Education

JAMB has directed all institutions to commence the sale of UTME screening forms for the 2024 admission exercise

There’s no such thing as ‘cut-off mark’ in admission process to tertiary institutions in Nigeria, what’s obtainable is minimum tolerable score determinable by individual institutions. The minimum score for Universities will be 140 while, Polytechnic and College of Education will be 100 for the 2024/2025 Admissions

367 has been announced as the highest score for the 2024 UTME. Olowu Joseph, Alayande David and Orukpe Joel emerged as top scorers. Others are:

The University of Ilorin, Ilorin (UNILORIN) has emerged the most sought-after university for 2024 admissions as 64,343 applicants chose the university as their preferred choice during the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME).

Stakeholders currently participating at the 2024 Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) policy meeting were rattled when the Minister of Education, Professor Mamman Tahir announced that candidates seeking admission into higher institutions must be 18 years and above. Immediately the Minister made the comment in his address and policy directive, the crowd roared “no, no,…

2024/2025 LASUED INDEPENDENT INDIGENESHIP VERIFICATION EXERCISE FOR CANDIDATES WHO ARE INDIGENES OF LAGOS STATE ●All candidates of Lagos State Origin who chose Lagos State University of Education as First Choice in the 2024 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME) and scored a minimum of 170 are hereby informed that the online registration for Independent Indigeneship Verification…

The Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Associated Institutions (NASU) and Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) have commenced a one day nationwide protest over their four-month withheld salaries. Their protest has led to disruption in administrative work in universities and inter – university Centres. As early as 7:30am, the union members converged on…

Students of tertiary institutions who have successfully applied for the Federal Government’s loan scheme and who are starting fresh academic sessions will begin to receive credit alerts from next week, said NELFUND. “The people who are going to first receive alerts as early as next week are the people who are about to start a…

Barring last-minute interventions, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU, and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Universities and Associated Institutions, NASU, will commence a protest in the nation’s capital Abuja on Thursday. The protest which is expected to kick off from the Unity Fountain Abuja by 8am will see the affected staff matching to…

Akintunde Sawyerr, the managing director of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), says over 110,000 applications have been received for the student loan scheme. Sawyerr was at the ceremonial launch of the student loan application portal at the statehouse council chambers in Abuja. He said 160,000 students had registered for the scheme while over 110,000…