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May

2024

Nigerian Students Ordered To Leave UK Over Failure To Complete Payment Of Tuition Fees

Nigerian Students Ordered To Leave UK Over Failure To Complete Payment Of Tuition Fees Some Nigerian students at Teesside University in the United Kingdom (UK) have been ordered to leave the country as they struggled to pay their tuition fees. The BBC reports that the students, who protested on their campus on Tuesday, were asked to leave the European country after the naira plummeted and wiped their savings—the reason they were unable to meet their financial obligations Before they commenced their study at Teesside, the affected students were told they had to show proof of having enough funds to pay…

May

2024

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Only Applicants From Federal Institutions Can Access Students Loans – FG

CBN/Commercial Banking, Education, FGN, News Flash

Only Applicants From Federal Institutions Can Access Student Loans – FG Managing Director of Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), Akintunde Sawyerr, has revealed that a maximum of 1.2 million students across federal tertiary institutions will access the students’ loans in its opening phase. Speaking ahead of the portal’s formal launch for applications on Friday, he stated that students enrolled in federal tertiary institutions whose institutions have finished uploading their data would be able to apply in the first phase. Sawyerr stated that potential candidates can start the application process as early as May 24, but stressed that the loan application…

May

2024

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Govt Shutdown School As Teacher Beat 8-Year-Old Pupil To Coma

Columns/Opinions/Letters, Education, Mishap, News Flash

Govt Shutdown School As Teacher Beat 8-Year-Old Pupil To Coma A 30-year-old teacher has been arrested for allegedly beating an 8-year-old pupil into a coma in Anambra state. The Anambra state government has permanently shut down Landmark School Mgbakwu in the Awka North Local Government Area. The commissioner for Education, Prof. Ngozi Chuma-Udeh, disclosed this to reporters in her office on Monday. She had summoned the school’s proprietor and the teacher involved, Faith Nwonye, to explain the incident that led to the brutalization of the primary two pupils. Speaking shortly after the meeting, Chuma-Udeh explained that the school’s closure was…

May

2024

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

FGN, Education, News Flash

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

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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

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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

Business, Education, News Flash, South East

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…