Education

JAMB Registrar Prof Ishaq Oloyede has constituted a taskforce on foreign students in order to coordinate the admission of foreign candidates who had taken the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) into Nigerian tertiary institutions.   The constitution of the task force may not be unconnected to the desire of the federal government to internationalise the nation’s tertiary institutions to make them Read More

The Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) has attracted funding amounting to over N10 billion in 2021 through various grants for infrastructure development across the University, the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Kabiru Bala, has disclosed. He made the disclosure at the University’s 80th (Ordinary) meeting of Congregation, stresing that efforts were being made to secure more grants for the University this year. The Congregation, Read More

The National Teachers Institute (NTI) has matriculated 18,367 unqualified teachers from Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states (BAY states) for retraining under its emergency teacher retraining programme, just as Minister of Education harped on teachers’ professional development. The Education Minister, Malam Adamu Adamu, reiterated the ministry’s commitment to establish a robust teacher professional development and recruitment system and strengthen leadership capacity Read More

The management of Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has raised the alarm on activities of frausters camouflaging as its agents with the aim of duping stakeholders in education and unsuspecting members of the public. The methods  the fraudsters used  include fraudulent claims of payment of grants to Nigerian students; recruitment and forgery of special intervention approval letters addressed to heads Read More

The board chairman, Kogi state College of Education (Technical), Kabba, Dr. Peter Tukura, has commended the Kogi state governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, for his achievements in the educational sector. Tukura in a statement issued by his media aide, Comrade Emmanuel Daudu, on Monday, particularly thanked the governor for ‘his special interest’ in the college. .  “… As for the best leaders, the Read More

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has called on alltertiary institutions in Nigeria to expedite action on the completionof the 2021 admission processes. JAMB authorities said the call became necessary following thenegligible number of fully-processed 2021 admissions on the CentralAdmissions Processing System (CAPS) out of the teeming population ofeligible candidates who possessed the requisite qualificationsyearning for admission. According to Read More

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned the general public to stay away from mischief makers  who are out to create panic  by misleading stakeholders that the board had begun the sale of UTME/DE forms. This warning was contained in a statement signed by JAMB’s head of protocol and publicity, Dr  Fabian Benjamin, Thursday, and made available to Blueprint. Read More

The registrar, Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has been honoured by Item Development Association (IDA) with Diamond Excellence Award.   According to the Board’s weekly magazine, JAMBULLETIN, published on Monday, the award was based on Prof. Oloyede’s sterling leadership style. “In recognition of the sterling leadership qualities of the registrar, the Item Development Association (IDA) had, on Read More

Authorities of the University of Ilorin Monday began enforcement of the ban of learner drivers and unregistered vehicles from gaining access into it’s campuses. The university took the stiff decision following Tuesday December 7, 2021 accident that claimed the lives of four members of a family and a student of the institution. The incident threw the university community into grief Read More

Nuradeen Abdu has been appointed as the new registrar for Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) Nasarawa state. Until his appointment, he was the academic secretary of the Ahmadu Bello University (ABU) Zaria, Kaduna state. His appointment was announced by the chairman of the governing council Prof. Mumzali Jibrin on Thursday, during the 17th regular meeting of the governing council in Read More

The National Universities Commission (NUC) weeked announced that it has so far uncovered 67 illegal universities, satellite campuses and centers operating across Nigeria.NUC Executive Secretary, Prof Abubakar Rasheed, announced this at the 11th convocation ceremony of Al- Hikmah university Ilorin.To this end, he said the commission was developing a new Benchmark Minimum Academic Standard (BMAS) for universities in the country Read More

The Director-General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brig.-Gen. Shuaibu Ibrahim, has reiterated the need for the establishment of a trust fund for provision of start-up capital for corps members to advance their business ideas and grow the Nigerian economy. Ibrahim made the call in Sagamu, Ogun state while inaugurating a skill acquisition centre at the NYSC orientation camp. The Read More