Education

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has officially announced that only the results from the recent Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) resit will be recognized for candidates who were asked to retake the exam. This decision effectively nullifies the initial scores of those affected by the widespread technical and human errors that marred the…

The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has reaffirmed the Federal Government’s commitment to fully transitioning to Computer-Based Test (CBT) examinations for the West African Examinations Council (WAEC) and other exam bodies by 2026. Dr Alausa made this known while monitoring the conduct of WAEC’s CBT examinations in Abuja on Wednesday. He expressed optimism about…

Minister of Education, Dr. Olatunji Alausa affirmed this recommendation of the 17-man committee headed by Professor Is-haq Oloyede, Registrar of the Joint Administrations and Matriculation Board (JAMB) as chairman, on Improvement of the Quality of Examination in Nigeria. The committee which the Minister inaugurated in January this year, submitted its interim report to him on…

The House of Representatives has given the West African Examinations Council 24 hours to appear before it over growing concerns about the ongoing Senior School Certificate Examination. The ultimatum was issued on Thursday by Oboku Oforji, Chairman of the House Committee on Basic Education and Examination Bodies. Oforji said WAEC must appear on Friday, May…

The University of Ilorin has announced that the 2024/2025 Rain Semester Examinations will commence on Monday, 23rd June 2025, and end on Friday, 11th July 2025. In an internal memo from the Deputy Registrar, students were reminded to strictly adhere to the university’s examination rules and regulations. The notice also emphasized the prohibition of mobile…

Dozens of students sitting for the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination at Government Secondary School, Namnai, in Gassol Local Government Area of Taraba State narrowly escaped death on Wednesday evening after their classrooms collapsed during a downpour accompanied by a windstorm. The students, along with teachers, corps members, and external supervisors, were reportedly…

Application forms for the UBTH College of Nursing (UBTHCON) are available online on the UBTHCON website (conubth.edu.ng). Candidates must pay a non-refundable fee via the Remita platform to UBTH TSA, and then upload their completed forms and required documents online. The closing date for submitting completed forms is Friday, August 29, 2025. 

The sale of postgraduate application forms of the University of Ilorin (UNILORIN) for the 2025/2026 academic session closes on Saturday, 31st May 2025. This is a week extension of the earlier deadline of May 23rd, as announced previously by the University. Interested candidates are urged to do the needful before it closes.

The Teachers Registration Council of Nigeria (TRCN) has released the results of its recently concluded Professional Qualifying Examination (PQE), which was held nationwide between May 15 and 17, 2025. In a statement issued on Wednesday, TRCN disclosed that a total of 13,782 candidates registered for the examination but12,874 participated while 908 candidates were absent. “The…

REPRINT OF EXAMINATION MESSAGES IN CIRCULATION NOT FROM JAMB We wish to draw the public’s attention to the misleading messages circulating via spoofed version of our 66019 shortcode. These messages instruct candidates- some of whom have already sat the resit examination and received their results– to reprint examination slips for another examination. We hereby categorically…