Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has acknowledges the significant volume of unusual complaints following the release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results, which were officially published last Friday. In response, the Board is fast forwarding its annual system review—a comprehensive post-mortem…
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By Mobolaji Ajasa Last Thursday, I did something unusual: I kept refreshing the social media pages of the Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (FCCPC), eagerly awaiting the court verdict in its legal standoff with MultiChoice Nigeria, owners of DStv and GOtv. When the post finally dropped, it was triumphant…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has warned that institutions that fail to meet performance benchmarks or mismanage funds risk being delisted from its support programs. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arch. Sonny Echono, stated this at a one-day strategic engagement with heads of institutions, bursars, and heads of…
By Louis Achi The recent laudatory appraisal of Governor Ahmed Aliyu of Sokoto State, focusing on his leadership trajectory by a respected Northern political personality go beyond the governor’s recent deserving, acclamatory recognitions mirrored in the “Best Governor of the Year Award, 2024,” bestowed on him by a major national…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Executive Secretary of Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC), Aisha Garba has unveiled a three-year strategic development plan aimed at repositioning basic education sub-sector in Nigeria. The roadmap, tagged “UBEC 2025–2027 Strategic Blueprint” was officially launched at a two-day Management Retreat held by the Commission in…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has vowed action against sharp practices in its ecosystem, insisting that it was committed to ensuring all its steps were not only audit-compliant but also fraud resistant. The Fund’s declaration came as it partners anti-corruption, military, paramilitary and other relevant agencies on…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has extended his warmest congratulations to the Catholic faithful and Christians worldwide on the election of Pope Leo XIV as the 267th Pontiff of the Catholic Church. In a statement released shortly after…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has officially announced the release of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results. Speaking at a press briefing in Abuja on Friday, Registrar of JAMB, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, revealed that the board withheld the results of 39,834 candidates out of…
Chidimma Uchegbu The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has warned institutions against violating the terms and conditions of the fund’s payments on behalf of students. While NELFUND lacks the statutory power to suspend, remove, or expel erring heads of institutions, it will report any traced illegality to the Minister of…
Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja Nigeria has reaffirmed its resolve to build robust partnerships with Tunisia in energy, technology, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, education, and the creative sectors. This is as it called on investors to leverage the numerous investment opportunities engendered by the business-friendly policies and programmes of the President Bola Ahmed…