Education

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday released the results of 15,490 candidates earlier withheld by the board. According to the Nation, the board said it released the results after clearing the candidates of various examination infractions. Recall that JAMB had released the results of 4,536 candidates earlier …

Cash-strapped Zimbabwe announced Wednesday that it plans to build a $1 billion university to honour Robert Mugabe, the 93-year-old president accused of brutal repression and bringing the country to economic ruin. The university joins other facilities named after Mugabe including the government’s school of intelligence, a main street in the …

Human rights attorney Femi Falana has called on the Oyo and Osun State governments to ensure that the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) is reopened without any further delay. The senior advocate made the call on Monday at the memorial symposium held in honor of Professor Funmi Adewunmi at …

  Mike Okeme, the Special Adviser to Delta State Governor Ifeanyi Okowa on Labour Relations and SERVICOM, last Friday escaped being lynched during an election of the state chapter of the Nigerian Union of Teachers (NUT) held at the La-Diva Hotel in Asaba. Okeme, a former state chairman of the Nigeria Labour Congress …

The Management of the state-owned Edo University, Iyamho,(EUI), says the institution was established to essentially cater for academically-endowed students and the wealthy in the society. The Vice Chancellor(VC) of the institution, Prof. Emmanuel Aluyor, told newsmen on Monday, in Iyamho-Uzairue, in the Estako-West local government area of Edo that “the …

Five Kenyan girls are to be flown to Google Headquaters in  California, U.S.A , after inventing “I-cut”, an app to end Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). I-cut connects girls at risk of FGM with rescue centres and gives legal and medical help to those who have been cut. Organisers say the …

  The authorities of Ohovbe Primary School Ikpoba, in Okha Local Government Area of Edo State, watch helplessly as cows invaded their school, disrupted classes and generally sacked pupils and teachers. See the photos:

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has yet to open its portal for candidates in the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination to effect change of course or correction of data, an official has said. The Head of Media and Information of JAMB, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, told the News Agency of Nigeria in …

Ogun State is no pushover among states in Nigeria that have produced great minds in education. Nobel Laureate Prof Wole Soyinka remains one of her living legends. However, the standard of education in the state in recent years has nosedived owing to social decadence among youths, corruption, and compromise of …

The President of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi, has bemoaned the four per cent reduction in the 2017 budget allocation to the education sector. He made the observation on Thursday in Abuja when he paid a courtesy call on the President of the Nigeria Labour …