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 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
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…
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…