The Lagos State Government’s EKOEXCEL initiative has transformed public primary education in the State, impacting over 500,000 pupils across 1,013 schools. This is as the world celebrates the 2024 International Day for Women and Girls in Science, with the theme, ...
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The Registrar of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Isiaq Oloyede, on Saturday, warned prospective students seeking admissions into tertiary institutions across the country to ensure that the letters of provisional admission handed over to them are genuine ...
Read More »15.9m Students Spend N159bn On Mobile Data Monthly
Nigerians students in senior secondary schools and undergraduates in various Nigeria’s higher institutions are spending an estimated N159 billion cumulatively on mobile phone data monthly, LEADERSHIP checks have shown. According to available data, there are an average of 13.9million students ...
Read More »Again, Student Loan Misses January Deadline
Disappointment has continued among students and parents over the delayed launch of the student loan scheme, despite assurance from the federal government that it will commence disbursement of the education loans in January 2024. The student loan, which was anticipated ...
Read More »WAEC Begins Computer-based Examination Tomorrow, Wednesday
West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has revealed that it is set to conduct its first computer based examination, West African Senior School Certificate Examination (CB-WASSCE) from Wednesday, January 31 and will end on Saturday, February 17, 2024. This was disclosed ...
Read More »Kano To Support Indigent Students In Federal Varsities
Kano State government has expressed its readiness to support indigent students in federal universities. The state commissioner for higher education, Dr Yusuf Ibrahim Kofarmata, made the disclosure when he received the Kwankwasiyya Students Forum recently in his office. Kofarmata stated ...
Read More »Court Sends Suspended UNICAL Professor, His Lawyer To Kuje Prison
A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Thursday, ordered the remand of Prof. Cyril Ndifon, the suspended Dean of the Faculty of Law at the University of Calabar (UNICAL), in the Kuje Correctional Centre. Justice James Omotosho also ordered the ...
Read More »NMC, UBEC Train Teachers Students In Mental Arithmetic
The National Mathematical Centre (NMC), in collaboration with the Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), trained about 140 teachers and students in mental arithmetic to enhance their cognitive abilities. The Director/Chief Executive of NMC, Prof. Promise Mebine, made this known at ...
Read More »Kogi Gov’t Clears JAMB Registration Fees For 15,000 Public School Students
The Kogi State Government, in line with its free education policy under the outgoing Governor Yahaya Bello, has released the sum of one hundred and fifteen million Naira (N115,000,000) to cover the cost of JAMB Registration fees for 15,033 students ...
Read More »Intervene In Tuition Fee Hikes, NANS, Others Urge FG
The National Association of Nigerian Students and some rights activists have called on the federal and state governments to immediately look into the recent hike in tuition fees in federal and state universities across the country and find sustainable ways ...
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