After long back and forth over the student loan between the executive and the legislature, President Bola Tinubu has finally signed the Bill into law on yesterday Wednesday 3rd April, 2023 in Abuja. Accordingly, the students’ loan is part of the president Tinubu campaign promise for the Nigerian student and it is part of the implementation to have Access to Higher Education Act, 2023. The Act, popularly known as the Students Loan Bill seeks to provide loans for indigent Nigerian students to pay fees in Nigerian tertiary institutions.

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) revealed that it discovered no fewer than 1,665 fake A-Level results during the 2023 Direct Entry (DE) registration exercise. This was made known by the JAMB Registrar, Prof. Ishaq Oloyede when he received the leadership of the National Association of Nigeria Colleges of Education Students (NANCES) in his office on Tuesday, where he stated that the A-Level results verification regime was plagued by corruption associated with the system.

The National Association of Nigerian Students in Benin Republic has today Friday assured his colleagues who are in possession of a controversial Cotonou Republic degree from the degree mills institutions to be rest assured that their certificate are still valid. He assured Nigerian students in the West African country of a speedy completion of the investigative process into the activities of degree mills which has led to the suspension of degree certificates from Benin Republic, Togo and some other countries. 

The Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, SSANU and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities and Allied Institutions, NASU will commence a nationwide industrial action today in protest of their withheld four months’ salary by the federal government. The National President of SSANU, Muhammed Ibrahim, revealed these yesterday that the two unions were set for their nationwide strike date. However, the Minister for Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman, claimed he was not unaware of SSANU/NASU’s planned strike. 

President Bola Tinubu has approved the conversion of the Federal College of Dental Technology and Therapy, Enugu, to a full-fledged University of Allied Health Sciences. Special adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, said the move was part of his dedicated efforts to build robust human resources for the health and social welfare sectors. The statement clarified that the Federal College of Dental Technology and Therapy in Enugu will now be known as the Federal University of Allied Health Sciences, Enugu, and will be domiciled under the Federal Ministry of Health and Social Welfare.

The Executive Secretary of the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, Sonny Echono has disclosed that the launch of the student loan scheme contrary to the news making round has only been postponed for a couple of weeks and not indefinitely. Echono disclosed this at the TETFUND headquarters in Abuja when the governor of Kwara state paid him a courtesy visit. He said the delay in the process is only to fine tune it such that the authorities make sure that there are no stone left unturn in the proper implementation of the scheme and to ensure that the scheme is up to standard.