The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board have announced a new method of checking the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination after shutting down its portal. According to the examination body, the new method of checking UTME results was due to the activities of fraudsters. JAMB said candidates should check their results using their unique telephone numbers. […]
The National Examinations Council, NECO, has vowed to sanction schools charging above the government-approved fee of N9, 850 as registration fee for the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE. Acting Registrar of NECO, Dr Abubakar Gana, said the examination body has written to Commissioners of Education of the 36 states and FCT, notifying them of […]
The Joint Admissions Matriculation Board (JAMB) had said it has not cancelled the results of its examination conducted on March 14 to 17. In a statement sent to PREMIUM TIMES Wednesday morning, the spokesperson of the board, Fabian Benjamin, said candidates should disregard rumours that the results have been cancelled. PREMIUM TIMES reported how results […]
No fewer than 1,900,000 candidates will sit for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination on Saturday (today) across over 600 Computer-Based Test centres nationwide. This is just as the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board said it had made arrangements to ensure that its workers taking part in the examination use hand gloves and hand sanitisers, […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities on Monday declared a two-week warning strike against non-payment of salaries of lecturers not enrolled in the Federal Government’s Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System. National President of the union, Biodun Ogunyemi, who read the declaration after the ASUU National Executive Council meeting held in Enugu, said the warning […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says prospective candidates for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) are free to print their examination slips for the Computer Based Test. The board’s UTME is scheduled to commence nationwide on Saturday, March 14. The Head, Media and Information of the board, Dr Fabian Benjamin, told the […]
Minister of Finance, Zainab Shamsunna Ahmad, has disclosed of the Federal Government’s decision resolution to suspend the payment of February salaries to members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) yet to enrol in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel System (IPPIS). She made the disclosure at the opening of a management retreat for treasury […]
The management of the University of Lagos has postponed the university’s 51st convocation scheduled to commence on March 9. This was contained in a press statement released on the university’s website on Thursday. No reason was given for the postponement in the statement signed by the Registrar and Secretary to Council, Oladejo Azeez, Esq. The […]
The Federal Government has selected six northern states for the pilot phase of its Open Schooling Programme (OSP). OSP which was launched in early 2019 is an open learning programme aimed at reducing the high number of out-of-school children in the country. The beneficiaries, Kaduna, Katsina, Kebbi, Kano, Adamawa and Niger, are among the 10 […]
Monica Osagie Monday told the Senator Michael Opeyemi Bamidele, All Progressives Congress, APC, Ekiti Central led Senate Senate Committee on Judiciary, Human Rights and Legal Matters that she was denied certificate from the Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, Ile-Ife in Osun State after exposing the randy lecturer of sexual harassment. Osagie who was at the centre […]