The United Nations Children’s Fund has inaugurated the distribution of learning materials, safety kits, and sanitary pads to 60 schools in Kano State. Speaking at the event held at State Universal Basic Education Board headquarters in Kano, the Chief of…

The West African Examinations Council has said a total of 2,276,112 candidates sat for the Senior School Certificate Examination in The Gambia, Ghana, Liberia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone, in 2022. The council also honoured three candidates, two Ghanaians and one…

The National Universities Commission has accredited eight undergraduate and two postgraduate courses for Wellspring University, Benin, Edo State. The vice chancellor of the university, Prof. Isaac Ajayi, who disclosed this at the weekend, also said the school had got approval…

Prof. Olusola Kehinde of the Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, was on Monday, installed as the seventh substantive Vice Chancellor of the institution, The PUNCH has learnt. Kehinde took over from Prof. Felix Salako, who served in an acting capacity…

The Federal Government has appointed Dr Kamoru Kadiri as the fifth Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Offa, Kwara State. The appointment, which was announced on Monday, came 15 months after the expiration of the tenure of the fourth rector, Dr…

The management of the University of Medical Sciences Teaching Hospital, Ondo State said it had begun to grant its medical students study loans. It was gathered that the loans were meant for the students who are in final year and…

The Kano Executive Council has approved the appointment of the Olubadan of Ibadan, Oba Moshood Aliiwo, as the chancellor of the state owned Sa’adatu Rimi University of Education, Kumbotso. The state Commissioner for Information and Internal Affairs, Malam Muhammad Garba, …

The West African Examinations Council has announced that it has released the West African Senior School Certificate Examination result for private candidates in the first series for 2023.   However, out of the 8,348 candidates that sat for the exam,…

….Asks FG for compensation for deported students A civil society group, the Nigerian Diaspora Youth Ambassador, has asked the Nigerian government to cut diplomatic ties with Northern Cyprus over the ill-treatment of Nigerian students in various universities in the Turkish…

The Federal University Oye-Ekiti has postponed the computer-based examinations for its students by one week to address issues raised by students and other stakeholders concerning the conduct of the exercise. The Registrar, Mr Mufutau Ibrahim, who said that the university…

The management of the Rivers State University, Port Harcourt, has revealed that the institution has obtained full accreditation from the National Universities Commission for all 24 programmes submitted for the exercise.   The Vice Chancellor, Prof Nlerum Okogbule, stated this…

The Federal University Oye-Ekiti on Friday said no student died on Thursday during the issues that came up with the Computer Based Test as was being rumoured by some online news bloggers. The Registrar of the university, Mr Mufutau Ibrahim,…

THE Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education Commission, Dr Hamid Bobboyi, has decried the rising case of cultism and other social vices in the nation’s basic education system. He attributed the ugly development to the degeneration of moral values…

Bridge International Academies has advised parents to play an integral role in assisting their children’s learning. This it did through a co-curricular activity where it exhibited some of the works that pupils at all its 46 Academies in Lagos and…

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has apologised for the challenges candidates witnessed on Thursday during the Mock-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination. On Thursday, parents of mock-UTME candidates and candidates complained bitterly over the anguish they experienced in accessing the JAMB…