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Education

FG Wants Foreign Universities To Obey Stipulated Guidelines

  The Federal Government has tasked foreign universities operating in Nigeria toadhere strictly to the country’s guidelines on transnational education as developed by the National Universities Commission (NUC). Minister of State for Education, Dr. Yusuf Tanko Sununu gave the directive in Abuja when he received thechancellor of one of the oldest universities in the United States of America, Rutgers University, Camden. In a statement by the Director Press & Public […]

todayJanuary 12, 2024 10

Education

Degree Racketeering : FG Probes Over 100 Universities

The Federal Government has constituted an eight-man inter-ministerial committee to probe some institutions amid worries by its latest discovery of illegal degrees from foreign universities. Inaugurating the committee in Abuja on Tuesday, the Minister of Education, Professor Tahir Mamman, disclosed that the probe will also extend to private universities in Nigeria. The Minister tasked them to do their job diligently without fear or favour. Daily Post reported that the committee […]

todayJanuary 10, 2024 6

Education

Resumption : FCTA To Sanction School Managers With Low Turnout

  By Remi Johnson The Federal Capital Territory Administration is to sanction any school principal that records low turn out of students in public schools for poor management. The Secretary, FCTA Education Secretariat, Dr Danlami Hayyo, stated this when he led the management team on an inspection to selected Public and Private Schools to ascertain level of resumption compliance in Abuja. Dr Hayyo who expressed satisfaction over the turn out […]

todayJanuary 8, 2024 37 1

Education

NANS President Benin Republic Demands Arrest Of Reporter

The National Association of Nigerian Students President for Benin Republic, Ugochukwu Favour, has called for the arrest of the reporter, Umar Audu, who went undercover to expose corruption in the issuance of certificates in the country. Speaking in an interview on Thursday on the Channels TV programme Sunrise Daily, Favour slammed the reporter for having his passport stamped and obtaining certificates without being physically present. “Your passport was stamped while […]

todayJanuary 5, 2024 21

Education

Bill To Establish 47 New Varsities Scales Second Reading

The number of federal-owned universities in Nigeria may hit 99 in the coming months as a bill to establish 47 new ones has scaled through the second reading. This is just as about 56 bills have passed for the second reading to establish Federal Medical Centres in different parts of the country. The PUNCH reports that currently, there are 52 federal universities in Nigeria, with some states of the federation […]

todayJanuary 5, 2024 10

Education

Over 37 illegal Universities Operating In Nigeria – NUC

The Nigerian Government has released a list of at least 37 illegal universities operating in the country. Chris Maiyaki, the Acting Secretary of the National Universities Commission, NUC, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Abuja. According to him, arrests have been made in conjunction with security operatives. The NUC Secretary urged parents to check the commission’s website for illegal and legal varsities in Nigeria so that their wards […]

todayJanuary 4, 2024 12

Education

FG Suspends Evaluation, Accreditation Of Degree Certificates From Benin, Togo

By Nkiru Okeke The Federal Government has suspended the evaluation and accreditation of degree certificates from Benin and Togo Republics. The suspension followed a recent publication by an online newspaper which unraveled how a Cotonou university issued a degree certificate to an undercover journalist within 6 weeks and participated in the NYSC scheme. In a statement by Augustina Obilor-Duru on behalf of the Director Press and Public Relations of the […]

todayJanuary 2, 2024 8 4

Education

FG Targets 15 Million Out-Of-School Enrolment By 2027

      The Federal Government has expressed commitment to return 15 million out-of-school children back to the classroom by 2027. The Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, disclosed this in Abuja on Thursday at a one-day retreat on Quick Wins in the Ministerial Deliverables (2023-2027). Mamman explained that the learning crisis had also been a major issue which he said was a bad product of the out-of-school menace, hence, […]

todayDecember 22, 2023 6

Education

House To Check Discrepancies In JAMB Remittances To FG

  By Oduyemi Odumade The House of Representatives is to set up a committee to look into discrepancies in the remittances of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, to the coffers of the Federal Government. The decision to set up the committee followed the non reconciliation discovered in the books of the examination body and the account of the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation. Appearing before […]

todayDecember 21, 2023 15

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