EDUCATION

Why we’ve not released UTME results – JAMB

Daily Dispatch May 10, 2022

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board had yet to commence releasing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination because of some internal appraisal, its Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, said on Tuesday. According to him, JAMB wouldn’t want to release results because it

EDUCATION

TETFund announces N1.5bn intervention for public tertiary institutions

Daily Dispatch May 9, 2022

The Executive Secretary, Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund), Sonny Echono, has announced N1,487,387,028 as Direct Intervention to public tertiary institutions for the year 2022. Echono made the announcement at a Strategic Interactive Session for Heads of TETFund Beneficiary Institutions Monday in Abuja. The interactive session is with the theme: “Ensuring Synergy for

EDUCATION

Oyo Reintroduces History in Public Primary Schools Curriculum

Daily Dispatch May 9, 2022

…distributes over 4, 950 History textbooks to schools The Oyo State Government has directed all public primary schools in the State to immediately implement the teaching of History as an independent subject starting from this term (3rd term) of the 2021/2022 academic session. The Executive Chairman, Oyo State Universal Basic Education Board, Dr. Nureni Aderemi […]

EDUCATION

Breaking: ASUU Executive Committee announces extension of strike

Daily Dispatch May 9, 2022

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has extended its ongoing strike by 12 weeks. The decision, announced on in the early hours of Monday, was taken at an emergency National Executive Council meeting held at ASUU Secretariat in Abuja. The President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, confirmed the development on Monday. Osodeke said the Federal […]

EDUCATION

End the strike, Committee of VCs charges FG, ASUU

Daily Dispatch May 8, 2022

The Committee of Vice Chancellors of Nigerian Universities, CVCNU, has reiterated the need for the federal government and Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to resolve lingering issues to end the ongoing strike. Chairman of the committee, Prof. Samuel Edoumiekumo, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria, NAN, on Sunday in Abuja. He […]

EDUCATION

About 1.8m candidates jostling for 500,000 admission spaces as UTME begins

Daily Dispatch May 6, 2022

Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB has said about 1,837, 011 candidates registered to sit for 2022 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME nationwide tomorrow. The 1,837,011 candidates who registered between February 19th to March26th 2022 would be jostling for 500,000 admission spaces in the Nigerian public universities beginning tomorrow. The 2022