The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has delisted 25 centres scheduled to hold the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME). The board said the decision to delist the centres was due to glitches recorded at the affected centres during the 2021 UTME exercise which kicked off on Saturday.

Lecturers under the aegis of The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) have announced the suspension of its nationwide strike. This was disclosed on Wednesday in a statement by the union’s National Secretary, Abdullahi Yalwa titled, “Suspension of the national strike of the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics.”

The governing board of the National Examinations Council (NECO) has approved the appointment of Mr. Ebikibina John Ogborodi as the Acting Registrar/Chief Executive of NECO. Mr. Ogborodi's appointment is as a result of his predecessor's death, Professor Godswill Obioma on Tuesday 1st June 2021 after battling a brief illness.

The University of Lagos (UNILAG) has dismissed Boniface Igbeneghu and Samuel Omoniyi Oladipo, two lecturers caught soliciting sex from students in exchange for grades in a 2019 investigation by the BBC. The institution had earlier suspended Igbeneghu, who doubles as a pastor, and Oladipo following the investigation. It thereafter set up a panel to investigate the allegations brought against them. A statement issued on Wednesday by the university’s communication unit, corporate affairs division at the office of the vice-chancellor, said the dismissals were effective from Monday, May 31. According to the statement, the move is in line with section 18 of the University of Lagos Act 1967. It also said the dismissal followed the BBC report and findings of its senate committee constituted to probe the matter.

The immediate past vice president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Emmanuel Osodeke, has taken over the mantle of leadership from Mr. Biodun Ogunyemi as the Union's new President.

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brigadier General Shuaibu Has jettisoned the move by the House of Representatives to scrap the NYSC scheme, saying that its relevance in integration and national cohesion must not be underestimated. The DG who spoke on Wednesday in his office in Abuja stated that the NYSC has been a useful tool for the socio-economic development of the country through the deployment of corps members to states outside their base where they contribute in many ways to the lives of residents of their host communities.