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There will be no extension for 2021 SSCE, Says NECO

Ihesiulo Grace 9 June 2021 0

Doosuur Iwambe, Abuja The National Examinations Council (NECO) has said that there will be no extension for the ongoing the registration process for the 2021 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for school based candidates. This was contained in a statement by Azeez Sani, NECO Head

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UTME: Candidates responsible for 80% registration problems, Says JAMB

Ihesiulo Grace 3 June 2021 0

Doosuur Iwambe,Abuja About 80 per cent of problems encountered by prospective candidates in the registration for the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation (UTME) Examination and Direct Entry (DE) were self-created by the students, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has said. The examination body whole expressing concern over the development noted that many

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Navy disowns fake press release inviting candidates for NNBTS Batch 30 training

Ihesiulo Grace 12 August 2020 0

The Nigerian Navy has disowned a fake press release inviting candidates of the Nigerian Navy Basic Training School (NNBTS ), Batch 30 to commence training at the school in Onne on August 18. READ ALSO: How is it that terrorists are not short of weapons? – Buhari Navy Director of Information, Commodore Suleman Dahun, on […]

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Exam fees: Kwara govt warns principals against extortion

Ihesiulo Grace 18 November 2018 0

The Kwara Government has warned principals in the 16 Local Government Areas of the state against extorting above the approved exam fees of N2,500 for Junior Secondary School Examination Certificate Examination (JSSCE). The state Commissioner for Education and Human Capital Development, Hajia Bilkisu Oniyangi, gave the warning in Ilorin on Sunday. Oniyangi advised parents

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Commission bans promotion without examination, training

Ihesiulo Grace 15 September 2018 0

The Police Service Commission (PSC) says henceforth police officers will no longer be promoted to the next rank without the requisite training programmes and examinations. A statement by the commission’s Head, Press and Public Relations, Mr Ikechukwu Ani, said the commission`s Chairman, Mr Musiliu Smith disclosed this at a meeting with the management of the […]

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Police shortlist 5,253 out of 37,000 candidates for recruitment

Ihesiulo Grace 2 June 2018 0

The Nigeria Police has shortlisted 5,253 out of 37,000 candidates who wrote its recruitment examination conducted last Friday by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for medical screening. According to a statement in its website, Kano State had the highest number of 308 candidates who made the recruitment process to the screening stage while […]

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NECO releases 2017 November/December SSCE results

Ihesiulo Grace 10 January 2018 0

The National Examination Council (NECO) has released the 2017 November/December Senior School Certificate Examination results. In the result released, 24,098 candidates, representing 56.79%, scored five credits and above in various subjects, including English Language and Mathematics. Statistics released by NECO also showed that a staggering 4,425 malpractice cases were

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AKSG spent 1.8bn on WASSCE, NAPTEB exams for its citizens

Ihesiulo Grace 6 November 2017 0

The Akwa Ibom State government said it has spent over N1.8billion since 2015 for the payment of West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) and National Business and Technical Examination Board (NABTEB) for its indigenes in public secondary schools. Special Assistant to the state Governor Udom Emmanuel on Education Monitoring, Mrs. Idongesit Etiebet,

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EXAM MALPRACTICE: An Albatross to Nigerian education system

Ihesiulo Grace 14 October 2017 0

In what could best be described as a major setback for Nigeria’s education system – examination malpractice, a source at the West African Examination Council (WAEC), laments that the nation’s examination body is still struggling to eradicate the trend. It would be recalled that the Council has always introduced measures to curb this ugly incidence, […]