President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of renowned banker and businessman, Jim Ovia, as the Chairman, Board of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund. Ovia’s appointment is contained in a State House statement titled, ‘President Tinubu appoints Jim Ovia as Chairman of the Nigerian ...
READ MORE +By Emmanuel Ugwueze The management of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, has suspended Mr Mfonobong David Udoudom, a lecturer in the General Studies division, who was caught in a video allegedly harassing a female student. DAILY POST reports that the lecturer was caught pants down on Monday ...
READ MORE +The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman on Monday, said the Federal Government is considering the adoption of 18 years as the entry age for admission into universities and other tertiary institutions of learning. Mamman also said underage students were responsible for some of the problems ...
READ MORE +By Williams Anuku Owing to paucity of authentic data on all aspects of the education sector in Nigeria, President Bola Tinubu has ordered the conduct of an extensive census to ascertain the fault lines and aid proper planning. The presidential directive handed down on Thursday, is expected to ...
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READ MORE +By Ogaga Ariemu President Bola Tinubu has approved the management team of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND. This was contained in a statement on Friday by Ajuri Ngelale, a presidential spokesperson. Accordingly, he appointed Akintunde Sawyerr as the Managing Director and Chief Executive ...
READ MORE +By Ogaga Ariemu President Bola Tinubu has approved the management team of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND. This was contained in a statement on Friday by Ajuri Ngelale, a presidential spokesperson. Accordingly, he appointed Akintunde Sawyerr as the Managing Director and Chief Executive ...
READ MORE +By Ajisafe Olayiwola Kaduna State Governor, Uba Sani, has promised free education to the freed 137 schoolchildren of the LEA Primary School and Government Secondary School. Sani added that the school and the Kuriga community would be renovated, all under the Uba Sani Foundation. The governor ...
READ MORE +The Joint Action Committee of the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational Associated Institutions, and the National Association of Academic Technologists of the University will end the ongoing seven-day and three-day warning strike by midnight, ...
READ MORE +By Seun Opejobi The Senate has passed the Student Loan, Access to Higher Education, Act 2024. The senate’s resolution followed its consideration of the report of the senate committee on tertiary institutions and TETFUND. The chairman of the committee, Senator Muntari Dandutse presented the ...
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READ MORE +The National Association of Nigerian Students has said it is not realistic to expect beneficiaries of the Federal Government loan scheme to begin repayment two years after the completion of the National Youth Service Corps. It argued that less than 10 per cent of graduates get absorbed into the ...
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READ MORE +Ogun State Government on Wednesday flagged off the payment of N10,000 cash award to 100,000 primary and secondary school learners in the over 2, 000 public schools across the four divisions of the state. The payment is in fulfillment of the promise made by Governor Dapo Abiodun, to pay N10,000 to ...
READ MORE +The Federal Government has invited memoranda from the public as it begins the probe of private universities established in the last 15 years. The Federal Government initiated the probe following an investigative report by Daily Nigerian journalist, Umar Audu, uncovering certificate racketeering in ...
READ MORE +By Francis Ugwu The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union, NASU, have declared a 7-day warning strike to demand the payment of four months of withheld salaries of their members, following the 2022 nationwide strike. The decision was part of the ...
READ MORE +The National Examination Council NECO, on Monday, revealed that 50,066 candidates representing 67.35 per cent of the total number of candidates that sat for Senior School Certificate Examinations got five credits including Mathematics and English language. The Registrar of NECO, Professor Ibrahim ...
READ MORE +By Ogaga Ariemu Amid the continued fluctuation of the Naira against the US dollar in the foreign exchange market, the Central Bank of Nigeria says it is considering stopping street trading, among other fresh guidelines, to Bureau De Change Operators in Nigeria. The apex bank disclosed this Friday ...
READ MORE +By Matthew Atungwu The Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, has denied increasing fees in public boarding schools in the federal capital. The Mandate Secretary, Education Secretariat, FCTA, Dr Danlami Hayyo, made the clarification in an interview with newsmen on Thursday in Abuja. ...
