Several lecture halls at the Federal University of Lafia have been submerged by floods following a week-long torrential rainfall in the Nasarawa State capital city. Arewa PUNCH observed that most students of the institution were stranded at the school gate on Friday as they could not access their ...

The National Board for Technical Education has fully transitioned to a digital platform for all quality assurance processes, aligning with the Federal Government’s digital-driven policies and the demands of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It said efective August 2024, there will be no more ...

By Ochogwu Sunday A member of the House of Representatives from Plateau State, Yusuf Gagdi has come under heavy criticism for gifting his daughter, Aisha, a new Sport Utility Vehicle, SUV, after her graduation from secondary school. Reports had earlier emerged online stating that the lawmaker ...

  Eton College, one of the most prestigious private boarding schools in the world, has implemented a new policy requiring incoming students to use basic Nokia devices instead of smartphones. Known for educating world leaders and royalty, Eton's alumni, known as Old Etonians, include ...

By Williams Anuku The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman has conceded his decision to peg the admission age of undergraduates to 18, following protests from stakeholders at the ongoing Policy meeting organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB. Mamman said Heads of ...

By Musliudeen Adebayo Protest is currently ongoing among students of the University of Ibadan in Oyo State over introduction of a 10-hour daily electricity supply within the campus, DAILY POST reports It was gathered that the institution introduced a 10-hour daily electricity supply with effect ...

By Francis Ugwu The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced that it has shelved the conduct of aptitude test for 2024 Direct Entry candidates. The Board instead said that other placement criteria will be considered for Direct Entry admissions. JAMB announced this on Monday ...

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund has said loans applied for under the student loan scheme will be disbursed to applicants based on the academic calendars of respective institutions. The Head, Media and Public Relations of NELFUND, Nasir Ayitogo, made this known in an interview with our ...

Analysis of data on the admissions conducted for the 2022/2023 admission session in Nigerian universities, polytechnics and other tertiary institutions of learning revealed that 88 institutions conducted admissions outside of the Central Admissions Processing System popularly referred to as CAPS. ...

By Timi Owolabi The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU, at the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, have called for the immediate dismissal of the Ministers of Education and Labour and Productivity. The unions, ...

By Abdulrazaq Adebayo Kwara State University, Malete, has expelled 175 students of the institution for various offenses. A statement by the Acting Director, University Relations, Dr Saeedat Aliyu, said the approval of the expulsion followed the recommendations of the Students’ Disciplinary ...

By Enahoro Iyemefokhai Barely 24 hours after students of the Ugbowo campus of the University of Benin, UNIBEN, protested over the lack of electricity and shortage of water in the institution, members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, of the institution boycotted all academic ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board has uncovered 3,000 fake graduates who never set foot within the four walls of a classroom. The board also decried the issue of illegal admissions by some institutions which, it said, had remained a source of embarrassment to the country. The ...

The House of Representatives, on Tuesday, mandated its Committee on Basic Education to investigate the Internally Generated Revenue of the West African Examination Council from 2018 to 2023. The House arrived at the resolution after considering a motion brought on the floor of the House during ...

A former Senator,  Shehu Sani, has cautioned about the imminent collapse of public schools especially in Northern Nigeria, calling on the leaders in the region to take education with all the seriousness it deserves. He spoke during the 40th anniversary of Government Science College, Kagara, ...

By Seun Opejobi The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has released the results of candidates of the supplementary Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The supplementary UTME was conducted between Friday, June 21st and ...

By Francis Ugwu Members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, chapter have threatened to embark on strike over the failure of the Federal Government to address their grievances. This is even as the union said that it had employed both diplomatic ...

By Ochogwu Sunday The Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, ended their closed-door meeting on Wednesday with an agreement that all contentious issues would be amicably resolved to avert a strike. The closed-door meeting, which started at about 4:30 pm ...

By Lovina Anthony The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Uyo branch, has issued a two-week ultimatum to the Federal Government to honour the 2009 renegotiated agreement it had with the union or risk industrial action. In a public sensitization protest on Wednesday at the ...

The management of Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has announced a 14-day postponement of the application process for student loan for state institutions. The students loan fund explained in a statement on Tuesday that the action was due to low data ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, alongside vice-chancellors of universities, rectors of polytechnics, and provosts of colleges of education, among other stakeholders in the education sector, will meet on July 18, 2024, to decide the cut-off or minimum benchmarks for admission. The ...

By  Shehu Usman Yobe State University’s branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has kicked against the proliferation of state universities without adequate funds to run them. The university’s ASUU chairman, Dr Ahmed Ibrahim Karage, stated the ...

Holders of Higher National Diploma (HND), will now be employed as lecturers in the Polytechnic new schemes of service approved by the Nigerian Polytechnics, Executive Secretary of National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), Prof. Idris Mohammed Bugaje has said. He spoke on Wednesday during the ...

By Khaleel Muhammad The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has issued a three weeks ultimatum to Federal Government to respond to its demands, to avoid industrial action. Chairperson ASUU Federal University Dutse, FUD, Branch in Jigawa State, Comrade Salim Ahmed gave the ...

A total of 560 individuals were appointed to the governing councils and boards of Federal Government-owned tertiary institutions.  President Bola Tinubu approved the reconstitution of Governing Councils and Boards of federal universities, polytechnics and colleges of education. In a statement on ...

