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By Joseph Erunke ABUJA-THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB, is considering a new date for the commencement of the 2020 admissions processes from the earlier announced date of 22nd August, 2020. Accordingly, the Board will be meeting all the tertiary institutions on Monday, 10th August, 2020, to brainstorm on the possibility of ... Read more

THE Nigerian Academy of Education (NAE), on Sunday, in Abuja, appealed to government at levels to release funds directly to the schools in order to cut off “intermediary taxes”, with a view to enabling them to prepare for and sustain the care of the students who are preparing for exit examinations in the COVID-19 era. In a ... Read more

Strong indications emerged at the weekend that the federal government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) will soon resume negotiations to end the four-month strike by lecturers. THISDAY’s investigations revealed that both sides are making moves to restart discussions that were abandoned following the disagreement over ... Read more

The Lagos State Government, in partnership with a software development company, has concluded plans to empower 1.5 million students in Computer-Based Test, CBT, preparation software in the state following several months’ lockdown of schools occasioned by the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. This happened as the government concluded plans ... Read more

This one that COVID death is killing kings and their horsemen, big men dropping in droves, what do you think will happen if coronavirus stays put till 2023? Will there be elections?” “Why won’t there be elections? Life is for the living. We will hold rallies. We will campaign, we will sing, dance and thoroughly abuse our ... Read more

The University of Ilorin says its Department of Jurisprudence and International Law, recently won the Open Society Initiative for West Africa (OSIWA) $80,000 (approximately N30.3 million) grant. It said that the grant was meant to deepen the study and practise of laws relating to the physically challenged persons in the country. The ... Read more

Sodiq Oyeleke The 2020/2021 post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination screening will commence in Nigeria’s higher institutions on September 7. The agreement was reached at a meeting between the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board and Vice-Chancellors, Rectors, and Provosts of tertiary institutions on Monday. Registrar of JAMB, Prof ... Read more

Related News The (WAEC) has vowed strict observance of the protocols against the spread of coronavirus disease to protect the candidates and its staff during the (WASSCE). The examination body’s head of its Nigeria national office (HNO), Patrick Areghan, said this in an exclusive interview on the phone with PREMIUM TIMES. He said ... Read more

Protesting parents at the gate of the school, Monday.By Elizabeth Osayande Members of Parents Teachers Association, PTA, Grace High School, Gbagada, Lagos, have protested the school’s directives that students, who are preparing for the forthcoming West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, lodge in hotels to meet up with the ... Read more

AS controversy rages between the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities(ASUU) over the controversial Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS), the latter has said it is ready to present an alternative system that would achieve a better result. The President of the union, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi ... Read more