Thirty-one inmates of the Kuje Prison, Abuja, who sat for the 2014 NOV/DEC Senior Secondary School Examination have been presented their certificates at the facility by a representative of the Controller-General of Prisons, DCP Musa Tanko, Punch reports. The inmates were sponsored by a non-governmental organisation, NUGA BEST, which paid for their enrollment for the
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See, going to Maths class pays! Adding to the numerous reasons you should take education seriously is this quite hilarious but very serious situation. An Indian bride has refused to marry her groom to be after he failed a simple maths test. The bride was said to have openly asked her groom-to-be to add 15
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Two candidates that sat, weekend, for the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination UTME computer base test have been arrested by the security agents for alleged malpractices during the test. The candidates were arrested at Esa-Oke, in Obokun Local Government Area of Osun State. The candidates were alleged to have conspired with one Mr. Adebayo a.k.a
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Department for International Development, an agency of the United Kingdom, has inaugurated the Teacher Development Programme to boost learning in six northern states. The programme will train 62,000 school teachers, 4,000 student teachers and 816 teacher educators in the six states. The beneficiaries of the TDP arrangement, which is aimed at improving the quality of
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Among the 1,475,477 candidates to sit for the 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam are 208 prison inmates, the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has said. The board announced this through its Registrar, Prof. Dibu Ojerinde in Abuja on Thursday. More than half of the 208 prison inmates are visually impaired candidates. The prison inmates are from Kaduna
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Over a million candidates are supposed to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Exam beginning from March 9th and just few days to the commencement of the exam, there has been many protests in different states across the country. On March 3, 2015, we reported that police arrested 50 protesting JAMB candidates in Benue. Unfortunately,
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The 2015 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME billed to commence on Monday, March 9 has been greeted with confusion and irregularities, as candidates struggle to access the website of JAMB to print examination slips without a success. Complaints from candidates revealed that they were subjected to pay extra charges of N100 to check their examination
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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said that the 2015 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examinations, UTME, will commence next week March 9, across the country. Its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Fabian Benjamin, told Vanguard, yesterday: “All the logistics for the examination have been put in place and the examination will start on March
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The Benue Police Command on Monday arrested 50 candidates of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for violent protests and stoning of security officials. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Hyacinth Dagala, said the police intervened to prevent breakdown of law and order when the candidates started throwing stones at JAMB officials. According
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President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday announced automatic employments and scholarships for post-graduate studies for 164 former members of the National Youth Service Corps. Jonathan made the announcement at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, during the 2014 President’s NYSC Honours Award and the flag off of the NYSC Hope Alive Programme aimed at helping corps members who
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