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Chidimma Uchegbu No fewer than 1.8 million candidates who sat for the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held across Nigeria last weekend, scored above 200 as the Point Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) announced release of the resukts. Specifically, JAMB said a total of 1,842,464 candidates secured above 200…

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Chidimma Uchegbu Over 2.5 million students have been enrolled in the Tertiary Education, Research, Applications and Services (TERAS), platform provided by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund. Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc Sonny Echono, disclosed that the platform has excess capacity but public institutions are given the preference of onboarding…

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Chidimma UCHEGBU The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), has said part of the reforms it carried out was to eliminate the use of vendors and contracts in its academic and professional staff training interventions. The fund said contracts were no longer used for its content-based interventions except in infrastructural projects…

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Chidimma UCHEGBU, Abuja A man, who put his age at 40 years, was among the candidates who successfully wrote the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). The fourty years old was sighted at Government Secondary School, Tudun Wada, one of the…

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By Chidimma Uchegbu An educational organisation, Fides Et Ratio Academy, has described as untrue an investigative report published by an online newspaper which alleged that N2.9 billion contract awarded to it by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) was not executed.  Fielding questions from newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja during…

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By Chidimma Uchegbu The Senate Committee on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund said on Tuesday that lawmakers in the upper legislative chamber of the National Assembly would soon amend the aw on the minimum entry age into universities and tertiary institutions in the country. Chairman of the committee, Senator Muntari Dandutse,…

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Chidimma Uchegbu, Abuja The Executive Secretary of Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has been honoured as the patron of the National Association of Christian Religious Educators of Nigeria (NACREN). He was decorated by the National President of the Association, Prof. Reuben Maiture, on Tuesday, 23rd April, 2024.…

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Chidimma UCHEGBU The Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman has indicated plans by the federal government to review age requirement into tertiary institutions in the country to 18 years. The Minister, who gave the hint while monitoring the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Abuja, advised parents against pushing…

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By Chidimma Uchegbu The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), has sanctioned some of its officials for asking a candidate wearing hijab to remove their headcover during the accreditation process before being allowed into the examination hall. JAMB’s Public Communications Advisor, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said in a statement on Sunday…

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Chidimma Uchegbu – Abuja The Executive Secretary Nigerian Christian Pilgrim Commission (NCPC), Bishop Stephen Adegbite, has said that screening of all intending pilgrims for pilgrimage to the holy land is sacrosanct. He made this disclosure in Lagos on Friday, 19th April, 2024 during a courtesy visit to the Consul General…

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