The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has registered over 1,900,000 candidates for the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination, as the registration for the examination closes by midnight on Monday (today). JAMB said on Sunday that the 1.9million was the highest number of registration done in the history of the board and would still increase as […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned tertiary institutions to stop offering admissions to candidates through their own portals. The board described the practice as the flagrant abuse of the automated Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS). In its weekly bulletin which was sent to PREMIUM TIMES on Monday, the spokesperson of the board, […]
Days after PREMIUM TIMES exclusively reported how Olabisi Olaleye, a lecturer of the Department of International Relations, demanded sex from a student, another staffer is currently enmeshed in an alleged sex scandal, sources and the school management have said. The scandal emerged at the university’s Centre for Distance Learning (CDL). PREMIUM TIMES gathered that a […]
The National Examination Council (NECO) has reached out to the Department of State Services (DSS) for support in tackling cases of impersonation and malpractices ahead of its 2020 exams. Abubakar Saddique, chairman of NECO’s governing board, disclosed this when he led Abubakar Gana, acting registrar of the council, and the management team on a visit […]
The Lagos State Government on Monday announced plans to commence total enforcement of the 2012 state Traffic Law on activities of motorcyclists, popularly called Okada and tricycles, called “Keke Marwa” on restricted routes and bridges. The restriction and enforcement also affect the newly introduced “Opay ride, Gokada ride” and other similar commercial motorcycles. He did […]
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says its members will embark on strike action if the federal government fails to pay their salaries by the end of January. President Muhammadu Buhari had ordered all government workers to enrol in the Integrated Personnel and Payroll Information System (IPPIS) — including university lecturers. The union had […]
The Jigawa Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps has warned Computer Based Test centres against extortion of prospective candidates for the 2020 Joint Admission Matriculation Examination Board. The spokesman of the corps, Mr Adamu Shehu, made the disclosure in a statement, noting that the Commandant, Mr Garba Muhammad, gave the charge when […]
The two academic unions in Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, have disowned Bisi Olaleye, a lecturer enmeshed in a sex-for-marks scandal. The two unions are the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the breakaway Congress University Academics (CONUA). PREMIUM TIMES exposed how Mr Olaleye of the Department of International Relations, Faculty of Administration, was […]
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has withdrawn licences from 11 Computer-Based Centres (CBTs) for charging candidates unreasonably high amount in the ongoing 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). The Registrar of the board, Ishaq Oloyede, said this in Abuja on Tuesday at an interactive session with the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps […]
University workers have begun mobilisation for a possible industrial action over the non-implementation of the new national minimum wage in the universities despite Presidential directive that it be implemented by December 31, 2019. A highly placed source close to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) told The Nation that the university workers are not […]