The National Centre for Women Development (NCWD) has inducted the wife of late Chief MKO Abiola, Alhaja Kudirat Abiola, Dr Stella Adadevoh, and wife of Nigerian President, Aisha Buhari, into the Nigerian Women Hall of Fame. The Director-General of the Centre, Mrs Mary Ekpere-Eta, spoke in Abuja during the induction ceremony of 22 female icons into the Nigerian Women Hall of Fame.

Following the 19th Policy Meeting of the Joint Admission and Matriculations Board (JAMB), the agency has pegged the score of 160 as the cutoff mark for admissions to tertiary institutions in 2019. The approved score is the national minimum benchmark for admission into public universities.

The Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps, Brig Gen Shuaibu Ibrahim, on Monday warned tertiary institutions in the country against enrolling unqualified graduates in the scheme.

The leadership of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Sunday, called on Nigerians to pressurize the Federal Government to honor their agreement to forestall fresh indefinite strike.

Contrary to reports from the office of the Minister of Education that the sum of N25 billion has been approved by the Federal Government for university lecturers as Earned Academic Allowance (EAA), the President of Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof. Biodun Ogunyemi has said no such funds had been released.

In what appears to be good news to members of the National Youth Service Corp (NYSC), the Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, has disclosed that Corp members will now receive the new minimum wage as their monthly allowance.