EDUCATION

The Federal Government has expressed concern over cases of infection amongst some students sitting for the Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations (SSSCE), restating  the need for more vigilance by the stakeholders and everyone else. The Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) and Chairman, Presidential Task Force (PTF) on...

The West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) has said that some of its supervisors leaked exam questions before the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) began. WAEC’s Head of National Office, Mr. Patrik Areghan, revealed this on Wednesday. Areghan stated this during a monitoring exercise to some schools in Yaba,...

The 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates on Monday commenced across the country under strict COVID-19 protocols. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that 1,550,000 candidates would be participating in this year’s examination spread across 19,129 centres nationwide. The examination, which was supposed to...

 The management of Landmark University, Omu-Aran in Kwara, on Monday said it had approved free tuition fees for all its agriculture-related programmes in the institution. Prof. Adeniyi Olayanju, the institution’s Vice-Chancellor, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Omu-Aran that the approval would take effect from the 2018/2019 academic...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and heads of all tertiary institutions have agreed to commence the 2020/2021 post- Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) screening on September 7. The board explained the shift in the date of admission processes was to allow students sitting for the 2020 O’ level...

As schools resumed on Monday, the Kano State Government said it would deploy additional teachers to fast track revision for exit students writing their West African Senior School Certificate Examination. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the state government had given a directive for the reopening of schools...

• Mathematics, August 24; English Language, August 26 The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has published the full time-table for the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The examination body on Twitter revealed the ‘Final International Timetable for the Conduct of WASSCE for School Candidates, 2020’. A look...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has released the timetable for the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The examination body confirmed the development via a statement uploaded on its Twitter page on Tuesday. The statement signed by WAEC’s Head of Public Affairs, Mr. Demianus Ojijeogu, reiterated that...

The West African Examination Council (WASSCE) has extended registration for private candidates to August 28, 2020. The body made the disclosure in a post via its official Twitter handle on Wednesday. It said: “This is to inform intending candidates of WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2020-Second Series that the closing date...

The Committee of Pro-Chancellors of Private Universities (CPCPU) has appealed to the Federal Government to reopen the country’s 78 private universities which have been shut alongside other educational institutions in Nigeria since March 23 within the next one month to save the nation’s economy. In the communiqué issued at the...