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May

2024

Another ASUU Strike Looms As Union Rejects List Of Governing Board Constituted By FG

Another ASUU Strike Looms As Union Rejects List Of Governing Boards Constituted By FG There are indications that academic activities in Nigeria’s public universities may be grounded again as the academic staff union of universities, ASUU has rejected a list of governing board members recently approved by the federal government. President of ASUU, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, insists the list is illegal and has not addressed the reason it issued a two-week strike notice. On Friday, May 17, 2024, the federal Ministry of Education published a list of appointees as members to the governing boards of 111 federal institutions. But in…

May

2024

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FGN Takes Step To Avert Looming ASUU Strike, Sets Up Committee On Varsities Governing Councils

FGN, Education, News Flash

FG Takes Step To Avert Looming ASUU Strike, Sets Up Committee On Varsities’ Governing Councils Federal government has set up a committee to ensure the reconstitution of the governing councils of 61 federal universities. This came barely a day after the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) gave a two-week ultimatum for the councils to be reconstituted to avoid an industrial action. Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday, ASUU president, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, said Nigerians should hold the federal and state governments responsible if the matter of the governing councils is allowed to snowball into an avoidable industrial…

May

2024

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JAMB Releases Another 36,540 UTME Results

Education, News Flash

JAMB Releases Another 36,540 UTME Results The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released additional 36,540 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results withheld for further investigation. This was in addition to the 531 results released the previous week, bringing the total results released to 1,879,437. This is contained in a statement by the Public Communication Advisor of the Board, Dr Fabian Benjamin on Tuesday in Abuja. The Board also dismissed a letter by an alleged fraudster the outstanding 2024 UTME results, subjected to scrutiny by experts, had been compromised on account of a cyber security breach for which it…

May

2024

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2024 UTME: 174 Deeper Life School Students Score Above 300

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Education, News Flash

174 Deeper Life School Students Score Above 300 Nigerians on social media were in awe on Friday as Deeper Life High School announced that no fewer than 174 students across its campuses nationwide scored 300 and above in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The school in a post via its official handle on Facebook @Deeper Life High School posted the 174 students. “Despite JAMB’s announcement that only around 0.5% of candidates nationwide scored 300 and above in the 2024 UTME, an astounding one hundred and seventy-four (174) students of DLHS exceeded expectations with flying colours by scoring 300 and…

May

2024

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JAMB Releases Additional 531 Results

Education, FGN, News Flash

JAMB Releases Additional 531 Results As promised, the Board is proceeding with the screening of over 64,000 withheld results. It has, however, released additional 531 results taking the total number of results released to 1,842,897. In the course of the exercise, other cases of examination misconduct were also established to make a tally of 92 from the 81 initially discovered. The Board is also looking at cases of unverified candidates and would soon come up with a position. Similarly, the attention of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB) has been drawn to some fallacious publications purporting that an unknown candidate,…

May

2024

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First Lady Celebrates Pioneer Nigerian Female Graduate Of UK Military Academy

Abuja, Education, News Flash, Security

PHOTOS: First Lady Celebrates Pioneer Nigerian Female Graduate Of UK Military Academy First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, on Monday hosted the first female Nigerian graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in the United Kingdom, 2nd Lt Oluchukwu Owowoh. PUNCH reported in April that, at 24 years old, Owowoh joined 134 other Officer Cadets in London for the Sovereign’s Parade, marking the culmination of 44 weeks of rigorous training as part of Commissioning Course 232. In a statement signed on Monday by the Senior Special Assistant to the First Lady on Media, Kukoyi Busola, Mrs Tinubu was said to have commended…

May

2024

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2024 UTME: Pure Water Seller Who Dropped Out 2 Years Ago Scores 309

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2024 UTME: Pure Water Seller Who Dropped Out Two Years Ago Scores 309 A pure water seller, Ugwu Augustus, has reportedly secured a full scholarship into the university after scoring 309 in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. According to Alex Onyia, the founder of Educare, an organisation that prepares candidates for UTME, Augustus left school two years ago. However, he was challenged to join the preparatory class and score above 300 to get a full scholarship. “This youngster from my village, Ugwu Chibuzo Augustus, scored 309 in JAMB. “He left school two years ago and has been selling pure…

May

2024

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ASUU Begins Indefinite Strike

Abuja, Education, FGN, News Flash

The University of Abuja branch of the Academic Staff Union of Universities has begun an indefinite strike to draw attention to developments bordering the union. The union announced its decision to embark on the strike on Thursday at the end of its congress, held at the Permanent Site of the institution. Members of the UniAbuja ASUU have been at loggerheads with the outgoing Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Abdulrasheed Na’allah and the Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman over the processes for the appointment of a new VC. An advertorial that surfaced in a national daily on March 15, 2024, sought a replacement…

Apr

2024

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JAMB Releases 2024 UTME Results

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JAMB Releases 2024 UTME Results The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has announced the release of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, results. Reports have it that over 1.94 million candidates registered and sat the examination in 118 towns and over 700 centres across the country. While announcing the results in Bwari, Abuja, on Monday, the Registrar of JAMB, Prof Ishaq Oloyede, said a total of 1,989,668 candidates registered for the examination, representing 24.7 per cent higher than the figure for the year 2023. He noted that of the 1,989,668 registered, 1,904,189 were present and verified, 2,899 were…

Apr

2024

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American International School Refunds $760,910 Of Bello Children’s Fees To EFCC

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American International School Refunds $760,910 Bello Children’s Fees To EFCC The American International School of Abuja has paid the sum of $760,910.84 allegedly deposited by the embattled former governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bello, to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). Bello was said to have deposited the sum of $845,852 to the school in respect of five of his children. The EFCC is persecuting Bello for allegedly defrauding Kogi State to the tune of N80.2 billion. EFCC chairman, Ola Olukoyede, had accused Bello of stealing the sum paid to school from Kogi government account. Bello had denied the…