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The Nigeria Center for Disease Control (NCDC), has asked schools across the country to disallow students and teachers with high temperatures into classrooms as fears of the Omicron variant of Coronavirus intensify. The directives which were contained in a statement issued by the NCDC on Tuesday, January 11, 2022, called on school management to conduct daily temperature checks and anyone with ... Read more

Due to the high incidence of COVID-19 cases in the country, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has warned school operators not to allow teachers and students with high temperatures into schools. In its latest COVID-19 situation report, the agency said the Omicron variant is very likely to spread at a faster rate and has ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has raised concern over the slow pace of admission processes across Nigeria’s tertiary institutions for the candidates who sat the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The examination body in its latest weekly bulletin said only about 100,000 out of about 600,000 eligible candidates have been offered admission by the ... Read more

A total of 238 graduands among 12,217 that will be taking part in the 52nd convocation ceremonies of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Akoka, will bag First Class in various degree programmes. Also, 36 others will graduate from the faculties of Pharmacy, Basic Medical Sciences, and Clinical Sciences with distinctions. This was disclosed on Tuesday at a pre-convocation press conference ... Read more

The National Universities Commission has said universities should be isolated from the Federal Government’s circular on new employment owing to the shortage of lecturers. The commission also stated that 100,000 academic staff members were attending to 2.1 million students in Nigerian universities. The NUC disclosed this in its latest ... Read more

The management of the University of Ilorin has approved the promotion of 685 senior staff members of the University cutting across the academic and non-teaching cadres. The result of the promotion exercise was contained in the Unilorin Bulletin put in circulation on Sunday by the Directorate of Corporate Affairs of the University. The ... Read more

THE Teachers’ Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has said that two years deadline, more than 50 per cent of teachers currently in private primary and secondary schools nationwide are still not qualified to be in the classroom teaching. The registrar and chief executive of TRCN, Professor Josiah Ajiboye, gave this hint in an ... Read more

The polytechnic lecturers in the country have expressed disappointment on both federal and state governments for leaving them on the salary structures they had been since 12 years ago, saying they were fed up with the situation. They also accused both levels of government of consistently paying lip service to the education sector from ... Read more

The Federal Government will today inaugurate a 1,050-bed space hostel at the University of Uyo in Akwa Ibom to address lack of adequate accommodation in the school. Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Sen. Godswill Akpabio, who announced during an interaction with newsmen in Abuja, said that out of the number, 50 would be for people living ... Read more

Recently, some West African Examination Council and National Examination Council examiners lamented on a social media page the poor remuneration they received from the councils after marking 250 scripts at N14.00 per script. More worrisome according to them, is that they have been receiving the meagre amount for over a decade without ... Read more