EDUCATION

Maintains fee at N5,000 The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said on Wednesday that the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in 2018 would hold on March 9 to March 17, 2018. The JAMB Registrar, Prof Is-haq Oloyede, announced this during an ongoing stakeholders’ meeting, saying that the dates were...

Registration for 2019 begins later this month The Registrar of Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has assured that the conduct of the 2019 examination will be better. He also announced that registration for the exams would commence before the end of November, urging prospective candidates to...

The National Universities Commission (NUC) has said that only 30 per cent out of the 1.7 million candidates who wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will be admitted this year. The Executive Secretary of the commission, Prof. Abubakar Rasheed, said this at a one-day public hearing on the regulatory...

The Nigerian Senate has urged the federal and state governments to declare a state of emergency in the education sector. The Senate made this call on Tuesday after deliberating on a motion tagged “The Falling Standard of Education in Nigeria.” The lawmakers noted that the prescribed standards for primary, secondary...

• As Senate considers scrapping of Post-UTME exams The House of Representatives has mandated its Committee on Tertiary Education and Services to investigate the circumstances surrounding the reduction of cut-off marks for admitting candidates into tertiary institutions. This followed a motion by Hassan Saleh (Benue-APC) on the “Need to Investigate...

Going forward, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that it would demand for the records of Ordinary and Advanced Level results of candidates recommended by tertiary institutions before offering them admission. JAMB boss, Prof Ishaq Oloyede disclosed this during the meeting on admissions exercise/processes for Innovative Enterprise...

The two-week strike action embarked by upon by the non-teaching staff of Nigerian Universities under the auspices of the Joint Action Committee has been suspended. The three non-teaching staff bodies of Nigerian universities began an indefinite strike action on Monday, September 11 as a result of government failure to meet...

A 17-year old student of Unique Heights Secondary School, Omole Estate, Lagos, Joseph Lambo, who scored A1 in the nine subjects he wrote in the just released Senior School Certificate Examination, (SSCE) has attributed his success to hard work and God. Lambo who was named after his late grandfather, Dr...

The Governing Council of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, has approved resumption of activities on the Institution’s campuses with effect from Friday September 15, 2017. In a statement signed by the Registrar and Secretary to Council, Jacob A. Agboola, students of the University are expected to return to...

The Lagos State University (LASU) Governing Council has dismissed 15 Academic Staff, including the Chairman and Vice Chairman of Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) of the institution, over various malpractices. The dismissed LASU-ASUU Chairman and Vice Chairman were Dr Isaac Oyewunmi and Dr Adebowale Adeyemi-Suenu. LASU spokesman Ademola Adekoya,...