EDUCATION

JAMB meets stakeholders over UTME

Daily Dispatch November 13, 2017

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will meet with critical stakeholders on Wednesday to appraise the conduct of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). JAMB spokesperson Fabian Benjamin, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Lagos, that the meeting,

EDUCATION

Maritime University takes off, says minister

Daily Dispatch November 11, 2017

Maritime University, based in Okerenkoko, Delta State, has now commenced operations, and has invited applications to fill academic staff vacancies. Minister of Niger Delta, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani announced this today. He also announced that President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a significant increase of the take-off grant from N2B to N5B. Already, the grant has been

EDUCATION

Hard Drugs: Unilag begins students testing

Daily Dispatch November 11, 2017

In a bid to check drug abuse on campus, the University of Lagos has provided a drug test kit in its medical centre to examine students suspected to be on hard drugs. Prof. Rahaman Bello, outgoing Vice-Chancellor of the institution, confirmed this at a forum with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos. Bello said […]

EDUCATION

SSANU threatens to resume industrial action

Daily Dispatch November 10, 2017

Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) has threatened to resume strike over failure of the Nigerian government to honour the agreement earlier reached with the union in September. A meeting of the Joint Action Committee (JAC) of the three non- teaching staff in the universities comprising SSANU, non Academic Staff Union (NASU) and NAAT […]

EDUCATION

Kaduna govt condemns NLC ‘violence’, says no going back on education reforms

Daily Dispatch November 9, 2017

The Kaduna State Government on Wednesday restated its resolve to upgrade the quality of education in the state. The state government said it stands firmly by the long-term interests of the two million pupils in public primary schools, and would not be derailed by the agitation of 21,000 unqualified teachers. It said the process of […]

EDUCATION

[PHOTOS] Exam questions Kaduna teachers could not answer correctly

Daily Dispatch November 9, 2017

Governor Nasir el-Rufai of Kaduna State is embroiled in war of words with his teachers and their pupils on the one hand, and the Nigeria Union of Teachers on the other. They are protesting the sacking of 22,000 teachers in the state who could not correctly answer examination questions that were meant to proffer a […]