• Legislation fulfillment of campaign promises, says Alake President Bola Tinubu has signed the Students Loan Bill into law, in fulfillment of one of his promises to liberalise funding of education in the country. This was disclosed to newsmen, yesterday evening, by the President’s media team, led by Dele Alake, who is also a member […]
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In fulfillment of one of his campaign promises, President Bola Tinubu has signed the Student Loan Bill into law. This was disclosed to State House Correspondents on Monday evening by a spokesman of the Federal Government, Dele Alake. He said the funds will be domiciled in the Ministry of Education and will only […]
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in collaboration with tertiary institutions, would on June 24, fix the cut–off marks for admissions into tertiary institutions. The cut–off marks would be adopted at the 2023 policy meeting on admission into tertiary institutions. Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, JAMB, Fabian Benjamin disclosed this in the weekly […]
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The Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara state on Friday matriculated 11,450 Students for the 2022/2023 academic session. The matriculating students, according to the Rector of the institution, Dr. Kadiri Kamoru were admitted for National Diploma (ND) and Higher National Diploma (HND) full-time and part-time courses in the Polytechnic. Speaking at the event, the Rector admonished the […]
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The Senate on Wednesday passed the bill seeking to mandate the teaching of sexual and gender-based violence in secondary schools across the country. While passing the bill, it said compulsory inclusion of the SGBV in the school curriculum will expose secondary students to the dangers involved in committing such acts. The bill was sponsored by […]
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Sudan Returnees The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has rolled out modalities for the absorption of returnee students from war-torn countries into Nigerian universities. This is disclosed in a statement by the board’s Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, and made available to newsmen in Abuja on Wednesday. Benjamin said the modalities […]
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The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Ibadan (UI) Chapter, has urged the Inspector General of Police, Alkali Baba, to assist the Oyo State Police Command with all logistics needed to unravel and arrest the killers of Prof. Opeyemi Ajewole. This is contained in a release signed by the Chairman, UI Chapter of […]
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The review of the immigration policy that allows family members and dependents to accompany international students to the United Kingdom is a wake-up call for the Nigerian authorities to address motivations for the mass exodus syndrome. Rather than begrudge the UK government for the seemingly harsh stance, it is high time the Nigerian government took […]
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Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has approved N130 million as a zonal intervention for polytechnics in its 2023 intervention, with a view to reinvigorating skills acquisition at the institutions. This was disclosed in Abuja, yesterday, by Director of Infrastructure, Buhari Mika’Ilu, at the TETFund/NBTE Sensitisation Workshop on 2023 Zonal Intervention on Skills for Rectors and […]
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Among the myriad problems that President Bola Tinubu inherits are the terribly dysfunctional health and education sectors. To describe them as a mess is an understatement. Although his inaugural speech was silent on these two critical sectors, his manifesto sets out an ambitious desire to transform the education sector, reform the healthcare delivery system, and […]
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