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The registrar of the National Examination Council NECO, Professor Godswill Obioma, is dead. Unconfirmed reports claim he was murdered in his Minna home by some unidentified gunmen who invaded his apartment and strangled him last night, May 31. The killers allegedly left without taking any of his properties. Another source however claims he was ill and was rushed to a hospital in Abuja where ... Read more

A teacher in Alabama, who was named the 2019 Teacher of the Year, has died by apparent suicide two days after being arrested for having sex with teen students. Leslie Gillespie, 44, was found dead at her Hillsboro home on Saturday morning, May 29, from what authorities said was a self-inflicted gunshot wound. The English teacher, who was a staff member at R.A. Hubbard High School in ... Read more

One Danladi Shu’aib, a 20-year-old student in Kano state reportedly set himself ablaze in Garo town of Kabo Local Government Area of the State, after all his efforts to raise money to pay for his National Examination Council (NECO), exam failed. It was gathered that before taking the drastic move, Shu’aib had written the exams ... Read more

The JAMB has stated that the poor results recorded in the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination are not due to the “wrong syllabus” given to candidates as being circulated. This was made known in a statement by the Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin. He said the questions set for the 2021 UTME are ... Read more

The management of the University of Benin has commended Philip Okafor, a 200-level student of the Department of Microbiology for his exemplary behavior. The student was conferred with the Dean’s special prize which would exempt him from paying school fees throughout his remaining period of undergraduate studies in the faculty. A ... Read more

The Council of Legal Education of the Nigerian Law School has released the examination statistics for the 2021 final bar examinations and, of the 5,770 students who sat for the exams, 1,326 candidates failed the exams. Out of the 5,770 candidates, 20 students representing (0.07%) made first-class while 432 (7.49%) and 2,172 (37.64%) students ... Read more

This is to remind staff and students that University Management hereby reiterates its earlier directives, dated 26 April, 2019, that staff and students should wear their Identification Card with Tag whenever they are on the campus. This is to ensure proper identification of staff and students at all times in view of the current security challenges. Staff and students are therefore enjoined ... Read more

Gov. Aminu Bello-Masari of Katsina state says the State Government has recruited no fewer than 2,500 teachers in the state. Bello-Masari disclosed this when members of the All Progressive Congress (APC) youths paid him a courtesy visit on Wednesday in Katsina. He said the government was gradually converting candidates of the N-POWER programme ... Read more

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned a 21- year-old secondary school dropout, Omesu Christian Chimdu, before Justice Oluwatoyin Taiwo of a Lagos Special Offences Court in Ikeja for allegedly swindling a Korean woman living in the United States of the sum of $350,000 using digital cryptocurrency Bitcoin. Chimdu was ... Read more

Passengers of an 18-seater bus and a Sienna bus conveying students of Naval college of engineering, Sapele have been whisked away by unknown gunmen. The victims were reportedly ambushed and kidnapped while returning from Kaduna State to Sapele, Delta State. The State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Kotongs Bello who confirmed the incident, ... Read more