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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has cancelled the national cut-off mark. The body said it would now be left for Nigeria’s tertiary institutions to determine its admission benchmark. This decision was made on Tuesday at the 2021 policy meeting presided over by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu. The ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will meet today with heads of tertiary institutions, to decide the fate of over 1.4 million candidates who wrote the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Vice chancellors, provosts and rectors from public and private universities, polytechnics and colleges of education are also expected to attend the virtual admission ... Read more

Two research Teams from Lagos State University led by a former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Prof. Adeniyi Harrison and the current Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Prof. Omobitan Olufunso respectively, have won the 2020 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND) National Research Fund to the tune of N66.8 million. Prof. Harrison-led research project ... Read more

About 52 teachers in the employment of the Bauchi State government have decried non-payment of their salaries, in some instances up to 59 months, by the state government. The teachers, who gathered under the aegis of Teachers’ Rights, on Tuesday, submitted a letter to the state Ministry of Education, demanding payment of their ... Read more

The Ambubag based Medical Ventilator invented by the University of Lagos was among outstanding innovations which won the Lagos State Government the second position at a Science Technology Research and Innovation Expo. The Expo which was held between Monday, March 15 and Friday, March 19, 2021, at the Federal Capital Territory was organised ... Read more

THE National President, Nigeria Civil Service Union, Chief Lawrence Amaechi, has threatened that Nigerian workers may embark on sympathy strike with university teachers if the Federal Government, through its attitude, should allow them to embark on another industrial action. Amaechi, who is National Vice President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, ... Read more

The Presidency on Tuesday said the Federal Government was not the cause of most of the problems associated with the education sector in Nigeria, adding that it was the responsibility of state governments. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN), made the clarification in Abuja on Tuesday while declaring open a two-day national dialogue on girls ... Read more

As the ultimatum from the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to the Federal Government expires, the union has said its National Executive Council (NEC) would reassemble to weigh available options and consider its next options. ASUU had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in December 2020, after the government promised to meet ... Read more

Last Sunday the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) once again signalled a fresh ultimatum to government on the possibility of them once again embarking on another indefinite nation-wide strike Ostensibly this is due to the inability of the Federal Government to honour the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) entered into with ASUU and ... Read more

THE Academic Staff Union of Universities has said its members are still consulting on the next line of action as the ultimatum it gave the Federal Government to meet their demands expired in the early hours of Wednesday. The PUNCH had on Monday reported exclusively ASUU’s readiness to embark on another round of industrial action ... Read more