The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the results of the 2020 Senior School Certificate Examination for External Candidates. Announcing the results at the Council Headquarters in Minna, today, the Registrar/Chief Executive, Prof. Godswill Obioma disclosed that a total of 41,459 candidates registered for the examination, out of which 39,503Continue Reading
By Atinuke Z. Miftahu Zaar (Sayawa) Muslim Community in Bauchi State has commended the Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund (TETFUND), Professor Suleiman Bogoro for donating foodstuffs to them this fasting month of Ramadan. Leader of the Sayawa Muslims under the aegis of ‘Zaar Muslims Community’, Danjuma SheikhContinue Reading
BY Qasi Jawad A Veteran Polytechnic Administrator, Professor Idris Bugaje, will soon assume duty as the Executive Secretary of National Board For Technical Education (NBTE), whose Headquarters is in Kaduna, Education Monitor, has learned. Professor Bugaje whose appointment was approved by the President, penultimate week, is the current Rector ofContinue Reading
by Dmitry Medvedev “Avoiding a clash with great powers does not indicate cowardice, but wisdom, because sacrificing oneself is never an advantage anywhere”. “The Art of War” by Sun Tzu In recent years, relations between Russia and the US have shifted from competitiveness to confrontation, effectively going back to theContinue Reading
By Denis Demenenge The Ahmadu Bello University’s Students’ Representatives Council (ABU-SRC) said it plans to close shops whose owners has increased prices on commodities unnecessarily. The SRC president Mr Abubakar Ali made this known during an interactive session with our correspondent at the SRC secretariat in Samaru, Zaria. He saidContinue Reading
The Tertiary Education Trust Fund, (TETFund) has charged the 226 public tertiary institutions statutorily benefiting from its interventions to inculcate efficient service delivery that would ensure that Nigerian higher institutions compete favourably with the best in the world. The fund warned that its desire to achieve results in line withContinue Reading
By Waliyat Kamaldeen The National Universities Commission (NUC) will issue Provisional lecenses to 20 new Private Universities tomorrow. This will bring to 99, total number of Private Universities in Nigeria. The licenses which will be issued by the Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu will be reviewed after three yearsContinue Reading
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, said it had postponed the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME and the Direct Entry, DE registration exercise earlier scheduled to commence on Thursday 8th April, 2020. JAMB explained in a statement by its Head of Media and Protocol, Dr Fabian Benjamin, that theContinue Reading
A Concocted, Illogical and Pedestrian Story from the Pit of Hell The attention of the Federal University, Lokoja, has been drawn to a malicious, illogical and pedestrian news report credited to one Emmanuel Adeyemi and published in the sunnewsonline to the effect that the Vice Chancellor, Professor Olayemi Akinwumi, hasContinue Reading