By Abdulrazaq Adebayo The Authorities of the Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, have approved the immediate withdrawal of the Higher National Diploma Certificate of AbdulRasheed Zubair Olatunji of the Public Administration Department of the institution for his alleged involvement in cultism. This ...

Jibola, the son of popular Fuji singer, Wasiu Alabi Pasuma, has graduated as the best student with a 4.20 GPA from a high school, Harlan Community Academy, in the United States. He shared pictures from the graduation ceremony on his Instagram account on Friday and wrote, “#1 Valedictorian, ...

The National Industrial Court, has upheld the no work no pay policy by the Federal Government in the suit filed against the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). According to the court, the no work no pay rule enforced by the Federal Government against members of ASUU who went on strike ...

NIGERIAN researchers have developed four prototype innovations to address the challenges of hunger, poverty, quality education, responsible consumption and production in the country. The prototypes were developed by lecturers from public higher institutions, under the Research for Impact (R4i), ...

A dormitory blaze that killed 19 children in Guyana was set by a teenage student who was upset that her cell phone had been taken away, officials say. The fire broke out at the Mahdia Secondary School in the South American country late on Sunday. A statement from the Guyana Fire and Rescue ...

Students of secondary schools in Lagos state have appealed to the state government to include Robotics Science in their school curriculum as it is now being done worldwide in order to meet up with the trend in the education system the world over. The students made the appeal during the road show ...

By Francis Ezediuno Governor Ademola Adeleke of Osun State has approved the dissolution of Osun State University, UNIOSUN Governing Council. The information conveying the dissolution was contained in a statement signed by the Osun State Head of Service, Samuel Ayanleye Aina, on Thursday, May 19, ...

By John Owen Nwachukwu Aisha Buhari, Wife of the President has said the First Family always treats Corps members serving in Daura, Katsina State, to a presidential reception during Sallah festivities. The First Lady said this in her address at the launch of the medical outreach under the NYSC ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has reappointed Chief Emeka Ngige (SAN) as Chairman of the Council of Legal Education (CLE). Aside from the 36 state Attorneys-General, the newly reconstituted council, which will be inaugurated at Abuja today, also has 17 Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) nominees as ...

By Williams Anuku Despite complaints of proliferation of universities in Nigeria, the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has approved the licensing of 37 new universities in the country. Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, revealed the information ...

By Seun Opejobi The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said it will provide the necessary support to ensure that Nigerian students evacuated from Sudan are integrated into the nation’s universities. Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, spoke while hosting the Chairman of ...

Rev. Fr. Christian Anieke, the Vice-Chancellor of Godfrey Okoye University (GOU), Enugu, has announced a full scholarship for the overall best student in the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UMTE), along with a full scholarship to study at the Godfrey Okoye College of Medicine. The ...

The University of Benin (UNIBEN) has released the Post UTME screening form for the 2023/2024 academic session. This article provides information on the date for UNIBEN Post UTME 2023/2024, how to apply for the screening form online, and the requirements for the screening exercise. Before ...

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By Wale Odunsi The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) is set to conduct its 2023 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). The Head of WAEC National Office, Patrick Areghan addressed the media on Thursday in Lagos and confirmed the examination has been scheduled for ...

Professor Josiah Ajiboye, the Registrar of Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN), has revealed that approximately 70% of teachers in private schools in the South West of Nigeria lack the necessary qualifications to teach children in classrooms. Ajiboye made this statement during the ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the results of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), which was conducted last week. According to JAMB, a total of 1,586,765 candidates sat for the exam across its 708 CBT centres in 105 examination towns in ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is an entrance examination board for tertiary-level institutions in Nigeria. Every candidate who takes the examination is assigned a unique JAMB registration number. There are several methods for checking your JAMB result using your mobile phone, ...

The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, in Sudan, has said all Nigerian students stranded in the war-racked North African country had been evacuated from the country’s capital, Khartoum to the Egyptian border. The Public Relations Officer of the association, Amal Pantami, who ...

The University of Calabar (UNICAL) is set to confer honorary degrees on three distinguished Nigerians, including former President Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, at its 35th convocation ceremony. The Vice Chancellor of UNICAL, Prof. Florence Obi, stated that the recognition is in appreciation of the immense ...

According to SaharaReporters, two Nigerian students who were stranded in Sudan due to the ongoing war in the Northeast African country have claimed that they were extorted during the evacuation process. On April 29, the Nigerian government provided an additional six buses to the International ...

According to a statement by Fabian Benjamin, the spokesperson for the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), results for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will be released on Tuesday, May 2, 2023. In addition, candidates who were not able to sit for the ...

By Joseph Erunke ABUJA –THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board,JAMB,said it would rescheduled candidates who failed to write the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination,UTME. The board,in a statement on Monday morning, announced that all candidates, who could not sit the 2023 ...

By Francis Ugwu Famous Nigerian Catholic priest, Rev Fr Chinenye Oluoma has accused Nigerians, especially the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, of exhibiting wrong attitude, saying it hinders progress and development. Oluoma, in a video posted on his verified Facebook page ...

By Seun Opejobi The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said about 947,000 candidates sat for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, within the last two days. The figure was disclosed by JAMB’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, after monitoring the ongoing UTME ...

By Racheal Ayodele The Federal Executive Council, FEC, has approved N32.4 billion for the completion of the national library headquarters in Abuja. The national library has been under construction since 2006, with the project gulping billions of naira. The minister of state for education, ...

