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The Journal seeks to become the most reliable, first-choice Pan-Nigerian information and public knowledge platform. The Journal Nigeria is a serious Journalism from an African Worldview
The controversy surrounding Prof. Isa Ali Pantami’s elevation to the rank of professor has resurfaced, with fresh arguments over academic procedures, institutional accountability and the standards expected in Nigeria’s higher education system. The debate, which began after the Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO) appointed Pantami as Professor of Cybersecurity in 2021, has again…
Nigeria’s student financing landscape is undergoing one of its biggest transformations in decades as the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) expands access to tertiary education through a government-backed loan scheme that has attracted more than 1.6 million applications. The programme, launched to reduce financial barriers facing students in public tertiary institutions, has so far…
The Ladoke Akintola University of Technology, Ogbomoso, has dismissed as false and unauthorised a circulating notice instructing newly admitted students to sign the matriculation list on 23 September 2026. In a statement signed by the Registrar, Mrs Olayinka Balogun, the university management stated that the institution is currently on break and that no Faculty…
The National Business and Technical Examinations Board has opened another registration window for Nigerians seeking business and technical qualifications, but the significance of the 2026 November/December examinations extends beyond the September deadline. At a time when government and development partners are placing renewed emphasis on technical and vocational education, the growing attention to NABTEB raises…
The controversy surrounding the 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination results is no longer simply a dispute over whether some students performed below expectations. It has become a test of whether Nigeria can move millions of secondary school candidates into computer based examinations without weakening confidence in the results. Fresh allegations by a…
Thousands of candidates seeking admission for the 2026/2027 academic session are facing a new O’Level verification arrangement by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, but the change does not invalidate results already uploaded to the Board’s platform. JAMB recently introduced a system that allows candidates to verify and upload O’Level results remotely, beginning…
Secondary schools across Nigeria will lose the freedom to upload and amend students’ Continuous Assessment scores at will from the 2026/2027 session, following the Federal Government’s release of new operational guidelines that tie every candidate’s records to a national identity trail and fixed national deadlines. Under the guidelines, examination bodies including the West African…
Investigations across public secondary schools and the network of Federal Government Colleges, historically celebrated as Unity Schools, have exposed a startling reality in basic and secondary education. The functional majority of classroom instructors delivering daily lessons in core subjects, ranging from foundational mathematics and physical sciences to language arts, are not civil servants on the…
The Academic Staff Union of Universities has issued a 14-day strike ultimatum to 20 public universities across Nigeria. Union leaders authorised local branches to initiate industrial action over delayed implementation of the landmark 2025 FGN-ASUU agreement. The directive followed resolutions reached during the union’s National Executive Council meeting at the University of Abuja. President Christopher…
Nigeria’s tertiary education system left more than 700,000 approved admission spaces unfilled in 2025, even as millions of candidates competed for places, according to a new policy report that challenges the widely held assumption that the country’s admission crisis is primarily about insufficient capacity. The report, titled “The Admissions Gap: Who Gets into Nigeria’s…