The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has clarified that the minimum admission age of 16 years for entry into tertiary institutions was not introduced by the Board but is a policy approved by the National Council on Education and contained in the National Policy on Education. The Board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, stated this on Thursday during the monthly dialogue of the Education Writers Association of Nigeria (EWAN), themed “2026 JAMB Admission Policy Meeting Review and JAMB Scorecard: A Conversation with the Registrar.” He represented the Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, a professor of Islamic Studies, who was unavoidably absent due to…
Author: Ibrahim Awotunde
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has explained why the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) results cannot remain valid beyond one admission cycle, saying the examination is designed to rank candidates for limited admission spaces rather than serve as a qualifying examination. The Board’s spokesman, Fabian Benjamin, stated this on Thursday during the monthly dialogue of the Education Writers Association of Nigeria (EWAN), themed “2026 JAMB Admission Policy Meeting Review and JAMB Scorecard: A Conversation with the Registrar.” He represented the Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, a professor of Islamic Studies, who was unavoidably absent due to an official assignment outside…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) says it will soon reopen its bio-data correction portal, allowing candidates to make changes to eligible personal details, while explaining the reasons behind complaints of multiple payment deductions and difficulties accessing some of its online services. The Board’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin, disclosed this during the monthly dialogue of the Education Writers Association of Nigeria (EWAN), themed “2026 JAMB Admission Policy Meeting Review and JAMB Scorecard: A Conversation with the Registrar.” He represented the Registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, a professor of Islamic Studies, who was unavoidably absent due to an official assignment outside the country.…
A thick, sour stench of rotting soda and chemical waste hangs over a secluded compound in Osogbo, the Osun State capital, warning of a problem before it is seen. Behind a rusted fence, a mountain of plastic bottles rises nearly two storeys high, gathered from gutters and dumps across five local government areas. At its base, stagnant water festers, alive with mosquitoes. This is “Alhaji’s collection point”, a well-intentioned but hazardous hub in Nigeria’s booming informal recycling chain, where efforts to clean up plastic waste are fuelling new environmental and public health risks. Grassroots collection, hidden harm Mr Musa, who…
Academics, researchers and students from African and European universities have called for sustainability to be embedded across computer science and software engineering curricula, warning that treating it as an optional subject leaves graduates ill-equipped to develop environmentally responsible digital technologies. The call was made at the third edition of the Green and Sustainable Software Engineering Summer School hosted by the University of Lagos (UNILAG) and organised by the African Engineering and Technology Network (AFRETEC). The five-day programme, which began on Monday, 22 June will end on Friday, 26 June. The summer school brought together students, lecturers and software engineers from…
Nigeria’s President, Bola Tinubu has appointed the immediate past Vice Chancellor of the University of Lagos (UNILAG), Oluwatoyin Ogundipe, a professor of Botany, as Chairman of the Governing Board of the National Universities Commission (NUC). The appointment, announced on Monday in a statement by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, follows the resignation of former chairman, Olufemi Aina, an emeritus professor of Business and Technical Education. Mr Aina was appointed chairman of the NUC Board in July 2025, and board members were inaugurated in November of the same year. The statement did not disclose the reason…
Tooth decay is a common condition among children in Nigeria, yet widely overlooked and misunderstood. Despite being preventable, many parents remain unaware of the everyday habits that put their children’s dental health at risk. Experts warn that sugary diets, inadequate brushing techniques, and a lack of fluoride are among the major causes of tooth decay in children. According to a 2022 Health Watch report on World Oral Health Day, approximately 6-23 per cent of Nigerians suffer from tooth decay, with 90 per cent cases left untreated. Additionally, 15-58 per cent of individuals aged 15 and above are affected by gum…
A Nigerian civic-tech innovator, Jare Tiamiyu, is set to showcase an artificial intelligence-powered governance chatbot and a grassroots accountability project at the African Youth Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Summit scheduled to take place in Accra, Ghana, from 23 to 25 June. Mr Tiamiyu, the Executive Director of the Insight Initiative for Community and Social Development (IICSD) and Team Lead of the Osun Open Local Government Project (OsunOpenLG), is part of the Nigerian Youth Futures Fund (NYFF) delegation attending the summit, where he will showcase how civic technology is reshaping citizen engagement and local governance in Nigeria. His presentation will spotlight…
Today marks 27 years of uninterrupted democratic governance in Nigeria. While many spend the day watching Democracy Day analyses and celebrations, some children and teachers remain in captivity, enduring the consequences of violent attacks on schools. In this report, DevReporting chronicles the wave of attacks on Nigerian schools and the abduction of innocent students and educators, tracing the crisis from the Chibok kidnapping to recent incidents across the country. Known as Jijinigbe in Yoruba, Ntọrọ mmadụ in Igbo and Garkuwa da Mutane in Hausa, kidnapping in Nigeria has evolved from isolated criminal incidents into a nationwide security crisis. While Nigeria…
A Lagos State University (LASU) 300-level Mass Communication student, Fajana Mary, has won top prize at a fiercely contested environmental debate after arguing that Lagos State should not wait for the federal intervention to tackle its pollution challenges. Mary emphasised that Lagos state possesses both the authority and capacity to tackle transboundary pollution. The debate formed part of the Lagos State Environmental Protection Agency’s (LASEPA) 2026 Inter-Tertiary Institutions Environmental Summit 2.0, which brought together six finalists from universities across the state to examine whether tackling transboundary pollution requires city-level action or national intervention. The motion before the students was: “Combating…