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Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, has urged the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board to stop giving “preferential scores” to students in Northern Nigeria who sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. He stated this on Monday as a guest on Channels Television’s ‘Sunrise Daily’ breakfast programme ... Read more

Caleb University, Imota, Lagos has been given the 2021 International Outstanding University with quality education and moral standards award. A statement signed by deputy director, public relations, and marketing, Dr. Elvis Otobo said the award was presented to the institution at the World Education and Technology Summit, 2021 in Abuja by ... Read more

The Joint Admission Matriculation Board has said the goal of Central Admission Processing System was achieved in the 2021 admission process. This was stated in the 2021 policy document made available to The PUNCH and signed by JAMB registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede. It said CAPS was being used as vehicle for all admissions since its ... Read more

All public and private schools in Lagos will resume for the 2021/2022 academic session on Monday, September 13. This announcement was made on Monday evening by the state’s Commissioner for Education, Folasade Adefisayo, in a statement signed by an assistant director, public affairs of the ministry, Ganiu Lawal. The commissioner said the ... Read more

NIGER State House of Assembly has expressed worry over the exorbitant prices charged by some private schools in the state for examinations organised by the West African Examination Council and the National examination Council. This was brought to the floor of the House during the plenary on Tuesday where they accused the schools of ... Read more

The management of the Umaru Musa Yar’Adua University, Katsina, on Tuesday, said it fumigated its main campus to ward off snakes and reptiles that may be harmful to students and other members of the institution’s community. Over the weekend, a video clip showing a live python being captured in the Sabbatical Quarters of the ... Read more

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said it does not award “preferential cut-off marks” to students who sit the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination from the northern part of the country. The board also said the Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, was wrong in saying that UTME candidates of northern extraction ... Read more

The Oyo State government has released the school calendar for the 2021/2022 academic session. The calendar will serve the private and public primary and secondary schools in the state. The announcement was contained in a statement signed by Mrs Amina Bamidele Atere, Permanent Secretary, Oyo State Ministry of Education Science and ... Read more

By Okon Bassey in Uyo Various state governments that have been establishing universities have been charged to back it up with the necessary legislations. The Chairman of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Calabar Zone, Dr. Aniekan Brown, gave the advice while addressing journalists in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, yesterday. The Union, he ... Read more

Batch B Stream II Corps members deployed to Osun State have been charged to play an effective part in national integration even as they serve their country in the compulsory one-year youth service corp. This charge was given by the Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Shuaibu Ibrahim during the swearing-in ceremony of the Corpers held at the NYSC ... Read more