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  Liberia’s education minister says she finds it hard to believe that not a single candidate passed this year’s university admission exam. Nearly 25,000 school-leavers failed the test for admission to the University of Liberia, one of two state-run universities. The students lacked enthusiasm and did not have a basic grasp of English, a university […]

  National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, plans to hold a nation-wide protest as a last resort to force the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, to end the protracted strike of university lecturers. NANS’ President, Yinka Gbadebo, responding to allegations that the students’ body was not bothered by the 60-day-old

  De Raufs, a volunteer group extolling the virtues of Rauf Aregbesola, the Governor of Osun State has volunteered to sponsor 15-year-old stowaway boy, Daniel Ohikhena who  hid in the tyre compartment of Arik air flight from Benin to Lagos. In a statement by the Director General of the group, Comrade Amitolu Shittu, the group

  The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS), yesterday issued a one-week ultimatum to the Federal Government and the union’s leadership to resolve their differences or face corrosive consequences. The students have vowed that they would take their destinies in their own hands if the parties failed to reconcile within a week and that they

  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, announced, yesterday, that it had concluded the first round of admissions into degree-awarding institutions. A statement by JAMB, signed by its Head Public Relations, Mr. Fabian Benjamin, in Abuja, said all candidates that made degree-awarding institutions their first choices or most-preferred are enjoined to check the Board’s

  The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’I, said on Thursday in Abuja that French would be part of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) as from 2014 for interested  candidates. Rufa’I said this at a farewell reception held in honour of the French Language Project Manager, Mr Jean-Phillipe Roy. She said that being multi-lingual

  At nine years, Master Lucky Ayolu, from Ekeni in Southern Ijaw Local Government of Bayelsa State, lost his father and mother.. Unexpectedly, life became cruel to him as he learnt to fend for himself. He told newsmen that he took to fishing to pay for his fees in primary and secondary schools, as his

  The Federal Government on Tuesday claimed it had met almost all the demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities after releasing an additional N30 billion to the union. Gabriel Suswam, Chairman of the National Economic Empowerment Development Strategy (NEEDS) assessment implementation committee for universities, said that the Ministry of Education would disburse the

  Unless handlers of schools and the education system engage the services of qualified Mathematics teachers and expose them to universal modern tools, the incidence of mass failure in the subject will continue, Mathematical Association of Nigeria has said. President, MAN, Prof. Uche Agwagah, who stated this on Tuesday in Asaba, Delta State, while answering

  The federal government has said that students guilty of cheating on school certificate examinations would spend five years in jail or be liable to a N250 000 fine. Education Minister Prof Ruqayyat Rufai made the announcement after a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan wherein a bill to amend