Education

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that candidates below the age of 16 may be considered for admission into tertiary institutions if they achieve an outstanding score of 80% or higher in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The decision follows the recent reversal of the mandatory 18-year admission age policy introduced by former Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman. The current Minister of Education, Olatunji Alausa, has […]

The Federal Government has proposed a 12-year basic education model; however refuting reports that it has scrapped the Junior and Senior Secondary School systems. A statement by the Ministry of Education noted that the Minister, Tunji Alausa made the statement at the Extraordinary National Council on Education Meeting held in Abuja where he presented it as a proposal for discussion, but not an immediate policy change. Speaking with newsmen, the […]

Human Rights Lawyer, Femi Falana, has frowned at the recent hike in school fees by the Federal and Lagos State governments, describing it as illegal. It will be recalled that the federal government had in July 2023 increased fees for Unity Schools from N45,000 to N100,000 per term, an increase of over 120 percent. Similarly, the Lagos State Government, during the weekend announced N100,000 as the new fee for the […]

As the September 20 deadline for the payment of school fees approaches at the University of Ibadan, many student groups in the institution have reached out to the public to crowdfund to pay for the tuition fees of their members. The University of Ibadan Student Union along with the Faculties of Pharmacy and Nursing, and the Departments of Agronomy, Physiology, and Nutrition Science, have solicited funds to ensure that no […]