Key education stakeholders have stressed the urgent need for sincere commitment and attention from both national and sub-national governments to foster significant development in the education sector in 2024. Reflecting on the preceding year and looking forward to the New ...
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Feed SubscriptionJAMB Hikes UTME Fees For 2024, Releases DE Application Schedule
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced an adjustment in the registration fees for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for the year 2024. According to an official statement by JAMB, the revised registration fees for UTME are ...
Read More »How To Keep New Year Resolutions
CHOOSE A SPECIFIC GOAL Every year, millions of adults resolve to “lose weight,” “be more productive,” or “get in shape” during the next year.1 Instead of selecting such an ambiguous goal, focus on something more concrete. PUT TIME INTO PLANNING ...
Read More »Thirteen Zamfara Undergraduates, Corpers Spend Christmas In Bandits’ Den
As the world celebrates Christmas Day today, 11 out of the 24 students of the Federal University Gusau in Zamfara State, who were kidnapped by bandits on September 20, remain in captivity. Also, two corps members who were kidnapped on ...
Read More »Brokers Grant N15.3m Insurance Covers To Winners Of Quiz Competition
Insurance brokers under the auspices of the Nigerian Council of Registered Insurance Brokers (NCRIB) Lagos Area Committee(LAC) have procured and donated School Fees Protection Plan and Kiddies Insurance, tagged School Care Cover amounting to N15.3 million to winners of its ...
Read More »Best Students Get N1.6m From US Group
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 ...
Read More »Varsity Workers Differ On Centralised Payment System
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has appealed to the government to consider the use of an improved version of University Peculiar Personnel and Payroll System (U3PS) as a payment solution for both SSANU and Non-Academic Staff Union ...
Read More »Fubara Vows To Make Rivers Varsity Top Institution, Boosts Funding
Governor Siminalayi Fubara of Rivers State has pledged continuous financial assistance to bolster the capacity of the state-owned university, aiming to elevate its status to one of the country’s premier academic institutions. Speaking at the 35th convocation ceremony of the ...
Read More »INTEGRATED PAYMENT SYSTEM… Federal Govt Placates Lecturers, Takes Varsities, Others Off IPPIS
…Institutions can now handle staff remunerations We’re not excited, will wait for confirmation – ASUU 686 civil servants’ salaries stopped over unverified records The federal government has approved the exemption of universities, polytechnics, colleges of education and other tertiary institutions ...
Read More »Foundation Gives N5m Aids To Ailing NOUN Student
A non-governmental organisation, Impact and Inspire Wuraolami Foundation, has rendered assistance worth more than N5million and a job opportunity to a student of National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN), Akinwale Akinbode, who is down with kidney disease, just as it ...
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