Education
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JAMB Probes AI-Driven Syndicate Over 2026 UTME Registration Sabotage
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has opened an investigation into members of a syndicate allegedly using artificial intelligence…
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NELFUND breaks silence on loan diversion
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has officially responded to viral claims regarding the alleged diversion of student loans at…
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Benue Govt warns private schools against outrageous fees, unauthorised levies
The Benue State Government has warned private school owners against imposing what it described as outrageous fees and unauthorised levies…
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Cultural barriers hurting Northern Nigeria, says UNICEF
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has identified deep-seated cultural barriers as a major factor hindering efforts to reduce the…
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FCT primary school teachers join ongoing strike
Primary education in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) has been thrown into total disarray as public school teachers officially joined…
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FG to abolish HND dichotomy, empower polytechnics to award degrees
The Federal Government has announced plans to abolish the long-standing Higher National Diploma (HND) dichotomy by granting polytechnics the authority…
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Nigerian professors to receive N140k monthly allowance
The Federal Government of Nigeria has officially announced that professors in the nation's public universities will now receive an additional…
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Nigerian scholarship students in Morocco not abandoned, payment delays due to fiscal constraints — FG
The Federal Government of Nigeria on Tuesday debunked reports alleging that Nigerian students on scholarship in the Kingdom of Morocco…
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Federal Government denies abandoning students in Morocco
The Federal Government has firmly debunked narratives circulating in some quarters regarding Nigerian scholarship students in the Kingdom of Morocco,…
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Sokoto schools resume as authorities defy security fears
The Sokoto State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) has officially directed all public primary and junior secondary schools across the…
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Nigerian govt prohibits admission, transfer into SS3 classes
The Federal Government has announced a nationwide prohibition on the admission and transfer of students into Senior Secondary School Three,…
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NUT threatens mass withdrawal from classrooms over incessant abductions
The Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) has issued a stern warning, threatening to direct all teachers nationwide to withdraw from…
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Amotekun begins comprehensive patrol of all boarding schools in Ondo State
The Southwest Security Network Agency, popularly known as Amotekun, has officially commenced comprehensive security patrols of all boarding schools across…
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Insecurity: Bauchi govt. announces temporary closure of public, private schools
The Bauchi State Government has announced the closure of primary, secondary and higher institutions across the state over the rising…
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CAN confirms 215 pupils, 12 teachers abducted from Niger Catholic school
The Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Niger State chapter, has confirmed that 215 pupils and 12 teachers were abducted during…
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Nigerian govt closes 41 Unity Colleges over insecurity
The Federal Government has closed 41 Federal Government Colleges across the country following the recent abduction of school children in…
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NYSC disowns ‘pay ransom’ pamphlet, labels document as fake
The Management of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) has moved to distance itself from a pamphlet circulating widely on…
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ASUU to Nigerians: Mount pressure on FG to address lingering demands
The Academic Staff Union of University, ASUU, Abuja Zone, has called on Nigerians to persuade the Federal Government to resolve…
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ASUU accuses FG of undermining education, warns of fresh crisis
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Nsukka Zone, has accused the Federal Government of undermining Nigeria’s education sector by…
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NLC urges private universities to join ASUU
…says doing so will strengthen collective voice of Nigerian lecturers — The President of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, Joe…
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ECOWAS calls for modernisation of islamic schools to curb terrorism in West Africa
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has urged member states to modernise traditional Islamic schools as part of…
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JAMB extends 2025 public varsities admission deadline
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has extended the deadline for the completion of 2025 admissions into public universities…
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JAMB conducts promotion exam for 450 junior civil servants in Abuja
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Friday successfully conducted a promotion examination for junior-level workers under the supervision…
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FG begins disbursement of tertiary institution staff support fund
The Federal Government has commenced the disbursement of funds under the Tertiary Institution Staff Support Fund (TISSF), an initiative aimed…
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FG disburses N2.31bn to federal universities for staff arrears
The Federal Government has released N2.31 billion to federal universities to clear outstanding arrears owed to both academic and non-academic…
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ASUU suspends warning strike, gives FG one-month ultimatum
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has officially suspended its two-week warning strike following renewed engagement and negotiation efforts…
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NELFUND opens portal for student loan registration
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund, NELFUND, has announced the opening of its student loan application portal for the 2025/2026 academic…
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NLC gives Nigerian govt 4 weeks to resolve tertiary education crisis
The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has given the Federal Government a four-week ultimatum to conclude all ongoing negotiations in the…
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NLC declares ‘no pay, no work’ as strike deepens in education sector
The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) and affiliate unions from the education sector have declared a “no pay, no work” stance…
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English, Mathematics compulsory for all O’level candidates — FG
The Federal Government says English Language and Mathematics remain compulsory subjects for all students at the O’Level. This is contained…
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Removing mathematics as admission requirement will curb forgery – Oloyede
Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, the Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculations Board, JAMB, has said the decision of the Federal Government to…
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FG orders enforcement of ‘no work, no pay’ policy on striking ASUU members
The Federal Government of Nigeria has issued a firm directive to all vice-chancellors of federal universities to implement the “no…
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FG orders VCs to enforce ‘no work, no pay’ on ASUU
The Federal Government has ordered the immediate enforcement of the “No Work, No Pay” policy on all members of the…
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FG insists all ASUU demands have been met
The Federal Government has stated that it has fulfilled all the conditions laid out by the Academic Staff Union of…
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Geoffrey Nnaji resigns as Minister
PRESIDENT TINUBU ACCEPTS RESIGNATION OF GEOFFREY NNAJI AS MINISTER President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has accepted the resignation of Geoffrey Uche…
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N20bn for ‘abandoned’ national library project
The First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, says the National Library fund has raised about N20.4 billion since its launch on September…
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Nigerian govt adds Chinese Language to secondary school curriculum
The Federal Government has officially introduced the Chinese language, Mandarin, into the national curriculum for senior secondary schools across Nigeria.…
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New curricula adopted after nationwide consultations – FG
The Federal Government says it rolled out the revised Basic and Senior Secondary School Curricula, after extensive engagements with stakeholders…
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Oyo government bans ‘Sign-Out’ celebrations in schools, reiterates phone prohibition
The Oyo State Government has banned “sign-out” celebrations by final-year students in all public and private schools, citing growing concerns…
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Nigeria ranks 4th globally for attacks on school children — UN
Nigeria has been ranked fourth in the world for the highest number of grave violations against school children in armed…
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