A child prodigy, Zainab Akintola has achieved outstanding academic success at a very young age. In a rare accomplishment, Zainab, a Nigerian girl of Yoruba extraction graduated from secondary school at just 12 years old and earned 30 professional certifications in Software Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (AI) by age 14. Initially, Zainab’s dream was to become a doctor. Growing up, her father, who lovingly called her “Doctor Zainab”, always encouraged…

No Roof, No Water, No Chairs’ – Rivers State Parents Speak Out on Rivers’ School Disaster Rivers State, one of the oil-rich states in Nigeria, ranks among the top four states receiving the highest federal allocations. Accordingly, Rivers State receives more than ₦ 426.84 billion federal allocation every month. Despite these huge resources, our reporter reveals that many public primary and secondary schools in the state remain in a deplorable…

Neither the US nor China is willing to assume the responsibility “The 1929 depression was so wide, so deep and so long because the international economic system was rendered unstable by British inability and United States unwillingness to assume responsibility for stabilising it.” Such was the economic historian Charles Kindleberger’s conclusion about why the Depression became an international catastrophe. The world economy, he argued, needs a hegemon: a leader…

The Kwara State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to training 28,000 female students across 70 public secondary schools located in the state’s three senatorial districts. This was revealed in a post shared on Thursday via the state government’s Facebook page. In partnership with the Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) project, the State Ministry of Education and Human Capital Development aims to achieve this initiative. The five-day workshop,…

To fulfil his lifelong dream of pursuing higher education, Adedapo Idowu, a 94-year-old man, has reportedly enrolled for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB). JAMB is responsible for conducting the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for aspiring students across Nigeria. In a featured JAMB bulletin, Mr. Idowu expressed his excitement about finally pursuing academic excellence after many years of waiting.…

The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has withheld the results of 2,577 candidates from the 2024 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for Private Candidates (Second Series), due to allegations of examination malpractice. The results were released on Sunday, February 16, with WAEC announcing that the examination had been conducted in two modes for the first time: paper-and-pen and a computer-based hybrid mode. In a statement issued by Moyosola Adesina,…

By Alade Adisa “We will impose some other penalty on them, that it will have been better for them to have stayed for their time, because they are going to waste their money.” – Prof. Ishaq The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), Prof. Ishaq Oloyede, has announced that there will be strict penalties for underage candidates participating in the ongoing 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME)…

President Bola Tinubu has approved the upgrade of Yaba College of Technology (YABATECH) to a university. The announcement was made on Friday by the Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, during a working visit to the college in Yaba, Lagos. After inspecting and commissioning several projects at the institution, Dr. Alausa shared the long-awaited news in an interactive session with the management, staff, and students. “The Rector mentioned earlier that…

President Bola Tinubu has directed the Federal Government to take over Nok University in Kachia, Kaduna State, and transform it into the newly renamed Federal University of Applied Sciences. This follows a ruling from the Federal High Court in Abuja, which ordered the final forfeiture of the privately owned institution to the government. Vice President Kashim Shettima made the announcement during the handover of the institution’s property and assets by…

The Rector of Kogi State Polytechnic, Lokoja, Usman Ogbo, has revealed that his administration successfully prevented 107 security threats during the first four years of his tenure. Ogbo made this statement during a press conference on Tuesday, marking the conclusion of his first term and the commencement of his second four-year term as the head of the institution. At the press briefing, Ogbo outlined several key achievements from his first…

After much pressure, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that candidates under the age of 16 can be considered for admission into tertiary institutions if they demonstrate exceptional academic brilliance by scoring 80 percent and above in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Following the public outcry that trailed the recent reversal of the mandatory 18-year admission age benchmark introduced by the immediate past Minister of Education,…

The Federal Government is scheduled to meet with the Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT) and the All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPPS) this Wednesday to discuss a proposal put forward by the Minister of Education, Mr. Tunji Alausa, aimed at extending basic education to 12 years. The proposal seeks to merge junior and senior secondary education into a single, continuous programme, which has sparked mixed reactions among…