No fewer than 1,959,636 candidates from 24,207 schools are participating in the ongoing Computer-Based West African Senior School Certificate Examination (CB-WASSCE) for school candidates. The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) announced this yesterday in Lagos at a media briefing addressed by its...

A final year student of the University of Benin has been shot dead. The victim was shot in front of the main gate of UNIBEN Ugbowo campus. Witnesses said the victim was driving a GLK Mercedes-Benz when he was attacked. Two other passengers in the vehicle who survived the attack were rushed to the Univer...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has warned of a looming strike in the university system, accusing the Federal Government of failing to fully implement the 2025 FGN-ASUU Agreement and distorting key provisions of the deal. The union raised the alarm in a statement following its National E...

Kwara State University, Malete, has announced plans to discontinue its Top-Up/HND Conversion programme from the 2025/2026 academic session in compliance with directives from the National Universities Commission. The institution disclosed this in a public announcement on Monday, signed by the Registrar,...

The Federal Government has declared that any admission conducted outside the Central Admissions Processing System is illegal, warning tertiary institutions across the country that violations of approved admission procedures will attract sanctions. The Minister of Education, Maruf Alausa, issued the warn...

The Minister of Education, Tunji Alausa, on Monday announced that the Federal Government has retained 16 years as the minimum age for admission into tertiary institutions across Nigeria. Alausa made the announcement during the 2026 Policy Meeting on Admissions to Tertiary Institutions held in Abuja, not...