Chidimma UCHEGBU Confluence University of Science and Technology, Osara, Kogi State, has commenced the process of admitting candidates into over 35 undergraduate programmes approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC) at the school. The university, in a statement by its Registrar, Mrs Olufunke Hudson, said also that it has released…
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Chidimma UCHEGBU The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said there is no truth in claims that it has increased the registration fee for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) across the country. Speaking in a statement signed by JAMB’s Public Communication Advisor (PCA), Fabian Benjamin, the board said…
Chidimma UCHEGBU The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), has called on the country’s budgeting agencies to separate the budget of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), from Nigeria’s annual budget to enable effective implementation. ASUU President, Prof Emmanuel Osodoke, made the call at the TETFund Alliance for Innovative Research…
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…
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…