The Federal Government has rolled out a N80 billion intervention scheme offering N2 billion each to 40 selected tertiary institutions across Nigeria to boost commercial farming, agrarian research, and sustainable food production.
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The University of Benin is recruiting hundreds of academic and non-academic staff to replace vacancies left by a 10-year employment freeze.
The Nigerian Education Loan Fund has launched a pilot tokenised payment system allowing students to authorise direct fee transfers to their institutions and stop duplicate payments.
An ICPC investigator testified in an Abuja Federal High Court that UNN and the NYSC disowned the academic and service certificates of former minister Uche Nnaji.
Only 108 of 39,000 underage UTME candidates passed the Federal Government’s rigorous screening evaluating UTME scores, post-UTME performance, O-level results, and emotional readiness for university admission.
WAEC records 56,000 private candidate registrations for the 2026 WASSCE as Head of National Office Suleiman Kum credits CBT adoption with drastically reducing examination malpractice.
The Federal Government has unveiled a proposed harmonized timetable for the 2027 external examinations—scheduling the UTME for March—aimed at releasing all major SSCE results by August 2027 to enable a uniform September academic session kick-off for tertiary institutions.
The Universal Basic Education Commission has unveiled details of a major educational intervention program aimed at reaching 29 million Nigerian children and training over 500,000 primary school teachers across the federation. The initiative, funded through a 552 million dollar grant Read more…
The Federal Ministry of Education has called on labor unions across Nigeria’s tertiary education sector to prioritize continuous dialogue over industrial actions. The government emphasized that constructive negotiation remains the most effective pathway to resolving long-standing labor disputes without disrupting Read more…
Several higher education institutions in the United Kingdom have begun canceling study offers previously extended to prospective Nigerian candidates following a sharp tightening of immigration scrutiny by British authorities. The pre-emptive move stems from institutional fears that elevated rejection rates Read more…
