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.

Candidates of the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations (UTME) may now have some respite as the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board has released the results of 1,792,719 candidates out of the 1,886,508 who sat for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculations Examinations in April.