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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…
A senior official of the West African Examination Council (WAEC) has advocated for the widespread adoption of Computer Based Testing (CBT) as the primary strategy to eliminate examination malpractice, specifically targeting the phenomenon of unverified “miracle centres” that threaten the integrity of public examinations. Timothy Manga, an official with the WAEC office in Makurdi, Benue…
Newly appointed JAMB Registrar Segun Aina relocated his desk into the agency’s complaint unit. The direct move cleared over 5,000 backlogged candidate grievances within five days. Bureaucratic sluggishness usually cripples public service delivery across state agencies. Sitting beside frustrated desk officers forces immediate administrative focus on operational failure points. Candidates pay mandatory fees. Executive presence…
Nearly one in every twelve candidates who sat this year’s West African Senior School Certificate Examination for School Candidates has ended the season in a state of limbo, with the West African Examinations Council confirming that the results of 167,486 candidates, representing 8.59 per cent of those who sat the 2026 Computer-Based WASSCE, have…
Barely hours after the West African Examinations Council announced the release of the 2026 Computer Based West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates, a document bearing the council’s letterhead, stamps and the signature of its Nigeria National Office head began spreading across WhatsApp groups and social media timelines, naming 50 secondary schools…
The West African Examinations Council released results for the 2026 first-series computer-based examination for private candidates. Nearly a third of examinees secured credits in five core subjects, including Mathematics and English Language. Over 10,400 candidates sat for tests across 166 centers nationwide between late January and mid-February. Overall performance improved by nearly six percentage points…
Nigeria’s tertiary admissions system changed hands on Friday as Prof. Segun Aina formally took over as Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, promising an uncompromising campaign against examination fraud in an institution that processes the ambitions of more than two million young Nigerians every year. At the handover ceremony at the…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board will on Friday close one of the longest and most consequential chapters in its history, as its Registrar, Professor Ishaq Oloyede, formally transfers power to his successor, Professor Segun Aina, at a ceremony in Abuja. The board confirmed that the handover holds on Friday, July 31, 2026, from…
Two foreign institutions cited as proof of the credibility of a Cameroonian university that awarded a doctorate to a Nigerian governorship candidate have said they have no record of any relationship with the institution, dealing a blow to efforts by the candidate’s camp to validate the qualification. The University of Wisconsin-Madison in the United…
