EDUCATION

Will Smith, who won the 2022 best actor Oscar for his role in King Richard, now faces possible disciplinary action by the Academy after hitting Chris Rock at the award ceremony on Sunday. The Academy will meet later this week to determine if action will be taken against the Oscar winner over the incident. Looking […]

A group, National Association of University Students, NAUS, has given the Federal Government, FG, 48hours to finalize all agreements with the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, in order to stop the ongoing strike action. The group further warned that failure of the federal government to complete settlements with ASUU, it would proceed to carry-out […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said it will not extend the March 26 deadline for the registration of the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE). JAMB Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, who announced this during the monitoring of the registration at Global Distance Learning Computer-Based Centre yesterday in Abuja, […]

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has presented awards of excellence and prizes to two Nigerian students and one Ghanian, whose performances were outstanding in the 2021 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The examination was written in five west African countries of Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone and The Gambia. The examination body also presented […]

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it will continue its roll-over strike for another eight weeks to enable the Federal Government address issues in concrete terms. The ASUU President, Mr Emmanuel Osodeke, said this in a communiqué issued at the end of its National Executive Council emergency meeting on Monday in Abuja. Osodeke […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has warned prospective candidates that there will be no extension of the ongoing registration for the 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE). The Board said the announcement became necessary due to the drop in the number of candidates coming forward to register in spite of its […]

THE Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission, Dr Hamid Bobboyi (UBEC) has decried poor execution of some infrastructure projects in basic education in the country, and vowed to strengthen its monitoring mechanism to curb the menace. He expressed commitment of the commission towards ensuring that state governments make judicious use of the matching grant […]

The National Youth Service Corps has advised corps members to ignore online messages from “criminals” offering postings to preferred locations. The agency stressed that postings and relocation were done free of charge, and warned them against making payments to anyone for the purposes. A statement on Wednesday by the Deputy Director, Press and Public Relations, […]

The Federal Government has reconstituted a team to renegotiate the 2009 agreements it  entered with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Reconstituting the team, the Minister of Education Malam Adamu Adamu, said there was the need to speedily bring to conclusion all outstanding issues in the 2009 agreements.This, according to the minister, is in […]