Mama Put, Okada, Danfo, 26 Other Nigerian Words, Expressions Added In Oxford Dictionary
Oxford English Dictionary said it has added 29 Nigerian words and expressions in the January updates to the dictionary. “The majority of these new additions are either borrowings from Nigerian languages, or unique Nigerian coinages that have only begun to be used in English in the second half of the twentieth century, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s,” OED’s World...
BREAKING: President Buhari Reappoints Oloyede As JAMB Registrar
Professor Ishaq Oloyede has been reappointed as the Registrar/Chief Executive of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, by President Muhammadu Buhari. Buhari, on Friday reappointed Oloyede as JAMB Registrar for a second term of five years. Oloyede’s reappointment was made public by the Director, Press and Public Affairs, Federal Ministry of Education, Ben Bem Goong. In a statement he signed, Goong...
WAEC Commence CBT Exam, Mandates 250 Computers
The West African Examinations Council has outlined key facilities schools must provide ahead of the full migration of the West African Senior School Certificate Examination to computer-based testing by 2026. Head of Examinations, WAEC, Mr Lucky Njoagwuani, disclosed this on Thursday during a sensitisation programme in Port Harcourt. According to him, schools must put in place a minimum of 250 functional...
FG, ASUU Meets Ahead Of Worker’s Protest
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said it will be meeting with the Federal Government on July 25, 2024 over its unmet demands. This was as non-academic staff of universities declared on Sunday that they were set for a one-day protest on Tuesday on campuses over their withheld four-month salaries. The one-day protest would be a prelude to a...
Universities To Reopen January – Minister
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige, says the Academic Activities in Nigeria Universities will resume in January. He says the negotiations between the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and the Federal government had reached 98 percent, adding that it remains only two percent to be completed He spoke Monday in Alor, Idemili South local government area of...
Abia Govt To Pay Students 30k Each, Scraps ABSU 15k “Pandemic Prevention Fee”
Abia State Government has said all students of the state-owned university, Abia State University (ABSU) are now to be paid the sum of N30,000 each to help mitigate the impact of COVID-19 on them and families. The state government also reversed an earlier circular instructing student to pay the sum of N15,000 pandemic prevention fee. In a statement personally issued by...
NECO Examiners Threaten Protest Over Unpaid Entitlements
Examiners hired by the National Examination Council to grade the 2024 students' exams have threatened to stage a nationwide protest for failure to be paid for their work. It was learned that the examiners have started mobilizing their colleagues across the states for the planned protest. A letter written to the NECO Chief Registrar at the National Headquarters in Minna by...
JAMB Releases New Date For Commencement Of UTME, Direct Entry Registration
The Joint Admission and Matriculations Board, JAMB says the 2022/23 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination( UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) Registrations will now commence Saturday, February 19th, and end on the 26th of March 2022. The board had earlier scheduled the exercise for February 12, 2022. However, in a notice on Tuesday, JAMB said the postponement was to enable “more fine-tuning of the...
Jubilation As Chief Dan Okeke Donates Education Materials To Arochukwu, Ohafia Students (Video)
The APC candidate for House of Representatives Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency, High Daniel Chimezie Okeke has donated educational items to students in Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency. At the presentation of the items on Tuesday, High Chief Daniel Chimezie Okeke who was represented by High Chief Stephen Kalu Nwankwo and Dr. Benedict Offor narrated that his philanthropic gestures were borne out of his...
We’ve Not Decided Yet To Call Off Strike — ASUU President
It is still uncertain whether the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, will end soon as President of the union, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi said there were certain steps to be taken to reach that final conclusion on the issue. Professor Ogunyemi told Tribune (not ABN TV) in an exclusive interview on Saturday that even though government...
