Education

The Kogi state Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Mr Wemi Jones, has called on old boys associations of secondary schools in the state to support and contribute their quota toward the development of education in their alma maters. Hon. Jones made the call on Tuesday at Our Lady of Schools (OLS), Anyigba, Dekina local government area of Kogi state Read More

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Benin (UNIBEN) chapter has discribed the half salaries paid lecturers for October by the Federal government as an onslaught against intellectuals. The association also claimed the Federal government’s action was aimed at demoralising workforce in the universities and to prepare the ground for eventual destruction of the system. The chairman of Read More

Executive Vice Chairman/Chief Executive National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) Prof. Mohammad Haruna has urged the National Universities Commission (NUC), the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) and the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE) to review the curriculum for entrepreneurship courses to address the nation’s unemployment crisis. Haruna said graduates “are jobless because of misalignment between products of Read More

The registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, has issued strict advisory on the application of henna, (Laili in Hausa) and appropriate dress code ahead of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME ). According to a statement made available to Blueprint Monday by JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, Prof. Oloyede warned Read More

The class of 92, Faculties of Arts and Education, University of Lagos, is set to celebrate 30 years (Pearl Anniversary) of graduation/ reunion from the prestigious citadel of learning on the 5th November, 2022. According to its Honourary Public Relations Advisor of the set of 92 Michael Umogun, the reunion would bring the former course-mates from all over the world Read More

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) said wrong subject combination is one of the major reasons many candidates cannot secure admission into higher institutions of learning to pursue courses of their choice. This was disclosed to Blueprint Monday by JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol in a statement credited to the board’s l zonal coordinator in Ogun state, Read More

Barely a month after President Mohammadu Buhari honoured the registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, with national honours of the Commander of the Order of  Niger (CON), the president has again conferred a special award on him,  namely the Distinguished Award for Education. JAMB’s Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed Read More

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and office of Accountant General of the Federation have agreed a timeline of three months to co-opt University Transparency and Accountability Solutions (UTAS) into the Integrated Personnel Payroll Information System(IPPIS). The agreement was reached on Monday, before Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, during a resumed meeting over the disagreement Read More

The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has said that 64 per cent of Nigerian children between 0 and five years of age do not attend Early Childhood Education (ECE), which according to the global body was a critical foundation for all forms of child learning experiences. UNICEF Education Specialist Yetunde Oluwatosin, made this known Thursday in Sokoto at a two-day Read More

The National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) has matriculated fourteen inmates of the Nigeria Correctional Center, Ibara Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital, into different degree programs. Speaking at the matriculation ceremony, the representative of the Vice Chancellor, Dr. Olusegun Obaadesegun, congratulated the new intakes as the navigates the largest community of open and distance learning in higher education in West Read More

The Vice Chancellor, Nnamdi Azikiwe University (NAU), Professor Charles Esimone, Monday, regretted that his ambition to see the citadel of learning rank number one position in Nigeria and 200 in the world was frustrated by the eight months strike embarked by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The Chairman of the Nigerian Universities Ranking Advisory Committee (NURAC), Professor Emeritus Read More