EDUCATION

  The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has begun to release the results of the ongoing 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) The examination began on Friday and will end on March 17. The spokesperson of the board, Fabian Benjamin, confirmed the development to PREMIUM TIMES on Tuesday. He...

  The apex Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has slammed the Nigerian government for continuing the bad practice of discriminatory cut-off points into federal government-owned schools in Nigeria. In a statement yesterday by its spokesman, Uche Achi-Okpaga, the group alleged that under the guise of educationally disadvantaged areas, some states...

  The Governor of Bayelsa State, Henry Seriake Dickson, on Saturday called on governments at all levels to commit more attention to the promotion of education in the country. Dickson said that education remains the only route to sustainable stability and development in Nigeria. According to him, the most important...

  The National Common Entrance Examination Board has published the entrance exam cut-off mark of each state of the federation for the 2017/18 session. The cut-off is for entrance into federal government colleges across the country. Below is the NCEE cut-off marks of each state in the federation. Male    Female...

The Federal Government of Nigerian has appointed former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC), Prof. Peter Okebukola; and ex-Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Attahiru Jega, among those to review the country’s university system. Executive Secretary, NUC, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, made this known in an interview with...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has fixed March 9 to 17 for the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The Registrar of the board, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said this at a meeting with stakeholders on Tuesday. The theme of the meeting is “Strategic planning on the conduct of...

  Nigerian universities can rank best in Africa, if we can have a stable academic calendar, Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, the Vice-Chancellor, University of Lagos, has said. Ogundipe spoke with newsmen on Thursday in Lagos against the backdrop of incessant strikes by labour unions in the nation’s university system. According to...

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Boar (JAMB) has warned telecommunication companies against arbitrarily charging its Universal Tertiary Matriculation Examination on short service message, sms charges. The board said even as it was aware of the nation’s network challenges, telecom companies should not expect the candidates to pay for their...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has accredited 72 centres in Lagos State ahead of the 2018 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The State Coordinator, Mr. Sunday Aladegbaye, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos, that 63 centres were accredited for the examination this year....

  The Federal Executive Council (FEC) in its meeting chaired by the Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, said on Wednesday that the Federal Government has approved the take off of six new private universities. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who briefed State...