ABUJA — The Federal Government has developed a new National Policy on Senior Secondary Education to reposition senior schools in the country to global standards. The Chairman of the National Senior Secondary Education Commission (NSSEC), Ambassador Nimota Akanbi disclosed this at the end of a two-day retreat for members of the governing board in Abuja, said the new secondary policy on education was developed from the old national policy on education which had become obsolete...

The Chairman of the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) Prof. Bolaji Owasanoye on Wednesday said the agency had shut down 62 illegal degree-awarding institutions in the country. Owasanoye, who disclosed this in Abuja at a Youth Dialogue on Corruption in Tertiary Institutions organized by the ICPC for members of anti-corruption vanguards from five tertiary institutions in the FCT, also said a fake NYSC orientation camp had been closed down in its...

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Nigeria, has announced Thursday, 20 October 2022 for the launch of its digital certificate platform for people to access, confirm, share and recover their lost WAEC certificates. The Acting Head, Public Relations, WAEC Nigeria, Moyosola Adesina, in a statement, explained that the mobile and web-based application was designed specifically for candidates, individuals, institutions, and organisations to access, share, request, confirm certificates and recover forgotten WAEC candidates’ examination numbers. “The...

The University of Ibadan (UI), University of Lagos (UNILAG), among other Nigerian institutions made it to this year’s list of the world’s best universities. This is according to the 2023 Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings released on Wednesday. According to a report published on the THE website, 1,799 universities across 104 countries and regions were ranked. The ranking was conducted based on 13 calibrated performance indicators that measure an institution’s performance across four...