EDUCATION

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has expressed satisfaction over the conduct of its 2022 mop-up Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) held in 45 centres across the country on Saturday. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the examination was for candidates who could not participate in the …

Benin City – The Edo State Government has disclosed plans to recruit 1,000 new secondary school teachers and train 650 others on digital teaching methods. The Commissioner for Education, Dr. Joan Osa-Oviawe said this during an interactive session with journalists on the preparedness of the Ministry of Education for the …

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has said the state-owned Ambrose Alli University (AAU) is being repositioned to become self-sustaining, ensuring a world-class institution of learning capable of producing globally-competitive graduates. Obaseki stated this while addressing members of the Edo State chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC), led …

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has extended its roll-over strike by another four weeks to give government more time to satisfactorily resolve all the outstanding issues. The President of ASUU, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, made this known in a statement in Abuja on Monday. Osodeke said that the roll-over …

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says there is no uniform minimum national Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) score for any of the tiers of tertiary institutions and neither does JAMB decide any such requirement for any institution. The board made this known in Abuja on Monday by its …

The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, has hailed Edo indigene, Engr. George Imafidon, who has been recognized by the United Kingdom’s Royal Academy of Engineering as the Young Engineer of the Year, receiving the Sir George Macfarlane Medal. In a statement, the governor described Imafidon’s feat as extraordinary and …

Benin city — A Non-governmental organization under the aegis of Network for Advancement of Persons With Visible Disabilities (NAPVID), alongside other critical stakeholders have come up with a blueprint to guide inclusive educational system in Edo state. The stakeholders at a 1-day meeting held on Thursday at the Bishop Kelly …

Benin City – The Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, on Tuesday, called on the Federal Government to, in the interest of Nigerian students, expedite actions to immediately end the five-month-old strike embarked upon by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The governor gave the charge when he received …

Benin City – The Edo State Government has said the ongoing census of public and private schools in the state will help in improving the standard of education in the state. Addressing journalists after visiting selected schools in Benin City, Edo State Commissioner for Education, Dr. Joan Osa-Oviawe, said the …

Rector, Auchi Polytechnic, Auchi, Dr. Shehu Umar yesterday warmed the newly admitted students of the polytechnic against cultism, examination malpractice and other vices that would be inimical to their academic progress of their lives. Dr. Umar gave the warning during the institution’s 40th matriculation ceremony, said that the polytechnic had …