Chidimma UCHEGBU No fewer than 74,819 candidates have registered to participate in the 2023 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for external candidates nationwide. The Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO, Prof. Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi disclosed this on Saturday while monitoring the examination at Government Science Secondary School Gombe, Gombe State. Prof. Wushishi…
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Chidimma UCHEGBU The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said that the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to qualify students for admission into universities across the country in 2024 will hold in the month of April. Specifically, it said the examination will hold between April 19 and April 29,…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, Monday, disclosed that Nigeria has over 45 million children currently enrolled in its basic education system. Executive Secretary of UBEC, Dr Hamid Boboyyi, disclosed this at a One-Day Meeting on Promoting Partnership with the Organised Private Sector, in Abuja. Boboyyi said despite…
Chidimma UCHEGBU No fewer than 15,750 teachers have sat for the November Diet of the Professional Qualifying Examination for teachers across the country. The examination is conducted by the Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) to test the professional knowledge of those in the teaching profession. Speaking with newsmen during…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The leadership of the College of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has commended President Bola Tinubu for suspending the policy requiring tertiary institutions in the country to remit 40 percent of the internally generated revenue to the federation account. The Union, which had said the policy was retrogressive,…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Federal Government says the full deployment of blackboard digital learning platforms in Nigerian tertiary institutions would go a long way to fast-track the educational development of the country. Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, made this known on Thursday while receiving in his office a delegation of…
Achilleus-Chud Uchegbu As a student at Lagos Business School (LBS), prior to its transformation into Pan African University later renamed Pan Atlantic University, I encountered a great Nigerian, a role model, and a teacher who once served Nigeria as its High Commissioner to the United Kingdom. One thing about him…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The President of the Nigerian Academy of Letters (NAL), Professor Sola Akinrinade, has lamented the decline in the quality of entrants into the Nigerian University System, and says urgent intervention is needed to stem this worrying tide. Prof. Akinrinade made this statement on Tuesday at a policy review…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Colleges of Education Academic Staff Union (COEASU) has said that the order of the federal government directing Colleges of Education to remit 40 percent of their internally generated revenue (IGR) to the federal purse was retrogressive and destructive. This is contained in a statement signed by Dr.…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Nigeria National Office of the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has said that it has concluded plans to migrate its WASSCE for Private Candidates Examination Diets from written test to Computer Based Examination (CBE). This, WAEC said in a statement by its Acting Head of Public Affairs,…