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WASSCE not cancelled; WAEC not making refunds

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has said it has not cancelled the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for school candidates 2020 as claimed by some social media posts. The Council is also not refunding N22’500 to candidates for cancelling the examination WAEC’s Head of National Office, Mr. Patrick Areghan, said in a […]

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3,000 youths to benefit from Kwara digital training

Kwara State Government in partnership with Google and Wootlab Foundation, will be starting a two-week virtual digital training for youths in the state. In a statement made available by the Chief Press Secretary to the Governor, Rafiu Ajakaye, the training scheduled to start on April 27, was an initiative of the Digital Kwara component of

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Properties ICPC seized from Dibu Ojerinde, Ex-JAMB Registrar

The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC has taken over several properties belonging to a former registrar of the Joint Admission Matriculation Board, JAMB, Professor Dibu Ojerinde. The seizure followed a court order from a federal high court in Abuja. The order which was published in a national daily on Friday instructed

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Registration of new students ongoing at Open University – Management

The Management of the National Open University of Nigeria (NOUN) said on Thursday that its registration portal would remain open in spite of the lockdown occasioned by the COVID-19 pandemic until new entrants complete their admission procedures. A statement issued on Thursday by Mr Ibrahim Sheme, Director of Media and Publicity, NOUN, stated that the

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NABTEB Postpones 2020 Exams Indefinitely

The National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB) has postponed the 2020 May/June Ordinary Level Certificate Examinations indefinitely , due to the Coronavirus pandemic. The postponement was announced on Thursday by Prof. Ifeoma Isiugo-Abanihe, NABTEB’s Registrar/Chief Executive Officer. She said: “The 2020 May/June series of the NABTEB certificate examinations, which are for in-school candidates, originally

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Online teaching not alternative to classroom – NUT Chairman

Adedoyin Adesina, chairman of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Lagos chapter, says that online education can only curb redundancy among students but can’t replace the classrooms. The NUT chairman made it known that parents have been complaining of the high fees being demanded by the privately own schools towards teaching their students online for

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COVID-19: FUTO sensitises host communities

The Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) has set up the COVID-19 Advisory Committee to educate the staff, students and members of the institution’s host communities about the novel Coronavirus and how to avoid getting infected. In an interaction with the traditional rulers of the host communities, the chairman of the FUTO COVID-19 Advisory Committee,

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