EDUCATION

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has revealed that 13 candidates with the top 10 best results in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) 2020 were from Anambra, Edo, Delta, Ekiti, Ondo, Akwa Ibom, Kwara, Oyo, and Ogun states. All the candidates incidentally were said to have applied to...

The 20th Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria has approved 160 and above as the national minimum benchmark for admission for the year 2020 into public universities. The meeting held virtually on Tuesday, also approved 140 as minimum Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) score for admission into...

  Chancellor of the Precious Cornerstone University, (PCU), Ibadan, Bishop Francis Wale Oke, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari -led administration to evolve mechanism of making funds accessible to researchers in Nigeria. Specifically, Oke said there was urgent need for the government and other relevant stakeholders to assist researchers in...

The Federal Government has said it was working to review the timetables for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO) examinations closer. Minister of State for Education, Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba, stated this on Monday, while speaking at the Presidential Task Force (PTF) for COVID-19. “It requires...

  The National Universities Commission (NUC) has given approval to only 12 Nigerian universities  to operate both conventional learning and Open and Distance learning (ODL). The 12 were given ‘conventional’ licences to operate a dual-mode system – face to face learning in the classroom and also the open distance learning....

  Lagos State Commissioner for Education, Mrs Folashade Adefisayo, has disclosed that the ministry was working with the Federal Ministry of Education, Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Development Agencies and others to develop a very robust protocol paper for school to reopen in the state and other states of...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the establishment of the first set of 12 TETFund “centres of excellence”, two in each of the six geopolitical zones of Nigeria. The first set of the institutions, which will focus on research in science-based disciplines, will be hosted by federal universities. The Director, Physical...

Private School owners have appealed to the Federal Government to facilitate  a revolving loan scheme for them at a reduced interest  rate to cussion the effects of COVID-19. They made the appeal under the aegis of the Association of Private School Owners of Nigeria (APSON). In a letter, APSON urged...

The Leadership of the National Assembly on Thursday met with the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning to be briefed by the latter on the plan by the Federal Government to amend the N10.59 trillion 2020 budget passed by the National Assembly in December last year. The meeting which...

The Founder and Chancellor of the flourishing Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD), Aare Afe Babalola (SAN), has offered prescriptions on how the Federal Government can reopen schools and universities within four weeks in phases. According to Aare Babalola, only the Almighty God Himself can determine when the current COVID-19 pandemic...