The Nigerian office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has said the council will no longer use manual confirmation or stamping of certificates of candidates who sat the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) from 1999 till date. This followed the launch of the examination body’s Digital Certificate Platform for a seamless and…
The 2023 Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) earlier scheduled for Thursday, March 16, 2023, has been shifted to Thursday, March 30, 2023. The shift in date was partly owing to the change in the date for the gubernatorial and State House of Assembly elections earlier scheduled to hold on Saturday, March 11, 2023 but…
Chrisland School Ikeja is to stay shut pending further probe of safety risks affecting its students. NAN reports that Folashade Adefisayo, Lagos commissioner for education, revealed this in a statement on Sunday. Whitney Adeniran, a pupil of Chrisland High School in Ikeja, died on February 9 during sports in Agege Stadium. Blessing Adeniran, Whitney’s mother,…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has sacked two of its staff over alleged “gross misconduct”. Fabian Benjamin, JAMB’s head of public affairs and protocol, revealed the identities of the dismissed staff in a statement on Wednesday. JAMB said Bilyaminu Ishaku and Andrew Anebi Candidus were dismissed from the board’s office in Makurdi, Benue…
Shan George has backed her younger colleague, Angela Okorie’s claim that many actresses lie about buying houses from fees they made from acting. Angela who has also been in the game for a while said, all those talk of ‘i bought my house from acting’ is BS. Backing Angela’s claim, Shan George also responded, saying;…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has cancelled UTME registrations of 817 candidates in the country. Is-haq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, broke the news at a meeting with stakeholders on Tuesday. The JAMB boss said the registrations were invalidated over identified infractions bordering on the use of strange biometric fingerprints in the registration…
A National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) member, Jameelat Yusuf, has died in a motor accident in Nasarawa State. The Taraba University graduate, who was serving in Abuja, died in the accident which occurred along Akwanga – Keffi road on Saturday, November 5, 2022. She was buried according rites in Akwanga Local Government Area of Nasarawa on Monday, November…
The Governor of Ebonyi State, Chief David Umahi, has denied saying that university education is not everybody. Recall that Umahi was quoted to have said that university education is not for everybody while speaking about the ongoing industrial action by the Academic Staff of Nigerian Universities, ASUU. The Ebonyi State Governor clarified while fielding questions on…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its ongoing strike again. The decision was taken after the National Executive Council meeting at the union’s headquarters at the University of Abuja on Monday morning, August 29. The ASUU strike began on February 14, 2022, and was initially to last for 4 weeks. However, on…
The Ondo State Government has stated that it is now an offence for public school teachers to enroll their children and wards in private schools. Victor Olabimtan, the Chairman of the Universal Basic Education Board, SUBEB, in the State claimed that the development had led to the declining enrollment in State-run primary schools. In…
