EDUCATION

JAMB Set for supplementary UTME

Daily Dispatch June 16, 2017

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Thursday said it had concluded arrangements for its supplementary 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. The board’s Head, Media and Information, Dr. Fabian Benjamin, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos.

EDUCATION

Unpaid Salaries: NUT gives 19 states 30 days ultimatum….may go on indefinite strike action

Daily Dispatch June 16, 2017

Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), has called on the 19 states governors that are owing teachers several months of salary to pay up within the next 30 days or face an indefinite strike action. National President of the union, Comrade Michael Alogba Olukoya, gave the ultimatum in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, while addressing journalists […]

EDUCATION

[BREAKING] JAMB blacklists 48 CBT centres for malpractice in 2017 UTME

Daily Dispatch June 14, 2017

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has blacklisted 48 Computer-Based Test centres over their alleged involvement in extortion and organised examination malpractices during the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. JAMB’s Registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, made the disclosure on Wednesday in Abuja at a news conference at the end of an enlarged meeting

EDUCATION

NUT urges Plateau govt to convert its 4,000 ad-hoc teachers to permanent staff

Daily Dispatch June 12, 2017

The National Union of Teachers (NUT) in Plateau has urged the state government to convert its more than 4,000 ad-hoc teachers to permanent staff to make them more productive. The Chairman of NUT in the state, Mr Gunshin Yarlings, who gave the advice in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Jos on […]

EDUCATION

Nigerian students barricade N’Assembly, want FG to take over LAUTECH

Daily Dispatch June 8, 2017

Students drawn from various faculties of the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomosho, on Thursday, stormed the National Assembly, demanding that the federal government should takeover the funding and administration of the institution. The students also decried the prolonged industrial action, which had kept them in one level for almost 2 years.

EDUCATION

NUC releases lists of fake universities in Nigeria, warns parents [See Lists]

Daily Dispatch June 6, 2017

The National Universities Commission, NUC, has provided a list of all illegal universities operating in Nigeria. NUC warned parents, guardians and students to be aware of the universities it listed who are awarding illegal degrees to unsuspecting students. NUC warned that the universities were not approved and their certificates are as a result declared fake. […]