Education

JAMB Releases 2024 UTME Results

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

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

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…

Apr

2024

EFCC Writes Abuja School To Refund $845,000 Yahaya Bello Paid For Child’s School Fees

Crime, Education, News Flash

EFCC Writes Abuja School To Refund $845,000 Yahaya Bello Paid For Child’s School Fees The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), has requested the American International School, Abuja, to refund the sum of $845,000 allegedly paid by former Kogi State governor, Yahaya Bello for his son who is a student of the prestigious school. Chairman of the anti-corruption agency, Ola Olukoyede, at a press briefing on Tuesday, had revealed how the embattled former governor had withdrawn $720,000 from the state’s coffers to pay his child’s school fees. Also, the antigraft agency has also declared the former Governor wanted after evading…

Apr

2024

Abuja British School: Father Of Bullied Girl Namtira Speaks, Make 2 Demands

Abuja British School: Father of Bullied Girl Namtira Speaks, Makes 2 Demands to the School Namtira Bwala's father has finally broken silence on the bullying incident that involved his daughter The man, who spoke in the presence of the minister of women affairs, urged the management of Lead British International School to take decisive action on the matter In a trending video on social media, the displeased father made two demands to the school's management The father of Namtira Bwala has called on the management of Lead British International School, Abuja, to take decisive action on the bullying incident. In…

Apr

2024

FG Sets 18 Years As Minimum Entry Age Into Tertiary Institutions

Education, FGN, News Flash

FG Sets 18 Years As Minimum Entry Age Into Tertiary Institutions The federal government has directed that admission to tertiary institutions should not be given to candidates less than 18 years old. The Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman, gave the directive on Monday during a monitoring exercise of the ongoing 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in Bwari, Federal Capital Territory He decried the activities of some parents pressuring their underage students to get admission into tertiary institutions. The minister said the 18-year benchmark is in line with the 6-3-3-4 education system. “The minimum age of entry into the university…

Apr

2024

Why I Killed ABSU Student, Emmanuel Uche – Suspected Cultist Confesses

Abia State, Crime, Education, News Flash

Why I Killed ABSU Student, Emmanuel Uche – Suspected Cultist Confesses Emmanuel Victor, the suspect in the viral video depicting the killing of a student of Abia State University Uturu (ABSU), Emmanuel Uche, last March, has confessed why he killed the victim. Victor stated this while being paraded alongside 110 others in Umuahia on Sunday by the Abia State Command of the Nigeria Police. When asked by newsmen, the suspect said, “I am here because I committed murder. I actually killed Emmanuel Uche,” stating that he is from Mbaitolu in Imo State and based in Port Harcourt. “I am a…

Apr

2024

2024 UTME: JAMB Sanctions Official For Directing Muslim Candidate To Pull Hijab

2024 UTME: JAMB Sanctions Official For Directing Muslim Candidate To Pull Hijab The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has sanctioned one of its officials in Lagos for directing a female candidate to remove her hijab before entering the examination hall. This came as JAMB said the conduct of the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, which commenced on Friday, 19th April, 2024, “had been seamless as over 1.2 million candidates would have successfully taken the examination by Monday.” Report had emerged that a candidate donning hijab was asked to remove her headcover during the accreditation process before being allowed…

Apr

2024

We Are Not Just Any School – Charterhouse Defends N42m Fee For Primary School Students

We Are Not Just Any School – Charterhouse Defends N42m Fee For Primary School Students The management of the Charterhouse, a newly established school in Lekki, Lagos has revealed why the school charged N42m as fee per annum. This is coming on the heels of backlashes from the public who criticised the N42m school fees per annum for each primary school student and N2 million as a non-refundable registration fee. They described the fee as outrageous and a waste of scarce resources for any parent to pay such a huge amount of money to sponsor just a primary school pupil…

Apr

2024