By Chika Onyesi The learning poverty among children in basic schools in Nigeria has persisted despite the touted investment in the education sector by the political class. There are no indications of an improvement in the World Bank study that found 70% of Nigerian children in basic school unable ...

By Racheal Ayodele Ahead of the 2023 national census exercise, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has postponed the continuation of its ongoing Direct Entry, DE registration. Announcing the postponement in a statement made available to DAILY POST on Sunday, the board Head of ...

The management of Ladoke Akintola University (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso in Oyo State, has banned students from driving or bringing cars to the campus. This was contained in a memo issued by the Registrar of the institution, Kayode Ogunleye, on Wednesday. DAILY POST has also sighted a copy of the ...

By Joseph Erunke ABUJA –Results of the over 84,000 candidates who sat for rescheduled Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME mock examination held yesterday have been released. The candidates wrote the rescheduled examination in 387 centres across the country. The Joint ...

The incoming administration of the president-elect, Bola Tinubu will inherit the lingering crisis between the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, and the Federal Government as the union’s demands are yet to be met, DAILY POST gathered. Recall that the union had in 2022, shut down ...

By Omeiza Ajayi No fewer than 17 heads and senior leaders of top schools in the United Kingdom will be visiting Nigeria next month as part of the “UK Boarding Schools Week” fair. The delegation is expected to meet with Nigerian families anxious to see their wards receive education in London. ...

Governor Babagana Zulum of Borno State has extended the retirement age of teachers in the state by five years. This was contained in a circular from the Borno State Teaching Service Board signed by the Permanent Secretary, Malam Yusuf Garga. ”The attention of ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) has announced that Tuesday, 18th April, 2023, will be the date for the rescheduled 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) mock examination. JAMB also announced that it has brought forward the conduct of its 2023 UTME, which ...

The Federal Government has emphasised commitment to work with stakeholders in the education sector to unravel the mysteries in mathematics and make it attractive to students. The government said although students view Mathematics as a difficult subject in school, efforts are ongoing to create ...

The Nigerian Government has approved N320,345,040, 835 as the 2023 intervention funds for public tertiary education institutions in Nigeria. From the 2023 intervention cycle, each university would receive N1,154,732,133.00; Polytechnic would get N699,344,867.00, and college of Education would ...

The West African Examinations Council WAEC has announced the result of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, for Private Candidates, 2023–First Series. According to the Head of the National Office WAEC, Nigeria Patrick E. Areghan, of the total number of Eight Thousand, ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, Taraba State University chapter on Friday, announced a comprehensive and indefinite strike action. The action followed approval by the ASUU national to the state branch to commence the strike action to press home its demands and the state ...

The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Dr. Hamid Bobboyi, has decried the rising case of cultism and other social vices in the nation’s basic education system.He attributed the ugly development to the degeneration of moral values that have been overturned ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Thursday directed that notification slips for candidates who had registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination optional mock-UTME scheduled for Thursday, March 30, 2023, would be ready for printing from Thursday, March 23, 2023. ...

The West African Examination Council, Nigeria, has said its newly unveiled Educational Statistics platform has the database of over 50 million candidates who have been tested over the years. Speaking on Wednesday at the unveiling of the EDUSTAT, Head of Nigeria Office, Mr Patrick Areghan, ...

By  Deborah Tolu-Kolawole The 2023 mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, earlier scheduled for Thursday, March 16, 2023, has been shifted to Thursday, March 30, 2023, The PUNCH reports. The shift in date is partly due to the change in date for the gubernatorial and state Houses of ...

Governor Ifeanyi Okowa has approved 65 years as the retirement age for teaching and non-teaching staff in Delta public schools. The approval covers civil servants working in polytechnics and colleges of education run by the state government. The government also approved 40 years as the length ...

Administrative and academic workers of Ambrose Alli University, Ekpo­ma, Edo State, on Wednesday, continued their protest in the university to express grievances over the non-payment of their salaries. The protest had began on Monday, February 20, 2023. The workers also alleged maladministration, ...

The Founder and Chancellor of Afe Babalola University, Ado-Ekiti, ABUAD, Aare Afe Babalola, SAN, has condemned the closure of all universities in Nigeria by the Minister of Education, Mallam Adamu Adamu, as directed by the Executive Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, Prof ...

By Francis Ugwu The National Examinations Council, NECO, has announced the release of the result of the November/December 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE. Registrar of NECO, Prof Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, who made the announcement in Minna, Niger State, on Thursday, ...

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB on Wednesday announced the extension of its 2023 UTME registration exercise by one week. A statement issued by LAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, said the development takes effect from Wednesday, February 15 to February ...

By  Bola Bamigbola Some teachers employed by the immediate administration of Adegboyega Oyetola in Osun State staged a peaceful protest on Monday in Osogbo, asking Governor Ademola Adeleke to reconsider his decision to disengage them. It would be recalled that about 1,500 teachers recruited into ...

The Lagos State government has ordered the closure of Chrisland School in Opebi, Ikeja, after the death of a student, Whitney Adeniran. Commissioner for Education, Folasade Adefisayo on Sunday said the school would remain shut pending the outcome of a full inquiry. The official commiserated ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has condemned the directive of the National Universities Commissions to the Committee of Vice-Chancellors of Nigerian Universities that universities should be shut to enable students to participate in the forthcoming general elections. The NUC gave the ...