The Federal Government has debunked a false statement circulating online, which claimed that the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) conducted by WAEC and the National Examinations Council (NECO) had been cancelled due to widespread examination malpractice. In a statement released by the Ministry on Sunday, signed by Boriowo Folasade, Director of Press…
The Sen Abdul’aziz Yari Scholarship Initiative Committee in Zamfara, said it has spent N216 million on the payment of school fees to 2,055 orphans and other indigent students for the first year. The Chairman, Publicity Sub Committee, Alhaji Ibrahim Danmalikin-Gidangoga, disclosed this at a press briefing in Gusau on Sunday. The News Agency of Nigeria…
The Petroleum Technology Development Fund (PTDF), has begun the 2025 overseas scholarship selection exercise of 400 candidates in the North-East. Its Executive Secretary, Ahmed Galadima, said this while supervising the candidates selection/screening exercise, on Monday in Bauchi. He said the fund had set up eight centres across the country, to select best talents to study…
Stakeholders at the Kaduna International Education Summit, tagged ‘EduPACT 2025′, have advocated an investment of N440 billion in Technical, Vocational Education and Training (TVET) and far-reaching reforms to mainstream Almajiri education. This formed part of a communique issued at the end of the three-day summit in Kaduna on Sunday. The Commissioner for Education, Prof. Abubakar…
Staff unions at Olusegun Agagu University of Science and Technology (OAUSTECH) in Okitipupa, Nigeria, have suspended a two-week warning strike triggered by unmet labour demands. The industrial action, which started on 20 June, followed a call by the Joint Action Congress (JAC) of Ondo State Tertiary Institutions (ODSTI) over issues such as unpaid allowances and…
The UK government has announced it will roll out digital eVisas for applicants seeking to study or work in Britain, beginning 15 July, as part of efforts to transition towards a fully digital immigration system. Mrs Gill Lever, the British Deputy High Commissioner in Abuja, confirmed the change in a statement on Wednesday. The digital…
Nigeria’s National Examinations Council (NECO) has officially published the results of the 2025 Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE), the assessment taken by students at the close of their Junior Secondary School education. According to a statement released on Wednesday in Abuja by Mr Azeez Sani, NECO’s Acting Director of Information and Public Relations, a total…
Nigeria’s national exam body, the National Examinations Council (NECO), has announced new legal and technical measures to fight rampant exam malpractice, much of it facilitated via encrypted WhatsApp groups. Speaking to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Ibadan, Mr Ahmed Bagwai, who chairs NECO’s Annual Posting Calendar Implementation Committee, revealed that the council is…
A political scientist and lawyer, Prof. Babafemi Badejo, says the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) 150 cut-off mark should not be seen as a definitive measure of an individual’s academic worth. Badejo, a former Deputy Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia, made this known in a telephone interview with the News Agency…
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) has opposed the new admission cut-off marks approved by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), describing them as a threat to the integrity of Nigeria’s tertiary education system. Reacting in an interview, the president of the Union, Comrade Shammah S. Kpanja said, “Honestly speaking, the fixing of…
