The management of Kwara State Polytechnic, Ilorin, has suspended a lecturer captured in a viral video physically assaulting candidates of the Interim Joint Matriculation Board programme within the institution’s premises. The video, which surfaced on social media on Monday, showed the lecturer caning sev...
Multiple schools in England were shutting early Tuesday and set to remain closed for two more days, with a heatwave expected to set new records in the UK as it spreads across Europe. The UK’s meteorological office issued an extremely rare red heat warning — only issued once before — for Wednesday and Th...
The National President of the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Audu Titus Amba, has expressed concern over the growing wave of insecurity affecting schools across Nigeria, warning that the trend poses a serious threat to the future of education in the country. Speaking with journalists in Jalingo at the...
The National Association of Nigerian Students has threatened to embark on peaceful mass action, including the occupation of the headquarters of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund, over what it described as a two-month delay in the disbursement of students’ upkeep allowances. The students’ body said the de...
The National Universities Commission has approved six new full-time programmes at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, effective from the 2026/2027 academic session for the University of Benin. A statement on Sunday by the institution’s Public Relations Officer, Dr Benedicta Ehanire, noted that th...
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has formally ended admissions into affiliated degree programmes run by Colleges of Education, marking a major shift in Nigeria’s teacher education system and effectively making the Nigeria Certificate in Education the sole entry route into the institutions fr...
