Chidimma UCHEGBU The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Ishaq Oloyede, has called for the review of relevant civil service laws to address the lacuna bothering the death of staff on the eve of retirement. Oloyede made the call in Bwari, Abuja at the retirement ceremony…
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Chidimma UCHEGBU The National Examinations Council (NECO) has expressed its readiness to totally root out incidents of exam malpractice in all its examinations. Registrar /Chief Executive of NECO, Professor Ibrahim Dantani Wushishi, who made this known at a one-day sensitization workshop on examination malpractice, on Monday in Uyo, Akwa Ibom…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Federal Government of Nigeria, Monday, unveiled a new curriculum for university education to reflect the 21st-century realities. Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, who spoke on Monday during an event to mark the 60th anniversary of the National Universities Communication (NUC), where the curriculum was unveiled, said the document…
Chidimma UCHEGBU For Nigeria to achieve the desired progress as a knowledge-based economy, there must be a deliberate effort at bringing Research and Development to the center stage through relevant policy implementation. The Executive Secretary of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Arc Sonny Echono, gave the charge recently while delivering…
Chidimma UCHEGBU Nigeria’s Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, has called on examination and assessment Agencies in the country to adopt ICT in tackling the menace of examination malpractices and build a multi-dimensional approach to address the menace. The minister made the call in Lagos State while declaring open a one-day…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has been awarded the ICT Gold Merit Award by the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) in recognition of the Fund’s contributions to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the country, such as the Thesis Digitization Project embarked upon by the agency for the…
Nasir El-Rufai, who they seem to have issues with, is not on the ballot. Southern Kaduna should and can do business with the APC governorship candidate, Uba Sani like Isaiah Balat did with Makarfi which laid the foundation for the several appointments the area enjoyed. By Danjuma Musa It is…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The National Examination Council (NECO) has said it received 490 requests from 50 countries to authenticate its results. NECO Registrar, Prof. Ibrahim Wushishi, disclosed this at a one-day retreat on the State of Education in Nigeria organised by the Education Correspondent Association of Nigeria (ECAN) in Abuja on…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Arch. Sonny Echono has urged the Research and Development Standing Committee (RSDC) to design an agenda that can fast-track the research process in Nigeria. Echono stated this when he met with the leadership of the Committee, led by its chairman,…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Girls’ Education Programme Phase 3 (GEP3) has formally come to an end after attracting no fewer than 1.5 million girls to school in its 10 years of existence in Nigeria. The programme, which was initiated in response to the low enrolment of girls in school in the…