READ MORE +By Francis Ugwu The Federal Government has commenced payment of the seized salaries of public university lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Comrade Nobert Oyibo Eze, the University of Nigeria, Nsukka branch Chairman of ASUU confirmed the development to DAILY ...
READ MORE +The Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, on Wednesday, frowned at the invasion of some student off-campus hostels by the operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The PUNCH reports that operatives of the EFCC carried out a midnight operation at the student hostels ...
READ MORE +An Abia State Univerisity lecturer identified as Anucha Wisdom proposed to his fiancee in her classroom on Wednesday. Pictures and videos now circulating on Facebook showed the moment Wisdom went down on a knee with a ring in his hands to propose to his lover who is said to be a student in the ...
READ MORE +By John Gabriel The West African Examinations Council, WAEC, has released its West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, result for private candidates. The WASSCE for private candidates was conducted between 27 October and 20 December, 2023. WAEC’s Acting Head of Public Affairs ...
READ MORE +Ahead of the official launch of the Student Loan Scheme on February 21, 2024, the Nigeria Education Loan Fund said it is finalising repayment modalities. Although it confirmed that the 10 per cent direct deduction from the beneficiaries’ salaries still stands, applicants can pay higher percentages ...
READ MORE +The Nigerian Tulip International Colleges, NTIC, has won 22 medals at the Mathematics without Borders Int’l Tournament held in Bulgaria. According to the organizers of the tournament, the Mathematics without Borders Int’l Tournament is an academic mathematics tournament which “aims at promoting ...
READ MORE +By Matthew Atungwu Stakeholders in the education sector are worried over the proliferation of tertiary institutions in the country. This development followed the report that the National Assembly is considering various bills to create about 32 Federal Colleges of Education, 11 Federal Colleges of ...
READ MORE +By Nsikak Nseyen Mr Yisa Usman, a Deputy Director with the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has filed a N150 million suit against the board over alleged unlawful dismissal. Usman, in the suit marked: NICN/ABJ/266/2023 and filed by his lawyer, Oseini Bamigbaye ...
READ MORE +By Ogaga Ariemu President Bola Tinubu has directed the management of the Nigeria Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, to expand its focus area by extending interest-free loans to Nigerian students interested in skill development programmes. According to Ajuri Ngelale, presidential spokesperson, Tinubu ...
READ MORE +The Vice Chancellor, Afe Babalola University Ado-Ekiti (ABUAD) Professor Smaranda Olarinde has declared that the” institution does not produce mere regular graduates but those who can compete with their contemporaries at top -notch universities in the world . Speaking at the 15th ...
READ MORE +The Joint Admission and Matriculations Board has said Persons Living With Disability who wish to sit for the 2024/2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination can register at no cost. The JAMB Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, disclosed this while rolling out the registration process for interested ...
READ MORE +The National Board for Technical Education has announced the unbundling of the Higher Education Diploma course in Computer Science as a result of emerging trends. NBTE Executive Director, Prof Idris Bugaje, disclosed this in a letter addressed to all heads of polytechnics and mono-technics in the ...
READ MORE +Parents of the over 10,000 students of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University, Bauchi, have kicked against the compulsory “toxicology test” that their children have been scheduled to undertake upon their resumption for the next academic session. Arewa PUNCH learnt that the test is to know if they ...
READ MORE +Taraba State Governor, Dr Agbu Kefas, has disclosed plans by his administration to make master’s degree the minimum academic qualification for anyone wishing to teach in the state’s secondary schools. For primary school, the governor said the minimum academic qualification will be a university ...
READ MORE +The National Association of Nigerian Students President for Benin Republic, Ugochukwu Favour, has called for the arrest of the reporter, Umar Audu, who went undercover to expose corruption in the issuance of certificates in the country. Speaking in an interview on Thursday on the Channels TV ...
