The sacked Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, has engaged a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mike Ozekhome, to file a suit to challenge his removal from office. His letter of instruction dated August 12, 2020 and addressed to Ozekhome was seen by our correspondent on Thursday. Ogundipe stated in the letter that […]
Federal Ministry of Education today announced the reopening of secondary schools for JSS3 and SS3 (only exit classes) from August 4, 2020. Students will have two weeks to prepare for the West African Examinations (WAEC) which will commence on August 17, 2020. These were the unanimous decisions reached at a virtual consultative meeting between the […]
Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has inaugurated the governing councils of 13 federal universities in the country. Adamu, during the inauguration in Abuja on Monday, charged the chairmen and members of the various councils to foster harmonious relationships while carrying out their duties in the next four years. He urged council members and chairmen […]
By Foster Obi Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, said on Monday that the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) is scheduled to start in the first week of August. He stated this at the briefing of the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 in Abuja. He noted, it is “From the 4th of […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has set 160 and above as cut off mark for 2020/21 admissions into universities across the country. The Registrar of the board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, disclosed this during a presentation of the policy considerations at the 2020 Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions on Tuesday in Abuja. […]
National Universities Commission (NUC) has said that only 12 Nigerian universities have approval 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. The NUC also said only a […]
The National Examinations Council has said it has not postponed the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination and Basic Education Certificate Examination due to the coronavirus pandemic. The council said it was studying the prevailing situation in the country and would postpone the exams if there was any need. Both the SSCE and BECE usually take […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has said it has not yet fixed the cut-off marks for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination. It described the cut-off marks being circulated on the Internet as fake. The board stated this in its weekly bulletin obtained by our correspondent on Sunday. It stated that the 2020 UTME […]
The 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examination has been postponed indefinitely. The West African Examinations Council made this known in a statement on Friday. The statement quoted WAEC Nigeria’s Head of National Office, Mr. Patrick Areghan, as saying that the examination scheduled to begin April 6, 2020, was postponed as a result of coronavirus […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination results of over 450,000 candidates who took the exam nationwide on Tuesday. It warned candidates to be wary of the activities of fraudsters. The board said on Wednesday that some fraudsters were extorting money from the candidates to access the results while […]