Educational

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and heads of various tertiary institutions in the country have agreed to conclude all 2020/2021 admissions by June 15. The board made the disclosure in a statement signed on Sunday by its Head ...

The Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) and National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) have threatened to shut down schools over the abductions of students by terrorists. According to the two groups the recent spate of kidnap means that students are ...

Years after completion of his tertiary education as a graduate of English studies and literature, transportation minister Rotimi Amaechi has enrolled at Baze University, Abuja, as a law student. Mr. Amaechi received a bachelor of arts degree (honours) from the ...

The leadership of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of non-teaching staff unions of universities has announced the suspension of its three-week old strike with effect from midnight February 26. JAC non-teaching staff comprises the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities ...

Governor Sani Bello of Niger State has ordered the immediate closure of all the boarding schools in four local government areas of the state. This is as a result of the abduction of students and staff of Government Science College, ...

Authorities of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, have finally taken action against the lecturer accused of impregnating one of his students. Daily Post had reported that a senior lecturer at the Archeology Department of the UNN was arrested by ...

The picture of the original certificate issued by University of Port Harcourt, Uniport to Nengi has surfaced on the internet.  Nengi earlier revealed that she was one of only 20 students to graduate with a 2nd class upper in a ...

  Three students of the Ebonyi State University (EBSU) have allegedly died after they suffocated while attempting to write a GST exam in a crowded hall on Wednesday, February 10, 2021.   Footage shared online show hundreds of students struggling ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Tuesday alerted Nigerians to the merchants of malpractices in the centres of its 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination in some Northern parts of the country. According to the organisation, examination scam syndicates in ...

Aww, a 50-year-old woman has enrolled at Ilorin Grammar School Ilorin.   Mrs. Ajayi Folashade started her adult education at JJS2 [Junior Secondary 2]. She attends classes with children much younger than her own kids, but says she doesn’t mind ...

The management of the Lagos State University has postponed the 2019/2020 first semester examinations indefinitely after non-academic staff shut the entrance of the university. The Punch gathered that workers under the aegis of Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities and ...

  China’s primary and middle schools have introduced a ban on mobile phone use in classrooms, among wider efforts to protect pupils from internet and video game addiction. Primary and middle school students should not bring mobile phones into classrooms, ...

The Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Marwa (retd.), has ordered the state commanders of the agency to mop up illicit drugs across the country. He also hinted that the agency would seek government’s approval ...

The non-academic workers at Nigerian universities have announced plans to commence an indefinite strike on February 5, 2021. The Joint Action Committee of NASU and SSANU made this known in a communique on Friday. Part of the communique read, “It ...

The management of the University of Ibadan, UI, has fixed Monday, January 18 for resumption and cancelled the 2019/2020 academic session. The announcement came as the Senate of the apex institution approved a new calendar on Thursday. The school will ...

University of Lagos, Wednesday announced its resumption date. Mrs Olufadeke Akinleye, Head of the Media Unit of the university said the institution would commence online classes on January 25 due to the second wave of COVID-19. University of Jos, on ...

The Federal Government is set to review the January 18 resumption date for schools in the country following rising COVID-19 cases. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this in Abuja at the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 briefing. Adamu said ...

The Nigerian government through its Ministry of Education has said the January 18 date for schools to resume is not sacrosanct. The government said a new date might be announced depending on the nation’s Covid-19 indicators. The Minister of Education, ...

Branches of the Academic Staff Union of Universities on Sunday assessed COVID-19 protocols in the universities and said the institutions were not ready for safe reopening.   The chapters of the union, in separate interviews with The Punch, commented on the ...

Academic activities in the nation’s ivory towers would soon kick off with the National Universities Commission directing Vice-Chancellors of Universities to commence academic activities on January 18.   The announcement was in compliance with the directive of the Presidential Task ...

Oga oh! JAMB has lost its third ex-chairman in 2020 ALONE as Professor Isa Baba Mohammed, Chairman of the 5th and 6th Governing Board of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) kicks the bucket. The 1st to die, Professor ...

The Academic Staff Union of University (ASUU) on Wednesday “conditionally” suspended its strike, ending a protracted industrial action that started since March 2020.   ASUU National President, Biodun Ogunyemi made the announcement during a briefing of the union in Abuja, ...

              A man and his two daughters had their convocation ceremony on the same day and the photos have gone viral.   The youngest of them shared the photos on social media saying she ...

  MC Oluomo is celebrating his daughter, Nofisat Akinsanya who just bagged a degree in Nursing from Georgia Southern University in the United States. Mc took to social media to say how proud of her he is and to wish ...

The Lagos States Government has directed public and private schools in the state to vacate on Friday. Director-general Lagos State Office of Education Quality Assurance, Ministry of Education, Abiola Seriki-Ayeni announced the directive in a statement. “The 2020/2021 First (1st) ...