JAMB reschedules 18,000 candidates for mop-up UTME Aug 6

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has rescheduled examination for more than 18,000 candidates who experienced biometric verification challenges and those who genuinely missed the just-concluded Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination…

Education budget’ll rise by 50% in two years – Buhari

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari has pledged to increase the budget for the education sector by 50 per cent over the next two years. This was part of a…

Killing of python: College dares Owerri ancestors, students resort to prayers

The authorities of Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, students, and the people of Owerri, Imo State, may be heading for a spiritual showdown over the killing of a python.…

Negative Effects of Peer Pressure in High School

Teenage and high school years play an immense role in shaping the person you are going to become. Although school is given to us to receive an education, it can…

FG deploys 9,100 corpers in North-West, gunmen kill 344, abduct 430 July

No fewer than 9,100 corps members have been mobilised to the seven states in the North-West amid rising insecurity in the region which has led to the murder of at…

Okorocha pledges to build school in Ogun community

A former governor of Imo state and Senator representing the Imo West Senatorial District, Rochas Okorocha, has pledged to establish a school in the  border town of Ogun State  for…

ENUGU LAWMAKER DRAGS AIRFORCE CHIEF TO NAPTIP OVER ATTEMPTED MURDER OF 15-YEAR OLD BOY

Following  the reported case of  an attempted  murder of one Chidalu Ugwueke  by his master Air Commodore Bernerd Ugwueke (rtd) and his wife Mrs Mary Ugwueke The Member representing Aninri…

2021 UTME: JAMB withdraws candidate result for impersonation

The Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination result of one Attama Lawrence Ikedichukwu has been withdrawn by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) following allegations of hiring a professional exams taker.  JAMB spokesperson Fabian Benjamin…

UNN ASUU, residents urge FG to prevent another strike

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) chapter, has advised the Federal Government to take steps to avert another nationwide strike by the union. The…

ASUU grumbles over inconsistency in salaries, faults IPPIS again

The Academic Staff Union of Universities has alleged that its members’ salaries are being paid by contractors to the Federal Government. It also faulted the selective payment of salaries to…