In my last intervention on Nigeria’s education, an article which was widely syndicated, I remarked quite soundly that I can imagine the cloud of uncertainty and despair over most Nigerian students particularly those in their […]
This year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination has been a peculiar one. Unlike the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination that ‘escaped’ the COVID-19 saga, WAEC got caught in the web of the pandemic — as […]
Prof. Sulyman Abdulkareem, Vice-Chancellor, University of Ilorin, says no date has been fixed for resumption of academic activities for students of the university who had been out of school since the outbreak of COVID-19. Abdulkareem, […]
Two Anambra-born candidates came tops in the 2020 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) last April. The brilliant top-fliers are Miss Egoagwuagwu Agnes Madufokwa and Master David […]
Patrick Areghan, head, national officer of the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), says 1,549,731 candidates will sit for the upcoming West Africa Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) in 19,119 schools across the country. The 2020 […]
SOME of the critical sectors of our economy and society have been unfairly impacted by the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, not just in Nigeria but all over the world. These are aviation and other aspects of […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has shifted the post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) screening for the 2020 admission processes into universities, polytechnics and colleges of education till September 7. Ishaq Oloyede, the board […]
The feature story in The PUNCH, Monday, August 3, 2020, entitled, Stranger than fiction: How JAMB posted candidates living in Abeokuta to Zamfara for UTME, refers. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board finds it disheartening […]
It is argued that the going back and forth of the Ministry of Education shows unpreparedness of the country to face the realities of COVID-19 as schools reopen. After various pronouncements on reopening, postponing and […]
E-learning flops in Nigeria’s public universities because successive governments failed to invest in technologies and to support infrastructure, effective power supply and quality network connectivity. ICT experts and university teachers said underfunding of government-owned institutions […]
The Federal Government on Wednesday released the schedule for various national examinations for exit classes from August 17 to November 18, 2020. The government said the Senior School Certificate Examination conducted by the West African […]
Infrastructural decay exists in almost all sectors of Nigeria. The same rot seeps through the academic system and has today touched the very soul of the university system of the country: its information and communication […]
University teachers yesterday declared that they are ready to resume work if all the safety conditions spelt out for the reopening of schools by the government are fully met. Besides, they insisted that government must […]
Four students of the Bridge House College, Ikoyi, Lagos have bagged the 2019 Outstanding Cambridge International Learners’ Awards in the AS & A’ Level results. The school’s authorities regard the awards as a reaffirmation of […]
At the last count, over 183 countries, according to John Hopkins University, have been affected in one way or the other by the coronavirus pandemic with global infection rates passing 13,589,273. Of this number, 585,906 […]
“Our schools will only open when we believe it is safe for our children and that is when the situation is right, not when the incidence of the (Covid-19) infection is going up in the […]
The realities of COVID-19 and the havoc it wreaks defy conventions and threaten the future of tomorrow’s leaders. With the West African Examination Council (WAEC) slating its examination between August 5 and September, the Nigerian […]
The internal crisis rocking the University of Lagos (UNILAG) is far from over as the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is poised for a showdown with the institution’s governing council led by Dr. Wale […]
The federal government has released guidelines ahead of the resumption of schools at every level in the country. The guidelines for the safe reopening of schools and learning facilities after the COVID-19 pandemic outlined actions, […]
Matthew Prempeh, Ghanaian minister of education, says over 90 percent of the staff of the ministry have contracted coronavirus. According to Ghana Web, Prempeh said mass testing conducted at the ministry revealed that he is […]
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