THE Head, National Office, West African Examinations Council (WAEC), Dr. Amos Dangut, has announced the release of reviewed results for the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). Dangut explained at a media conference on Friday that during an internal post-examination review, WAEC discovered that a wrong serialised code file was used in printing […]
THE West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced the temporary withdrawal of the 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) results for school candidates due to the discovery of technical issues in the result release process. The Council made this known in a statement issued by the Acting Head of Public Affairs, Moyosola Adesina, […]
STRONG reactions against the mass failure of candidates in this year’s Senior Secondary School Certificate Examinations, SSCE, continued yesterday, with parents and some groups calling for the cancellation of some of the papers, especially English Language. This is even as the National Association of Proprietors of Private Schools, NAPPS, in criticising the conduct of the […]
HOSTELS at Rivers State University (RSU) have become sources of fear and distress, with a series of unsettling incidents plaguing Nkpolu-Oroworukwo, in Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Students of the affected hostels, A and C, lamented that they were facing a series of robberies and attacks. In Hostel A, a recurring problem of theft has reached […]
THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Wednesday listed conditions for screening of exceptional Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates who are still under the age of 16 years, for the 2025/2026 admissions. The board said that to qualify for consideration, under-16 candidates must have a minimum UTME score of 320 out of 400 […]
THE West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has temporarily shut down its result check portal. The shutdown of the result checker portal was due to technical issues that will be resolved within the next 24 hours. The Head of Public Affairs unit of WAEC Nigeria, Mrs. Moyosola Adesina, revealed this in a statement on Wednesday evening. […]
THE West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has withheld the entire results of the May/June 2025 West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) for students of Kings College, Lagos, due to alleged examination malpractice. According to Daily Sun, between Monday and Tuesday 4 and 5 August, several students and parents who checked the results on WAEC’s […]
By MUHAMMAD NASIR BASHIR THE Federal University Dutse (FUD) Alumni Association, has congratulated the Vice-Chancellor of the university, Prof. Abdulkarim Sabo over the Nigerian Universities Commission’s (NUC) approval of 26 new academic programmes for the institution. This is contained in a statement by Mr. Bashir Kassim, the President of the association, and made available to […]
By IJEOMA OLORUNFEMI THE Readland Global has called for more girls’ participation in hands on technology skills to drive innovation and boost their careers in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). Dr. Temiloluwa Adeshina, Co-Founder of Readland Global, made the call on Tuesday in an interview. Readland Global is a leadership and learning resource centre. […]
THE Akwa Ibom State Government has faulted reports on the prevalence of out-of-school children and poor performance of the state in the 2025 West African Examinations Council (WAEC) results. The State Commissioner for Education, Mrs. Idongesit Etiebet, in a statement issued in Uyo, yesterday, described the reports as misleading, mischievous and politically motivated. Reports had […]