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Over twenty cooks and food vendors engaged by the National Home Grown School Feeding Programme in Niger state have been nabbed by the Department of State Services (DSS) following their involvement in serving pupils poor quality food. It should be recalled that the State House of Assembly had, last week, raised the alarm that pupils in the ... Read more

The Joint Admission Matriculation Board has said the University of Ilorin and University of Lagos, Akoka are the first two institutions who had the highest numbers of being picked as first choice universities in Nigeria. This was recorded in the 2021 policy document made available to The PUNCH and signed by the JAMB’s registrar, ... Read more

The Bayelsa State Government has faulted the ultimatum issued to it by the State Universal Basic Education Board branch of the Non-Academic Staff Union of Primary Schools to embark on strike action over delayed salaries for a few months and the reversal of members’ promotions shortly after implementation in April this year. The ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has handed over 19 year – old Chinedu Ifesinachi John, who sat for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), to the Nigeria Police for investigation on alleged alteration of results. John claimed he scored 380 in the examination conducted in June this year but was ... Read more

The National Youth Service Corps has directed the 2021 Batch B Stream 2 prospective corps members initially posted to Plateau State to reprint their call-up letters, Sunday PUNCH has learnt. This is coming at a time there is apprehension in the state over renewed attacks and killings. The directive was contained in a notice posted on ... Read more

In a LinkedIn post last month, a Nigerian lecturer in Cyprus, Ifeanyi Obi, stated that during his undergraduate studies at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he studied Architecture and Building Technology, he managed to graduate with a second-class lower degree. He stated that in 2018 after dusting off his academic woes in Nigeria, ... Read more

Adamawa State government has announced the closure of 30 boarding junior secondary schools in the state out of the 34 junior schools over insecurity. The closure, according to a statement by the commissioner of education and human development, Mrs. Wilbina Jackson, is to take effect from today till further notice. The statement said the ... Read more

The Ignatius Ajuru University of Education, Port Harcourt, Rivers State, has suspended a student, Newton Nsiegbe, for allegedly selling Indian hemp on campus. Also, the school said Nsiegbe was handed over to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency for further investigation. The Vice Chancellor, Prof. Ozo-Mekuri Ndimele, who disclosed this on ... Read more

The Edo State Government has said schools in the state will resume for the 2021/2022 academic session on Monday, September 6, 2021. In a statement, Permanent Secretary, Edo State Ministry of Education, Mrs. Stella-Maris Imasuen, said parents/guardians are to ensure that all relevant learning materials are provided for their children/wards. She ... Read more

The Federal Government, on Monday in Abuja, declared that stiffer penalties now await tertiary institutions and admissions racketeers, who flagrantly bypass the admission processes and the automated admissions electronic platform, widely known as the Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) developed by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation ... Read more