Category: Education

Education stakeholders have hailed the recent scrapping of general cut-off marks for admission into the country’s tertiary institutions by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB. JAMB had at its August 31, 2021, virtual policy meeting said that tertiary institutions were now to set their own minimum benchmarks. The meeting was chaired by the Minister […]

Nigeria’s premier university, the University of Ibadan, UI,  maintains its top spot in the 2022 Times Higher Education World University Rankings. However, the University of Lagos moved a step ahead to rank second in Nigeria and 501–600, out of over 1,600 institutions across the world. On its part, the Lagos State University dropped to sixth […]

The Federal University, Oye-Ekiti (FUOYE), on Saturday, said that a schedule of school fees that has gone viral on social media did not originate from the management of the institution. This was disclosed by the Public Relations Officer of the university, Mr Foluso Ogunmodede, in a signed statement issued in Oye-Ekiti. The statement asked members […]

The Joint Admission Matriculation Board has said the University of Ilorin and University of Lagos, Akoka are the first two institutions which had the highest numbers of being picked as first choice universities in Nigeria. This was recorded in the 2021 policy document made available to The PUNCH and signed by the JAMB’s registrar, Prof. […]

JAMB-UMTE Computer based test in Abuja A candidate from Lagos State, Monwuba Chibuikem, has emerged as the best over all candidate at the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination with a score of 358. According to The Cable, the information was contained in a document shared by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board at its policy […]

Acting Vice Chancellor, Prof. Oyedamola Oke (right) presenting the award letters from TETFund to grant winners Two research teams from Lagos State University (LASU), led by a former Dean, Faculty of Arts, Prof. Adeniyi Harrison, and the current Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Prof. Omobitan Olufunso, have won the 2020 Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has pegged the fee for post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (post-UTME) at N2,000. It also adopted the minimum cut-off marks for 2021/2022 admissions sent by heads of tertiary institutions across the country. The adoption signifies that there will be no uniform cut-off marks for 2021/2022 admissions, as was done […]

The Federal Government, on Monday, explained why it had not paid the University Revitalisation Fund and met other demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, who stated this in an interview, said government was working hard to ensure the release of the revitalisation fund by the Central […]