Post UTME examination is unconstitutional and illegal says Jamb registral

The registrar for JAMB Prof. Dibu Ojerinde in an interview on Channels TV declares the conduct of Post-Utme examination by Tartary institution in Nigeria as "Unconstitutional" and "Illegal"

He as well mentioned in his statement that JAMB was not responsible for scrapping of post-utme but was canceled by the Minister of Education after due consultation.

he also laid high emphases on the difference between screening and test. He explain that the   initial agreement is for institutions to conduct screening such as checking authentication of result, certificate, jamb scores, subject combination and other prerequisite to ensure they qualify for admission into the school and not making them to undergo any test inform of examination.

Backing his argument up, Prof Ojerinde made references to some  section of the constitution and also to the statement of the then president Olusegun Obansanjo  who said then 'I did not ask you to conduct another exam, all I say is screen the candidates before they come in’

 some of the section in the constitution he made mention was,

“Section 5, sub-section 1A of the constitution, the general control for the conduct of matriculation examination for admission into all the universities, polytechnics and Colleges of Education or whatever name called is vested in JAMB.

“Section 5, sub-section 2 also states; the board shall be responsible for determining matriculation requirements and conducting examination leading to undergraduate admission and also for admission into National Dipoma and National Certificate in Education, NCE.”

Federal College of Education Gombe Shut down

                                   

 Pandemonium rocks Gombe college of  Education (Technical)  as students protest over lack of water, poor electricity supply and bad Internet facilities on Friday 10th June 2016.

the student that protest to kick against the attitude of the school provost Dr. Gimba Abbas and while reacting according to Nijaloaded, the provost said around 5:30am, the acting provost called him that the students were on rampaged and had become destructive.

He also mentioned that the protest train which started a night before moved from the school premises to the  registrar house and later to the staff quarters causing a lot of damages to infrastructures and properties of the school.

In disagreement with the students action, the school as therefore been close down till further notice.

University of Ibadan to resume this month

The Management of the University of Ibadan (UI) has announced that full academic activities should resume on Wednesday, June 15th 2016  while lectures will commence Monday 20th June 2016.

According to Naijaloaded, The announcement came after the closure of series of meetings held by the management with student bodies and stakeholders on Thursday.

the institution was shout down indefinitely on 26th of April 2016 and ordered the students to vacate the campus with immediate effect.

the closure of the institution came after students staged a protest over management victimization of a 500level Engineering student, who took part in a recent protest by the students over poor power and water supply within the school campus.

Governor Ambode declares N113.3 Billion for education in Lagos State

According to Vanguard, The Lagos State government has disclosed that its N113.3bn education budget (representing 27.11% of the state’s budget) is about one-third of the N369bn budgeted by the Federal Government for the entire country; just as it assured of its commitment to the implementation of the one meal a day programme. 

This wàs revealed by Governor Akinwunmi Ambode at the grand finale of activities to mark this year’s Children’s Day celebration and to commemorate his one year in office, Governor Akinwunmi Ambode. Speaking on the theme “Stop Violence Against Children”, Ambode,who spoke through his deputy, Dr. Idiat Adebule, promised that anyone who perpetrate violence against children in any form be it physical, sexual, psychological, deliberate neglect, kidnap and child trafficking would be dealt with according to the according to the dictates of the law.

 Governor Ambode commended the improvement in the education sector as exemplified by the results of the various co-curricular activities locally and internationally, noting that it has been a source of joy to the State Government. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Education, Mr. Adesina Odeyemi, reminded students that education remains the veritable means of attaining greatness as education helps to prepare individuals for life challenges, therefore there was the need for them to strife hard to make parents and entire community happy through their performances. 

Speaking on the meal a day program, Adebule said efforts are on-going to perfect the program aimed at increasing the nutrition content of school children meals to keep them healthy and encourage more pupils and students to stay in school. According to her, “the State Government has made provision for it in the budget to show her commitment,  but is awaiting the intervention of the Federal Government since it was designed to be funded by the Federal and State Government on 60:40 ratio counterpart funding. 

She added that, in fulfilling her promise to lessen the burden of parents in the academic pursuit of their children and wards, the government has paid N561,346,100 to WAEC for examination and administrative fees of 44,005  SS 2 students who sat for the last Mar/May 2016 WASSCE in the state. 

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/lagos-education-budget-13-fg/ 

POST UTME Stoped By Federal Government

As i informed you that Jamb will fix general cut-off mark today 2/6/2016 click to read JAMB TO FIX GENERAL CUT-OFF MARKS BY JUNE 2.

the meeting took place as planned today and the result of the meeting lead to scarping of POST UTME by the federal government  and pegging of CUT-OFF MARKS to 180.

According to http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/fg-scraps-post-utme/

The Federal Government has scrapped post-Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME, as a pre-condition to gaining admission into universities in the country. 

The government and stakeholders in education sector also pegged 180 as benchmark for 2016 admission into universities, polytechnics and colleges of education to improve quality of education in Nigeria. ‎These decisions were reached at the 2016 Combined Policy Meeting on Admissions to Universities, Polytechnics and other higher institutions in Nigeria. 

The Minister of Education ,  Malam Adamu Adamu, while declaring open ‎the meeting, said since the federal government and stakeholders had confidence in the examinations conducted by the Joint Admissions and Matriulation Board, JAMB, there was no need for other examinations to be conducted by universities after JAMB exams. He said: “As far as I am concerned, the nation has confidence in what JAMB is doing, the universities should not be holding another examinations and if the universities have any complain against JAMB, let them bring it and then we address it. ”But if JAMB is qualified enough to conduct tests and they have conducted test, then there will be no need to conduct another test for students to gain admission.

Read more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2016/06/fg-scraps-post-utme/

tuition fee protest turn bloody in Auchi Polytechnic

The Protesting students of the Federal Polytechnic (Auchi Poly) in Edo State, Today shut down the campus.

Naijaloaded.com.ng gathered that some students of the School of Evening Studies, (SES) who are currently writing their examination were stopped due to unpaid tuition fees while some students forcefully gained entrance and went ahead to disrupt the examination which resulted in an uproar.

As at the time of filing this report, some protesting students have been reportedly shot dead.

From a student:

AUCHI POLY, Here we come, God what type of country is this, am only having 5 papers to round up with my exams and all this are happening in my school, students are rioting because they are not allowed to write exams in the sense that they’ve not paid school fees. As at now they’ve killed many of our students, burning some of our lectures cars and some of the exams hall. We don’t even know if the exams are still going to be completed or strike is going to fall in. God have mercy upon us your children. FEDERAL POLYTECHNIC, AUCHI.

Photos from the scene: http://www.naijaloaded.com.ng/2016/06/02/students-protest-turns-deadly-photos/

FG Sacks over 100 University Staff

According to daily post, not fewer than 106 workers of University Staff Schools in the country have been allegedly sacked by the Federal Government. It’s also reported that 76 members from the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ife, Osun State were also said to be on the waiting list for disengagement.

The information was disclosed on Wednesday at the SSANU’s ongoing NEC meeting at the Micheal Imoudu National Institute for a labor studies, MINILS, Ilorin, Kwara State.