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund has said it would publish the full list of institutions that have submitted their complete student data as requested by the agency for upload onto the NELFUND Student Verification System. NELFUND on Thursday, said the list would be published on June 24, 2024. This ...

The Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Prof Wahab Egbewole (SAN), has expressed concern over the hike in electricity tariffs imposed by the Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company, which he said had affected the university budget. In an electronic message sent to staff and students of ...

LAGOS: The University of Lagos, UNILAG, has stopped admission into two departments, namely Biochemistry and Petroleum & Gas Engineering. This was contained in a statement endorsed by the Registrar, Mrs Olakunle Makinde. Though the university did not state the reasons for the action, it ...

By Ifreke Inyang The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has joined the ongoing strike embarked up from Monday, by the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, and Trade Union Congress, TUC. Organized labour have begun the industrial action, after the federal government’s failure to meet the unions’ ...

By Seun Opejobi The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has rescheduled its 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, for 24,535 candidates. JAMB rescheduled the UTME due to the substantial non-compliance with its standards in the centres of the affected candidates. The ...

The Nigerian Education Loan Fund has confirmed that Nigerian students studying abroad were ineligible for the newly introduced student loan scheme. The NELFUND’s Managing Director, Akintunde Sawyerr, disclosed this information on Friday. The Access to Higher Education Act, 2023, signed into law ...

By Ogaga Ariemu Nigerian government says about 30,000 students have successfully applied for its loan scheme barely seven days after the portal was launched on 24th May, 2024. Akintunde Sawyerr, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday while ...

By Casmir Nwankwo A final-year student of the Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, EBSU, identified as Favour Ugwuka has allegedly committed suicide. DAILY POST learnt that Miss Ugwuka committed suicide in her hostel at the Ishieke Campus of the university on Thursday. It was gathered that the ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The Much-awaited Nigeria’s education loan scheme commenced on Friday. The managing director/chief executive officer of the Nigeria Education Loan Fund, Akintunde Sawyerr, recently announced that the launch portal will be on Friday, May 24, 2024. According to NELFUND, the scheme’s ...

A group of Nigerian students have been thrown off university courses and ordered to leave the United Kingdom after they struggled to pay tuition fees on time, BBC reports. The Teesside University students have said the devaluation of the naira has made it difficult for them to pay their tuition ...

The long-awaited student loan programme will take off on Friday with 1.2 million students in federal tertiary institutions across the country, the Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of the Nigeria Education Loan Fund, Akintunde Sawyerr, has said. Sawyerr, who spoke at a pre-application ...

MTN Nigeria Foundation has announced scholarship opportunities for Nigerian students to support education and empower the next generation of leaders. It has also increased the annual award amount from N200,000 to N300,000 for eligible students. The scholarships are in three categories which ...

By Ogaga Ariemu The Nigerian government has finally announced that the application portal for the much-awaited student loan will open on Friday, May 24. The spokesman of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, Nasir Ayitogo, disclosed this in a statement on Thursday. The loan scheme allows ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Tuesday, has released additional 36,540 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results, which were earlier withheld for further investigation. This was in addition to the 531 results released the previous week now bringing the total results ...

By Matthew Atungwu The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has threatened another nationwide strike to protest absence of governing councils in all federal universities across the country among other issues the Federal Government is yet to address. ASUU President, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, ...

By Francis Ugwu Students of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, have protested the arrest of their colleagues by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC. The students, DAILY POST gathered, attacked some buildings on the campus of the polytechnic, where they also vandalised ...

The Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, on Wednesday, lamented the drop in enrolment of pupils into schools across the state. Sani, who expressed concern over the development, linked it to the spate of insecurity, occasioned by kidnapping, banditry and other related crimes, in the state. He ...

The Kwara State Governor, AbdulRahman AbdulRazaq, on Monday, visited Eucharistic Heart of Jesus College in Ilorin, over the superlative performance of students in the 2024 United Tertiary Matriculation Examination. Thirty-five students of the Catholic school scored between 300 and 355 out of the ...

Parents and teachers of candidates who registered for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination have bemoaned the 77% failure rate recorded by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board. On Monday, JAMB said 77% of the 1,842,464 candidates whose 2024 UTME results were released, scored ...

The management of Eucharistic Heart of Jesus Model College in Ilorin, Kwara State, have taken to social media to celebrate the exploits of 30 of their students who scored 300 marks and above in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The said students scored between 300 and ...

By Matthew Atungwu A student of a public secondary school, Government Secondary School, Omu Aran, Kwara State, Olukayode Victor Olusola, scored 362 marks in this year’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, to be among the contenders for the highest scorers in the examination. Though ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu The Nigerian Senate has made it clear that the statements regarding the potential increase of the age limit to 18 years were individual viewpoints. The Senate stressed that any adjustments to the age limit would require proper legislative procedures, whether they involve ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has urged Nigerians to be wary of any candidate parading printed result slips as currently, the result is not in any paper format. JAMB’s spokesperson, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, in a statement on Wednesday, said the information became necessary as some ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Monday, released the results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, showing that 1,402,490 candidates out of  1,842,464 failed to score 200 out of 400 marks. The number of candidates who failed to score half of the possible marks ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has concluded plans to release the results of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, is scheduled to hold a press briefing in Abuja on Monday regarding the release of the results and related matters, ...