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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 Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND) has told tertiary institutions that no student can be forced to take a student loan. The Fund said on Wednesday that borrowing under the scheme is a personal decision for students who genuinely need financial help. It warned schools and student leaders against giving students the impression that applying…
The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities (SSANU) has called off its threat of an indefinite strike after the Federal Government released eight months of salary arrears owed to its members under the 2026 FGN/SSANU Agreement. The union’s National President, Comrade Mohammed Haruna Ibrahim, said the decision followed the approval and release of the…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board says thousands of graduates who have been unable to join the National Youth Service Corps for years may finally be cleared to serve. The board’s Registrar, Professor Segun Aina, said JAMB was launching a National Identification Number alignment service that would allow candidates to correct their biodata to…
 The Universal Basic Education Commission says the $552.18m World Bank-backed HOPE-EDU programme will cover 65,000 public schools, 500,000 teachers and 10,000 non-formal learning centres, while supporting the construction of 13,000 classrooms. The Universal Basic Education Commission (UBEC) has announced that a $552.18m World Bank-funded education programme will target 29 million children and 500,000 teachers…
The National Universities Commission will begin monitoring universities after their programmes have been accredited and will check whether institutions are admitting more students than they can accommodate, its Executive Secretary, Prof. Abdullahi Yusufu Ribadu, has said. Ribadu announced the measures on Tuesday in Abuja at the opening of the commission’s 2026 retreat with vice-chancellors…
More than 267 billion naira in basic education intervention funds sat idle in government accounts as of August, while seventy per cent of Nigerian primary school pupils cannot read a single sentence of simple text. Universal Basic Education Commission head Dr Aisha Garba, represented by director Maryam Sani Dangaji, delivered that grim indictment in Abuja…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has warned candidates that admission offers made outside its Central Admissions Processing System (CAPS) may not be recognised. The board said accepting such offers could jeopardise a student’s academic journey and create problems with admission records. The caution, posted on X on Monday, comes weeks before the deadline…
The Federal Government has said the growing use of artificial intelligence and other digital tools will not reduce the value of teachers, arguing that the judgement, encouragement and personal connection a teacher provides cannot be reproduced by machines. The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, made the point in Abuja on Monday while marking…
Nigerians living in Canada may soon be able to sit for the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination without flying home, following an announcement by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board that it intends to open a UTME centre in Ottawa from 2027. JAMB made the disclosure in a statement on its official social media platforms,…
The Federal Government has fixed 15 December 2026 to complete a national ranking of Nigeria’s universities, polytechnics and colleges of education, with universities to be scored on 22 indicators. The details were disclosed by Prof. Peter Okebukola, chairman of the Nigerian Tertiary Education Ranking Advisory Committee, in a presentation dated 30 September 2026 on…