EDUCATION

TRCN threatens 13 states owing teachers’ salaries

Daily Dispatch March 12, 2018

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria, TRCN, has threatened to take decisive action against the 13 debtor governors owing their teachers backlog of salaries and other allowances. TRCN said it was wickedness on the part of the governors not to pay teachers despite the bailouts they had

EDUCATION

JAMB records 3.2% decrease in registration

Daily Dispatch March 7, 2018

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it has recorded a decrease in the number of registered candidates for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) in 2018. The Registrar of the Board, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede disclosed this to newsmen on Wednesday in Abuja. Oloyode said that a total number of 1, 662, 762 candidates […]

EDUCATION

JAMB confirms 1.6 million candidates for UTME

Daily Dispatch March 5, 2018

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said Over 1.6 million candidates are expected to write the examination in 602 centres across the country for the conduct of the examination scheduled to hold from March 9 to March 17. The board’s Head of Media and Information Department, Dr Fabian Benjamin, said candidates for the […]

EDUCATION

Court: Post-UTMEs are illegal, unlawful

Daily Dispatch March 3, 2018

A Federal High Court, Abuja, has declared the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (post-UTME) conducted by universities, polytechnics and colleges of education in Nigeria as illegal. The court on Friday said there was no extant law authorising the exercise. According to a report, the court held that only the Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board (JAMB)

EDUCATION

Chinese ambassador, Pingjian, to enrol as student in UNICAL

Daily Dispatch March 1, 2018

The Chinese ambassador to Nigeria, Dr. Zhou Pingjian, has expressed intention to enrol as a student into the Institute of African and Asian Studies at the University of Calabar. Pingjian disclosed this on Thursday at the university’s International Conference Centre where he presented scholarships valued at N100,000 each to 47 students of the institution. The […]

EDUCATION

JAMB releases mock UTME result

Daily Dispatch March 1, 2018

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, on Thursday, released the results of the just-conducted Mock Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Thursday in Lagos. According to him, candidates are to check their results on […]