The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) continues to update the list of prohibited items on its official website and its social media handles following different tactics used by the highly-techy candidates for the examination. Before now, JAMB prohibited items that candidates are not allowed to take into the examination hall were not up to … Read more
JAMB examination slip contains details of applicants including their names, date of birth, gender, state and local government of origin, the registration number of candidates, and the institutions of choice of the candidates. JAMB issues registration slip after the completion of registration while each candidate is expected to reprint the exam slip. In the registration … Read more
Before establishing the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) in 1978, the only seven universities owned by the federal government of Nigeria at the time conducted their entrance examination and solely determined who was qualified. JAMB is one of the agencies of Nigeria’s Federal Ministry of Education. It’s one of the most active in the education … Read more
Since 1958 till date, the Federal Ministry of Education in Nigeria has produced 47 Ministers of Education. Aja Nwachukwu was the first Nigerian minister of education while the incumbent Minister of Education is Prof. Tahir Maman (SAN). Nwachukwu was in office from 1958 to 1965. He handed over Richard Akinjide who oversaw the ministry from 1965 to … Read more
What is WAEC Grading System? The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) employs a grading system for evaluating students’ performances in the West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). WAEC Grading System And Their Meaning With all three examinations conducted each year by the examination body, the same grading system applies in Nigeria for candidates who … Read more
There are 221 universities in Nigeria that legitimately have the National Universities Commission (NUC) licence to operate. Here is how the universities spread among the three major stakeholders (federal, state, and private organisation/individuals): What does NUC do? National Universities Commission or NUC is the biggest parastatal or agency under Nigeria’s Ministry of Education. It is … Read more
The grading system in Nigerian secondary schools may not be the same as it is in the UK, United States and other countries around the world. In this post, you’ll see the SUBEB grading system in Nigeria. Grading in education is the process of applying standardized measurements of varying levels of achievement in a course. … Read more
Whenever the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC) releases the results of May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE), the most important figure that gets students worried is withheld results. Background The examination body released the results of the 2022 West African Senior School Certificate Examination on August 9, 2022, saying that 365,564 results of candidates … Read more
The 2023/2024 academic session of Lagos State University LASU begins on Monday, January 15, 2024, while the session will come to close on Monday, September 30, 2024, according to the institution’s Senate at its 305th Statutory Meeting. After deliberating on the proposal of the Committee of Provost, Deans and Directors (COPDD), it stated that the first … Read more
In Nigeria where religious and ethnic bigotry prevails over any other things, you would hardly believe that a core Hausa-Muslim woman could leave in another core Igbo land for more than two decades and speak their language fluently. Igbo language is the dominant language of the South-East States of Anambra, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi, and Abia. … Read more