The Acting Registrar, National Examination Council, Abubakar Gana, has attibuted the drop in the number of candidates in the 2019 Common Entrance Examination into Federal Government schools to lack of sponsorship by some politicians.
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The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has assured candidates of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination that results would be ready from April 29.
Some secondary school teachers, recruited in September 2018 under the previous Ayodele Fayose-led Ekiti State Government, on Thursday stormed the streets, protesting against alleged isolation from staff payroll and non-payment of seven months salary arrears.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has described as fake, a trending report that scores of candidates who sat for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination are being reduced.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says it would reach out to candidates through their telephones as soon as all the results of the 2019 UTME were ratified.
The Chancellor, Westland University, Dr Wole Adepoju, says the institution is set to tackle the craze for importation in the country.
Caleb International School Lagos has dissociated itself from Lizzy, a drug abused teenager, whose story was circulated on the social media and currently at the Freedom Foundation Rehabilitation, Lekki.
The police in Ibadan on Thursday arraigned three persons in an Iyaganku Magistrates’ Court for alleged double registration in the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination organised by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board.
Hajiya Isa Mele, the Focal Person, Social Investment Projects in Gombe State, says the school feeding programme of the Federal Government has increased school enrolment by 15 per cent in the state.
The National Homegrown School Feeding Programme is being implemented in 30 states of the federation at present, the presidency has said in a statement.
The National Universities Commission says it is currently processing applications for 303 new private universities to cater for the demand of tertiary education in the country.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board on Monday said it has uncovered and arrested over 50 ‘Professional Examination Writers’ who specialized in writing examination for candidates for a fee.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says it arrested a third year medical student and another undergraduate for attempting to write the ongoing Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination for candidates.
Sola Kuye, the Coordinator of the JAMB Zonal Office in Ibadan, has given an assurance that all registered candidates would write the 2019 University Tertiary Matriculation Examination in spite of some challenges currently being experienced.
The National Examinations Council has postponed the 2019 National Common Entrance Examination into unity schools to April 27.
The Borno Government on Wednesday said it had constructed 45 mega schools to cater for the education of children orphaned by Boko Haram insurgency in the state.
The Federal High Court, Ibadan, on Wednesday, reserved until Thursday, judgment in the case between Communication Minister, Adebayo Shittu and All Progressives Congress over the party’s primary election.
The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board says there is no clash between its timetable and the West African Examination Council as being widely speculated and criticised.
The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics has threatened to embark on a one week national strike over alleged failure of the Federal Government to implement the agreement it reached with the union recently.
The National Bureau of Statistics says the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board recorded a 4.01 per cent drop in the applications received in 2018.