Education

JAMB To Bar Students From Direct Entry Admissions Over Verification Failure Students from no fewer than 155 institutions may be barred from processing Direct Entry admissions owing to failed verification from their certificates awarding institutions, findings by Sunday PUNCH have revealed. The registration for DE examinations, it was gathered, is set to commence on February 28, 2024. In February 2023, JAMB issued an advisory to guide candidates seeking to gain admissions through Direct Entry in the 2023/2024 academic session. According to JAMB, the advisory was basically to address the issue of candidates using unacceptable or forged A-level certificates/ qualifications to…

Youth Minister Speaks On Raising Corps Members’ Allowance The Minister of Youth Development, Jamila Bio-Ibrahim, says it is not certain that the Federal Government will increase the monthly allowance of serving members of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC). Bio-Ibrahim, who was a guest on Channels Television’s Sunday Politics programme, said the government would find innovative ways of ensuring that corps members’ welfare are well-taken of. In January 2020, the government raised allowance for corps members from N19,000 to N33,000, about a year after then President Muhammadu Buhari signed the new minimum wage bill into law in April 2019. With…

Corps Members Head To Indian For Youth Exchange Programme The National Youth Service Corps has announced that 10 corps members will travel to India on Sunday, to participate in a Youth Exchange Programme organised by the Indian National Cadet Corps. The annual programme is held to commemorate the Independence Anniversary of the Republic of India, drawing participants from Europe, Asia, Africa and other continents. This was contained in a statement signed by NYSC’s Director of Press and Public Relations, Eddy Megwa, on Saturday. During a pre-departure briefing held at the Indian High Commission in Abuja, the NYSC Director-General, Brigadier General…