The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has fixed the minimum cut-off mark for admission into Nigerian universities at 150 for the 2025/2026 academic session. The decision was announced at the 2025 Policy Meeting on Admissions, held on Tuesday at the Bola Ahmed Tinubu Conference Centre in Abuja. According to a statement by JAMB via…
The Federal Government has officially set 16 years as the minimum age for admission into tertiary institutions in Nigeria. This was announced by the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, on Tuesday during the policy meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in Abuja, who also reiterated that the official entry age of…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced the release of results for its mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held on Saturday, June 28, 2025. Out of 96,838 candidates scheduled for the exercise, results for 11,161 candidates who sat the exam have been released. In a statement released by the public communication advisor,…
The Federal Government has inaugurated a Ministerial Research and Innovation Commercialisation Committee (RICC) to bridge the longstanding disconnect between Nigeria’s research institutions and the industrial sector. The inauguration ceremony, held on Wednesday at the Minister of Education in Abuja, was presided over by the Minister of Education, Dr Morufu Olatunji Alausa. The Minister described the…
The Executive Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Ola Olukoyede has charged youths in the country to join hands with the EFCC in combating corruption, economic and financial crimes. He gave this charge while addressing the students of the National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN, Abuja center, who came on an excursion…
The National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) has announced plans to stage a mass protest in Abuja on Wednesday, 2 July, over the prolonged closure of public primary schools in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT). The protest, which will see students donning black in symbolic mourning for what they described as the “death of basic…
Unless urgent interventions by the administration of the Federal Capital Territory FCTA, to salvage an already bad situation, Nigeria will in no distant time make do with mediocrity for her future leaders, with yawning education gaps, and as children in the FCT face indefinite closure of their schools due to strike embarked by their teachers….
Korede Abdullah in Lagos A Nigerian researcher at Florida State University’s Department of Mathematics, Zainab Dere has recorded a phenomenal feat by offering a promising alternative: using viruses to combat drug-resistant bacteria, as antibiotic resistance threatens global health. Her study, recently published in the Mathematical Biosciences Journal, focuses on bacteriophages—viruses that target and infect bacteria….
… Headteacher Says Situation Remains for the Past 2 Years, Decries Decay … Community Laments Deplorable State Hussaini Kafi in Kano A 55- year-old Sabon Garin Jido Primary School in Talatar Jido, Dawakin Kudu Local Government Area of Kano State is in a state of decay, Africa Health Report, AHR, investigations have revealed. The…
…Rights Groups Kick NYSC’s Action A Nigerian corps member, Rita Ushie—known online as Raye—has had her National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) year extended by two months after posting a viral TikTok video criticising President Bola Tinubu’s administration. The move, which follows her March post describing Nigeria’s economic crisis and calling the Tinubu-led government “terrible”,…
