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Oba Graduate Trainee Programme (OGTP), an initiative founded by Umar Oba Adelodun has trained and given job placements to 21 graduates in reputable organisations. The trainees were presented both certificates and placement letters in Ilorin, Kwara State capital on Wednesday. The founder of the initiative, Mr. Umar Oba Adelodun, said the graduate trainees went through […]
Vice-Chancellor, Wesley University Ondo, Rt. Rev Prof. Samuel Sunday Obeka, has appealed to faith-based universities to consider slashing their fees considering the present economic situation in Nigeria. He also debunked allegations that the university owed their part-time lecturers salaries and refuted the allegations as not only mischievous but also spurious. The institute is the first […]
The National Examination Council has released the 2023 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) internal results. In a press briefing in Minnaon Tuesday, NECO’s Registrar, Prof. Dantani Wushishi, said the result summary shows that 61.6 percent scored five credits, including English and Mathematics. The number of candidates who registered for the exam was 1,205,888, and the […]
The Advisory Board for The Nigeria Prize for Literature today announced the longlist of 11 drawn from 143 plays in the running for the 2023 edition of the prize. The genre in focus is Drama. The literature prize is sponsored by Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) with a cash award of $100,000. The 11 plays on the longlist, in alphabetical order by the title of the plays, are: •Dance of The Sacred Feet by Ade Adeniji •Gidan Juju by Victor S. Dugga •Grit by […]
Mmesoma Ejikeme, the candidate at the heart of a Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results forgery debacle, has written to the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) asking for leniency. The 19-year-old on Wednesday read a letter of apology before the House of Representatives ad hoc committee on the manipulation in Abuja. Mmesoma had claimed […]
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the results of the 2023 National Common Entrance Examination (NCEE) for admission into the 110 Federal Government Colleges (Unity Schools) across Nigeria. Of the 69,829 pupils who sat for the examination, 76 pupils had the highest score of 203. The examination was written on June 3, 2023 in […]
Cambridge Assessment International Education in partnership with the British Council has celebrated 109 top performing students from 45 schools across Nigeria recently. The students received Outstanding Cambridge Learner Awards following their exceptional performance in the June and November 2022 Cambridge examination series. The prestigious awards covered various subjects taken in Cambridge IGCSEs, Cambridge O Levels […]
Anambra State government has distanced itself from claims by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), that the result of Miss Mmesoma Ejikeme, a student of Anglican Girls Secondary School (AGSS), Nnewi, is fake. The Commissioner for Information, Mr Paul Nwosu, in a press release on Wednesday said investigation was still ongoing on what transpired […]
A 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidate from Anambra State, Ejikeme Mmesoma says she was falsely accused of forging her result by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). In a video released by the young girl which has gone viral, Mmesoma narrated how she obtained the result from JAMB portal and was surprised […]
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said it will prosecute one Miss Ejikeme Joy Mmesoma for parading a fake UTME result from which she was awarded a N3m scholarship. The board claimed she scored 249 in the examination as against the 362 she paraded. In a statement on Sunday by its Head, Public […]