sole administrator on the institution. In a joint statement yesterday in Ekpoma by Dr Monday Igbafen and Dr Anthony Coker-Aizebioje, Chairperson and Secretary ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has extended the deadline for the ongoing 2021 UTME/DE registration exercise by two weeks. The exam body took the decision after a meeting with stakeholders following reports of widespread delay in the registration process among candidates for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, who announced the ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has extended the deadline for the ongoing 2021 UTME/DE registration exercise by two weeks. The exam body took the decision after a meeting with stakeholders following reports of widespread delay in the registration process among candidates for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, who announced the ... Read more

Kano State government directed on Sunday that pupils and students should return to school on Monday, May 17 since the Eid el-Fitri holiday is over. The directive did not cover the 36 boarding schools government ordered closed early in the year on security grounds. Commissioner for ... Read more

The Student Christian Movement of Nigeria (SCM) has called on international bodies to help Nigeria avert greater cataclysm which might ensue if insecurity in the country persists. The newly-elected National President of SCM, Mrs Ebere Ubesie, made the call at a press conference held in Ibadan on the spate of kidnappings and abductions in ... Read more

A Kwara-based civic group advocating for accountability and transparency in governance, Elites Network for Sustainable Development (), has accused the state government of inflating the cost of renovating Government High School, Ilorin by over N40.5 million. The group, In a letter signed by its coordinator, Lateef Alagbonsi, alerted Governor ... Read more