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I Tore My NCE Certificate Because We Were Told That Western Education Was Sin, Now I Regret Doing So —Ex-Boko Haram Female Member

Fatima Musa, a former Boko Haram member who has undergone de-radicalisation, shared her experience at a community dialogue meeting organised recently by the Allamin Foundation for Peace and Development. She admitted that, as young people with limited religious knowledge, they had been misled. “We were deceived in our youth through a misinterpretation of religion, only […]

Ota Central Lions Club Supports Education With Free JAMB Forms For Indigent Students

In pursuit of Sustainable Development Goal 4 (Quality Education) and its commitment to youth empowerment, the Ota Central Lions Club has sponsored over 20 students, the majority of them girls, by providing free JAMB forms to support their academic aspirations. The initiative, led by Lion Abayomi Oke-Asiwaju, the Charter President, took place in Ado-Odo/Ota Local […]

Education Ministry Dismisses Reports On Scrapping JSS, SSS

The Ministry of Education on Friday clarified that the Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, merely proposed the introduction of a 12-year basic education system. The ministry stated that reports of an immediate policy change on the matter were untrue. Several media outlets had suggested that a new policy aimed at scrapping the Junior and Senior […]

JAMB Postpones 2025 UTME Registration Till Monday

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has announced the postponement of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination registration until Monday, February 3. The registration, initially scheduled to commence on Friday, January 31, was postponed to “allow the Board to implement essential adjustments to its registration templates.” The Board’s Public Communication Advisor, Fabian Benjamin, announced this […]

49 Final-Year Mapoly Students At risk Of expulsion Over Fake Results

No fewer than 49 Higher National Diploma final-year students of Moshood Abiola Polytechnic are on the verge of expulsion following a result verification process that exposed the alleged use of fake National Diploma results. VOA news learnt on Thursday from a result verification update released by the polytechnic that the students had allegedly presented fake ND […]

Nigerian Teacher Earns Prestigious Spot Among Top 50 Teachers Globally

Mr. Kayode Adewale, a Mathematics teacher at Imagbon/Imaka Comprehensive High School, Ogun State, has earned a spot among the 50 finalists for the prestigious 2025 Global Teacher Prize. The announcement was made in a statement released on the Global Teacher Prize website on Wednesday. Adewale, a STEM educator, teaches in a semi-urban area where most […]

Tinubu Congratulates Six Nigerian Scientists, Engineers On Biden’s Honours List

President Bola Tinubu has congratulated six distinguished Diaspora Nigerians named among the 400 Presidential Early Career Award recipients for Scientists and Engineers in the United States. VOA news reports that the prestigious recognition, established by former President Bill Clinton in 1996, is the highest honour bestowed by the United States government on outstanding scientists and […]

JAMB Says 2025 UTME Registration Yet To Start, Changes English Novel

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has clarified that registration for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry has yet to commence. The board assured candidates that details of the registration process will be announced in due course. In a statement shared on its official X account on Wednesday, JAMB also advised prospective […]

Best Graduating Student Got N13,000 As Cash Prize

A law graduate who had the best result in his set was awarded a prize that has shocked Nigerians. Not only was the brilliant graduate the best student, he also had the best result in numerous courses. Though he graduated in 2021, he just got his reward last week, on Nov. 25, 2024. The entire […]