READ MORE +By John Owen Nwachukwu The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, Benin Republic, has revealed that over 15,000 students in the country have been affected by the recent ban on schools in the region. NANS, for this reason, is calling for leniency over the ban on validation of degree ...
READ MORE +Following the suspension of accreditation and evaluation of degree certificates from Benin Republic and Togo, the Federal Government has said sanction would be extended to more countries like Uganda, Kenya and Niger Republic. “We are not going to stop at just Benin and Togo,” the Minister of ...
READ MORE +By Olasunkanmi Akinlotan Ten days after DAILY POST exposed an Ogun State-based polytechnic, where law, nursing, pharmacy among other university exclusive courses are offered, the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has threatened to forcefully shut the institution if the Federal ...
READ MORE +By Amos Tauna The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, has said Nigerian institutions running unaccredited courses should be suspended. It said this after the Federal Ministry of Education on Tuesday announced the suspension of evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from ...
READ MORE +By John Owen Nwachukwu An undercover journalist, Umar Audu, has revealed how his degree certificate from a Cotonou-based University in Benin Republic was delivered to him like pizza. DAILY POST reported that Audu got his certificate within six weeks. Audu, in an investigative report titled, ‘How ...
READ MORE +By Ogaga Ariemu The Federal Government, through the Federal Ministry of Education, on Tuesday, announced an 18-numbered banned foreign university in Nigeria. DAILY POST had earlier reported that the federal government announced the suspension of evaluation and accreditation of degree ...
READ MORE +By Francis Ugwu The Federal Government has suspended the evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from Benin and Togo Republic. This is contained in a statement in Abuja on Tuesday by Mrs Augustina Obilor-Duru, Assistant Director, Press, Ministry of Education. This suspension came as ...
READ MORE +Graduating in the First Class category from a university anywhere in the world is not easy to achieve. It means the person must have A passes in all his/ her courses and have 4.50 and above in the Cumulative Grade Point Average, CGPA. But some undergraduates are so endowed that they break the ...
READ MORE +The President, Ekiti Association Houston, United States of America, Pastor Bolu Alabi, has expressed the association’s commitment to promoting the culture of academic excellence in Ekiti State through spurring younger ones. Alabi, who spoke in Ado Ekiti, the Ekiti State capital on Saturday, ...
READ MORE +The House of Representatives, on Thursday, called on the management of the nation’s universities, polytechnics and other tertiary institutions to adopt a semester-based school fee payment model. This, the Reps noted, will ease the difficulties associated with the current session-based system. ...
READ MORE +Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has debunked recent publications insinuating that it had increased its examination registration fee. The board’s public communication advisor (PCA), Dr Fabian Benjamin, in a press statement yesterday, said the cost of obtaining the board’s UTME ...
READ MORE +By Nsikak Nseyen The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, on Monday, increased the registration fee for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME. The exam body made this known in a statement on Monday. It approved the sum of seven thousand, seven hundred naira, (N7,700 ) ...
READ MORE +The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, has urged Nigerian youths to seek demonstrable skills as a means of survival, warning that very soon university degrees would no longer be the sole guarantor in the job market. Oloyede gave the advice on ...
READ MORE +The United Kingdom (UK) plans to deport international students in the country who do not achieve high enough grades. The Telegraph reported that the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, has advised the United Kingdom Migration Advisory Committee to review the graduate visa as part of a five-point plan ...
READ MORE +By Williams Anuku President Bola Tinubu has given a nod for public universities captured in the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, IPPIS, to exit the payment platform. The Minister of Education, Prof. Mamman Tahir, disclosed the information on Wednesday, shortly after the ...
READ MORE +By Priscilla Dennis The National Examinations Council, NECO, has awarded scholarships to a total of 14 best performing candidates in the 2022 and 2023 examinations at all levels across the country. The Registrar/ CEO of NECO, Prof Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi made the disclosure during the Council’s ...
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