By Doosuur Iwambe The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board(JAMB)has dismmised two of its staff for gross misconduct. This was contained in a statement Fabian Benjamin, JAMB Head, Public Affairs and Protocol and made available to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday. The statement gave the
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By Doosuur Iwambe At least 15 collaborators in Computer-based centres (CBT) who were involved in various forms of practices in the forth coming 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) have been arrested. This was disclosed by the Registrar, Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof Ishaq Oloyede at the end of a joint monitoring exercise […]
Book 11,419 candidates for various forms of malpractices By Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The National Examinations Council, NECO, has announced the release of the result of the November/December 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination, SSCE. Registrar of NECO, Prof Dantani Ibrahim Wushishi, who made the announcement on Thursday. Giving a detailed breakdown, the registrar said
*Says, there will be no extension after deadline By Doosuur Iwambe The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), announced on Saturday that a total of 1.16 million candidates have so far registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examination (UTME). JAMB Registrar Professor Ishaq Oloyede who made this disclosure during a monitoring tour of some […]
*Says, moves will actualise AU-EU partnership on research, innovation By Doosuur Iwambe The Tertiary Education Trust fund (TETFUND) has constituted the National Contact Point (NCP) to serve as a channel for information dissemination on opportunities. The move according to TETFund is part of its commitment towards actualising the African Union, AU, and European Union, EU,
Vice-Chancellor, Nile University of Nigeria, Prof. Dilli Dogo is a man with a tall CV. He is a first class graduate of Medicine, and administrator who graduated in 1984 with a distinction in medicine and physiology. He has continue to to specialize in Surgery and rose through the ranks to become a Professor of surgery while […]
The agreement between the NBA and the world’s largest digital university reinforces the comprehensive development of students, who will have access to an exclusive academic catalog that breaks with the patterns of online education The National Basketball Association (NBA) has signed a strategic agreement with TECH Technological University. Thus, the educational
By Doosuur Iwambe The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFund, has uncovered new plots by certain individuals and groups to malign the leadership of the fund and disrupt its activities. TETFund in a statement by its Director, Public Affairs noted that the alleged plot was due to its firm determination not to succumb to frivolous requests […]
*Says, Nigeria’s 2030 target of UHC not feasible By Doosuur Iwambe Dr Odiah Edozie Felix is a Public Health Physician/Desmotologist. He worked with the Nigeria Prisons Medical Corps and Retired in 2013 as Controller of Prisons. In this exclusive interview with the DAILY TIMES, he examined the health sector under the current administration, what Nigeria […]
The demand for professionals with a higher level of education has doubled in recent years, and those who have it manage to obtain a lower unemployment rate The business world is looking for professionals with higher education and TECH Nigeria offers many programs focused on the most innovative higher-quality education to help students to increase […]
The world’s largest university uses the ‘Case Method’ designed by Harvard and its own ‘Re-Learning’ system TECH Technological University is the pioneer in introducing the Harvard “Case Method” in its educational system to give students the opportunity to learn with the best innovative pedagogical tools such as Harvard’s
By Doosuur Iwambe The Vice-Chancellor of Lagos State University (LASU), Prof Ibiyemi Olatunji-Bello, has called on academic staff to ensure that the institution maintains its global ranking by publishing its research online in reputable journals and websites. She also urged the academics to enhance their visibility by hoisting their works on the university’s website to
By Doosuur Iwambe The Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU, may drag the Federal Government over its members’ eight months’ withheld salaries, The PUNCH has learnt. ASUU will resort to the court, it was learnt, once the government goes ahead to pay members of the parallel union, the Congress of Nigerian University Academics.Counsel for ASUU, […]
By Doosuur Iwambe Provost, Abia State College of Education Arochukwu, Dr Philip Nto, has explained that part of the plans to upgrade the institution to a university of education was to boost students’ enrollment which, according to him, is grossly inadequate. The Provost made the explanation after a media round the on-going projects in the […]
By Doosuur Iwambe The Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Nana Opia has tasked South West Governors to Prioritise education through increased budgetary allocations, infrastructural development and sustained public reorientation as ways of tackling the menace of out-of-school children. He also appealed to South West Governors to emulate and sustain the legacies of
BY DOOSUUR IWAMBE The Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, has said that the National Business and Technical Examinations Board, NABTEB, General Certificate of Education Advance Level results for 2015 to 2021 are valid. The Minister noted that the results are not only valid but also usable for admission to tertiary institutions. This information is […]
By Doosuur Iwambe The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed major dates for its 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board in its weekly bulletin released on Tuesday approved the commencement of registration for the 2023 UTME from Saturday January 14 to Tuesday February 14, 2023. The exam body however disclosed that […]
By Doosuur Iwambe The National Examinations Council (NECO) has put in place new measures to tackle the menace of examination mal practice in the country. The exam body while calling for concerted efforts to nip the trend in the bud expressed its readiness to totally root out incidents of exam malpractice in all its examinations. […]
By Doosuur Iwambe For Nigeria to curb the menace of the growing number of Out-of-school chlidren, key stakeholders in the nation’s education sector have stressed the need for consistent investment, political will and good leadership in tackling the menace. Participants at the National Conference on ‘Out Of School Children in Nigeria’ also called for adequate
By Doosuur Iwambe At least 17,000 academic staff on Information and Communication Technology (ICT) have been trained in the last two years, the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFund) has said. Speaking during the Asset Declaration, Security and Fraud Detection Awareness Workshop /TETFund SERVICOM Week in Abuja, the Executive Secretary of TETFund, Arc. Sonny Echono said,