WAEC Cancels certificates issued 28 years ago; discloses reasons

- WAEC Cancels 29 certificates.- Some were issued 28 years ago.- Some pertained to individuals who willingly returned the certificates and admitted involvement in malpractice.The West African Examina…

Some candidates forget their expo in their exam booklets- WAEC

The West African Examination Council, WAEC, has revealed that in a hurry to submit their answer booklets to invigilators, some candidates forget their expo(materials used for examination malpract…

Fayose commended over NECO results

The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has been commended by principals, parents and teachers in the state, for the success of the state's candidates in the just released results of the 2016 N…

We are yet to declare any strike- ASUU

Contrary to a recent report being circulated, university lecturers under the auspices of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, have said that they had yet to declare an industrial actio…

Send your children to school or go to jail- el-Rufai to Kaduna parents

At a screening for the "He named me Malala,"? documentary organised by his wife, Hadiza, at the Government House on Saturday, Kaduna State Governor, Nasir el-Rufai, insisted that parents who failed t…

Parents protest FG increment of Unity Schools fees

The recent Federal Government increment of fees of Unity Schools, has been protested against by the National Parents and Teachers Association of the Federal Government Colleges.The association has de…

Wild jubilation amongst Muslims as ban on hijab in Lagos Public Schools is lifted

Wild jubilation broke out at the premises of the Court of Appeal in Lagos State on Thursday, when the right to wear Hijab, Islamic headscarf, in public primary and secondary schools was granted.With …

ASUU rejects scrapping of post-UTME

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned that the nation's university sector may soon be thrown into crisis if the Federal Government fails to begin the total implementation of the …

Literary Giant, Elechi Amadi, passes on at 82

Prominent Nigerian, literary giant, and one of Africa's finest novelist, poet and dramatist, Captain Elechi Amadi passed away on Wednesday, at the Good Heart hospital in Port-Harcourt.Elechi passed o…

Ogun students stage protest over lecturers' unpaid 14-month salaries

The Oke Ilewo, Abeokuta secretariat of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, was on Wednesday stormed by scores of students of the Tai Solarin College of Education, Omu Ijebu, Ogun State, who were there …

Christian students in Osun defy Aregbesola and head back to school in church robes

In defiance of Governor Rauf Aregbesola's warning on Tuesday that any student found disobeying school rules and regulations risks expulsion, some students still arrived at the Baptist High School, Iw…

States are not required to fund School Feeding Programme- Presidency

Following accusations of fraud made against the Federal Government by Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti, the Presidency has now stated that counterpart funding from states is not required to start the…

Aregbesola threatens to expel students wearing choir robes to school

Osun State Governor, Ogeni Rauf Aregbesola, on Tuesday said henceforth, students who wore unauthorised clothes to any public schools in the State would be expelled.Aregbesola made his comments in rea…

JAMB adopts 180 cut-off mark

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and tertiary education stakeholders on Thursday in Abuja adopted 180 as the cut-off mark for 2016 admission into universities, polytechnics and col…

7 years to study medicine: NUC

 Medical students are required to do seven years in the universities and not 11 as erroneously reported in some news media recently.National Universities Commission (NUC), made the clarification…

Abducted Babington schoolgirls, rescued

 The three kidnapped female students of Babing?ton Macaulay Junior Seminary (BMJS), Agunfoye-Lugbusi, Ikorodu,Lagos, have been rescued.The Lagos State Governor, Akinwunmi Ambode and the Police C…

FCT Minister Appoints Ona Of Abaji Pro-Chancellor Of AUTA

The FCT Minister, Malam Muhammad Musa Bello has appointed the Ona of Abaji, Alhaji Adamu Baba Yunusa as the Pro-Chancellor of Abuja University of Technology, Abaji.The Minister made this revelation o…

survey shows high graduate unemployment in Nigeria

Nigeria needs to ramp up training and job creation schemes for university graduates, a leading recruitment agency said on Monday, after a survey indicated nearly half of those with a higher education…

Tears and Agony At Post UTME Exams

More than 34,000 students that wrote the recent Post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka (UNIZIK) went home dejected. The computer-based test defl…

Nigerian Youths Demand for Free Internet

Representatives of Nigerian youths, on Thursday, called on government at all levels to provide free and reliable Internet services in public places across the country. The demand was among the recomm…