Peter Hawkins, the United Nations Children Fund’s (UNICEF) representative in Kano State, says no fewer than one million children are out of school in the state. Hawkins said this on Monday in Kano during a four-day workshop organised for Commissioners and Permanent Secretaries from the 19 Northern States. The workshop …
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The University of Lagos, UNILAG has fixed Aug. 1 to Aug. 21 for application for its post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (Post-UTME) screening into all courses/programmes for the 2019/2020 academic year. This was contained in a statement issued by the Registrar, Mr Oladejo Azeez, on Saturday. According to the university, only …
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A total of 4,795 more female candidates did better than boys in the 2019 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, released on Friday by the West African Examinations Council, WAEC. However, more boys (822,098) sat for the examination than girls who were 768,075. Olu Adenipekun, the Head of National …
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has resolved to reconfirm the biometrics of all candidates that sat for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board made this known in its Vol. 1, No 27 weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar, made available to the News Agency …
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Justice Ladiran Akintola of an Oyo State High Court 9 sitting in Ibadan, the state capital, on Tuesday struck out a fundamental human right suit challenging the refusal of the University of Ibadan (UI) International School, to allow female Muslim students wear Hijab on their school uniforms. DAILY POST recalls …
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The management of the Plateau State University Bokkos has suspended three security operatives of the university for what it described as “negligence of duty” following the recent invasion of one of the female hostels during which a student was killed with a female student left unconscious after being raped. The …
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The National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) in Ondo State on Wednesday denied the news making the rounds that 10 of its corps members were kidnapped in the state. Mr Bankole Simeone, the NYSC Public Relations Officer in the state said this in a statement in Akure, NAN reports. “The attention …
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB) yesterday arrested one Adah Eche for fraudulently upgrading his scores in the recent Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME) from 153 to 290. Eche, 19, allegedly engaged some fraudsters through Facebook and Whatsapp platforms, having come across an advertisement that claimed to upgrade 2019 …
Read More »The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) on Wednesday lauded President Muhammadu Buhari for signing the Polytechnic Act Amendment Bill into law. It’s National President, Mr Usman Dutse, spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Wednesday, while reacting to the signing of the bill into law …
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A 100-level student of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Ogbomoso, has been confirmed dead after he slumped during an athletic exercise session at the school’s sports complex. The undergraduate identified as Moyosore Abdul Akinde, a student in the Department of Biochemistry was said to have slumped during a slow …
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