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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Tuesday raised concerns about tertiary institutions awarding fake certificates to persons who did not deserve them. The organisation also accused some of the institutions of conniving with some persons to destroy the education sector. The Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, ... Read more

A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, refused to grant Prof. Dibu Ojerinde, former Registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, bail on alleged fraud preferred against him by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission. Justice Obiora Egwuatu declined the oral application for bail by counsel to the defendant, P.O Olorunishola, SAN, after the ICPC lawyer, ... Read more

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) at the University of Benin, has threatened to embark on indefinite strike once schools reopen from COVID-19 lockdown over unpaid allowances to members of the union. The union noted that after four months they enrolled into the compulsory Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System (IPPIS) introduced by the Federal ... Read more

A student of Electrical Electronics in the College of Engineering, Gregory University Uturu (GUU), in Abia and former winner of an annual NTA Network Programme competition for Junior Scientists Mr Prayer Nwojoyi, has designed and produced a hybrid fuel-less electricity generating machine. student Mr Sleek Ogwo, the university’s Principal Assistant Registrar/Head, Media and Public ... Read more

No fewer than 24 ladies have accused a real estate agent, Godknows Adolphus, of rape. The ladies, in a series of tweets on Tuesday, said Adolphus, also known as Yangy on the social media, took advantage of and defiled them. Yangy was also described as a student of a private university in Ogun State. One of his victims, who sent a direct message to a Twitter activist, Angie, said she was ... Read more

Malian teachers went on strike Tuesday, the first day schools reopened after being closed for two months, over fears of inadequate protection against coronavirus. Details of the number of students affected were unavailable, but seven teachers’ unions are striking, officials said, in a move that will hit public primary and secondary schools, as well as teacher-training colleges. The ... Read more

Four students of Atlantic Hall, Epe, Lagos, have bagged the Cambridge Outstanding Learner Awards. The Atlantic Hall Educational Trust Council said in a statement on Tuesday that the school received “notification from the British Council of the successful recipients of individual student Achievement Awards in respect of Cambridge Assessment International Education (CAIE) IGCSE ... Read more

The Orangun of Oke-Ila Oragun, Osun State, Oba Adedokun Abolarin is redefining qualitative education with the establishment of Abolarin College in the state, for brilliant but needy students, Abolarin shared with Funmi Ogundare his vision of grooming outstanding students. Already, students of the college are winning state and national awards in creativity Twenty-eight students of the Abolarin ... Read more

Organised Labour yesterday demanded immediate suspension of all taxes paid by the workers in the country to save them from degenerating further into abject poverty. The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) said the burden of excessive and multiple taxation has impoverished the average worker in the country. Its General Secretary, Peters Adeyemi, lamented ... Read more

Anambra State Commissioner for Basic Education, Kate Omenugha, has said schools will not reopen until the Federal Government makes its directive clear on the matter. Omenugha, who stated this when he fielded questions from Daily Sun, yesterday, said the state government would not reopen schools as requested by some teachers, and risk the lives of school children to COVID-19. The commissioner, ... Read more