Universities across the country had earlier suspended academic activities until 14th March when the elections would’ve been concluded. However, the tertiary institutions have extended their resumption dates after the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) rescheduled the March 11 governorship elections to 18th March. The postponement of the resumption dates has raised concerns among stakeholders in the education sector, stating that schools are still trying to recover from last year’s eight-month strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

The National Examinations Council (NECO) has announced the release of the result of the November/December 2022 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE), which was made known on Thursday by NECO Registrar, Prof. Dantani Wushishi. According to him, a total of 59,124 candidates sat for the examinations consisting of 31,316 males and 27,808 females, representing 52.96 percent and 47.03 percent respectively.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has extended the deadline for the registration of the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) to Wednesday, February 22, 2023, over the scarcity of naira notes. This was made known in a statement issued on Wednesday by JAMB’s, Head of Public Affairs and Protocol, Dr. Fabian Benjamin adding that the exercise which was scheduled to end on February 15, 2023, had been extended by one week.

Ahead of the 2023 polls scheduled to hold on February 25 and March 11, the Federal Government (FG) has ordered the closure of all polytechnics across the country until after the elections. This was contained in a letter issued by the Federal Ministry of Education, which directed Idris Bugaje, the Executive Secretary of the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) to convey the instruction to rectors and provosts of all polytechnics nationwide.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) disclosed that more than 1.16 million candidates have registered for the 2023 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The examination body also insisted that it would not extend the February 14th registration deadline.

The National Universities Commission has directed universities and inter-university centres cut across the nation to temporarily shut down between 22nd February and 14th March 2023, to enable students to participate in the forthcoming general elections. The announcement was contained in a statement signed by the Deputy Executive Secretary (Administration), Chris Maiyaki, and addressed to vice-chancellors of all universities and directors of inter-university centres, the NUC noted that the directive was based on the directive of the Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu.