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, ...

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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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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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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. ...

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 ...

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 ) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

By Joe Chukindi Nigeria President, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has said that his government is working hard to stop industrial actions in universities across the country. Tinubu, who was represented at the 17th convocation ceremony of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, by the Director of Tertiary ...

The Federal Government had voted N50bn in the 2024 budget for the implementation of its student loan scheme. This was contained in the details of the 2024 budget appropriation. Meanwhile, details of how the loan scheme, unveiled by President Bola Tinubu in June, would be implemented remains ...

By Esther Ogenyi The Vice Chancellor of the University of Calabar, Prof. Florence Obi, has directed that the increased fees be suspended until further notice. The decision is contained in a statement issued on Monday by the university’s Registrar, Mr Gabriel Egbe, and made available to ...

By Francis Ugwu Protests have broken out at the University of Calabar (UNICAL) over a hundred percent increase in the university’s tuition fees for undergraduates. The students gathered at the Malabor Square which houses the Students Union Government secretariat and from there moved to the female ...

By Deborah Tolu-Kolawole The Federal Government has yet to release the withheld salaries of university lecturers, workers, and other employees of federal polytechnics and colleges of education despite the waiver granted by the President, Bola Tinubu, checks by Sunday PUNCH have revealed. Tinubu ...

By Matthew Atungwu Mr Mansur Alfanla, Registrar of the University of Ilorin has said that male university staff will now be granted paternity leave. Alfanla, who revealed this in Ilorin while chatting with journalists, said it is in the university’s recently amended Conditions of Service. He ...

By Matthew Atungwu The 10th National Assembly has seen 32 measures in the Senate and House of Representatives to establish new universities, polytechnics, and institutions of education. However, the Academic Staff Union of Universities and other experts cautioned the government against ...

By Matthew Atungwu Universities in Nigeria are facing a severe staff crisis as hundreds of teachers leave to seek greener pastures in foreign countries despite a high number of retirements at the varsities. In separate interviews with newsmen on Sunday, the Academic Staff Union of Universities ...