The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will no longer conduct mop-up examinations for Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates who are not biometrically verified. JAMB stated this in its weekly bulletin on Monday in Abuja, noting that the measure was not only to sanitise the examination process but also to ensure that the hard-earned reputation of the board was not impugned. “The board has decided that the era whereby some candidates will...

MINNA — The technical committee set up by Niger State Government to conduct a teachers’ census in the state has uncovered 5, 665 unqualified teachers in primary and secondary schools across the state. Labaran Garba, chairman of the committee disclosed this while presenting the report of the 2022 teachers’ census to Governor Abubakar Sani Bello in Government House, Minna. The committee recommended that the teachers’ census be conducted every three years to enable effective and...

Femi Falana, the human rights lawyer, has indicated that the federal government does not have the legal backing to proscribe the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) over its continued strike. He said this in reaction to speculations that the federal government is planning to proscribe ASUU for failing to call off the strike. The strike, which began on February 16, is a result of the government’s inability to fully address the union’s demands. The...

The Lagos government has mandated the studying of history across primary and junior secondary schools in the state. The state ministry of education, in a statement seen by TheCable Lifestyle on Saturday, said that the subject is to be offered as an elective in senior secondary schools. It said its latest move is in line with directives from the Nigerian Education Research and Development Council (NERDC). “I have the directive of the OG (OEQA) to...

MAIDUGURI — Borno State Government has released the sum of N19.4 million for the payment of scholarships to 59 law students who are indigenes of the state studying in the three law schools in the country. Isa Bala, Executive Secretary of Borno Scholarship Board who disclosed in Maiduguri, said the scholarship was part of the government’s social welfare and cooperative responsibility to the indigenes of the state. He explained that Governor Babagana Zulum approved the...