EDUCATION

Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, the State Minister for Education, has said that Nigerians on scholarship abroad have been paid through their various Embassies. Nwajiuba said this at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 daily news briefing on Monday in Abuja. He said that the money had gotten to the embassies in...

  The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has published the names of 195 candidates who it said engaged in a series of examination infractions in the 2020 examination. The examination board detailed this in its weekly bulletin released on Sunday . It said of the 1,945,983 candidates who sat...

Prof. Segun Ajiboye, the Registrar of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), says Africa must develop infrastructure to integrate technology into learning following lessons learnt from the COVID-19 experience. Ajiboye stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan on Tuesday while speaking on the...

  The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has stated that West African Senior Secondary Certificate Examination, 2020 WASSCE, has not been cancelled. The body made this known in a statement by the Head of WAEC, Nigeria, Mr. Patrick Areghan, on Sunday, the body explained that a notice alleging the cancellation...

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu has approved special e-portals that will allow Lagos State tertiary institutions commence online lectures as part of measures to reduce the impact of Coronavirus on education. The seven schools that will benefit from the initiative are: Lagos State University (LASU), Lagos State Polytechnic, Adeniran Ogunsanya...

The Federal Government granted Nigerian students  free subscription  to e-learning through some selected sites in partnership with some major networks in the country. Mr Emeka Nwajiuba,  Minister of State for Education, made this known during the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 daily press briefing in Abuja. He said  the federal government...

The National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), has announced the indefinite postponement of the board’s 2020 May/June Ordinary Level Certificate Examinations. Registrar/Chief Executive Officer of NABTEB, Prof. Ifeoma Isiugo-Abanihe, made known in a statement on Thursday in Benin. “The 2020 May/June series of the NABTEB Certificate Examinations, which are...

Candidates sitting for this year’s West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) and National Examination Council (NECO) examinations would know when they would be writing the papers after the COVID-19 lockdown. Mr Emeka Nwajiuba, Minister of State for Education, said this at the Presidential Taskforce on COVID-19 daily press briefing on Tuesday...

 The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has published the 2019 provisional matriculation list of admitted candidates on the official website of the board. The board disclosed this in its weekly bulletin made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja. The board also advised candidates...

  The National Examinations Council (NECO) says it has not postponed the 2020 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) and Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) due to the prevailing situation in the Country. Mr Azeez Sani, Head, Information and Public Relations Division of the council made this known in a statement...