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David Adeleke, the Afro beats stardom popularly known as Davido, yesterday - Sunday, October 19, 2025, officially commissioned a female hostel in Clifford University, Owerrinta, Abia State, named after his late mother, Dr. Veronica Adeleke, during the 6th Convocation Ceremony of the school. The emotional event where he delivered an inspiring commencement speech to the graduating class while cutting the ribbon to unveil the Veronica Adeleke Female Hostel - a project he described as a tribute to his mother’s lifelong passion for education and philanthropy, was attended by dignitaries, students, and entertainment personalities. Speaking during the ceremony, Davido urged graduates to pursue purpose-driven lives and use their gifts to impact society positively. "When I looked into your faces, I saw the same fire that built me that hunger to be seen, to make something out of nothing, to turn pain into power. Talent might open the door, but purpose gives it meaning.” he said. The si...

©JAMB Press... At the 2025 Policy Meeting on Admissions held on 18th July, 2025, by the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB), amongst others, and chaired by the Honourable Minister of Education, Dr. Maruf Tunji Alausa, CON, critical resolutions were reached regarding the timelines for the 2025 admissions exercise. The meeting resolved that all public universities must complete and forward their recommendations of suitably-qualified candidates, who selected them as their first choice to the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on or before Tuesday, 30th September, 2025. Private universities, on the other hand, are required to submit their admission recommendations on or before Friday, 31st October, 2025, to allow sufficient time for other tiers of tertiary institutions to conduct their admissions. It was further agreed that the 2025 admission exercise would close as follows:  Public Universities: 31st October, 2025;  Private Universities: 30th ...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has in a closed-door meeting today - Friday, October 17, 2025, at the National Assembly Complex in Abuja, led by its National President, Prof. Christopher Piwuna, opened up on its major demands amid the ongoing two week warning strike which is now in its fifth day, to Nigerian concerned key Senate committees, including those on Tertiary Institutions and TETFund, and Labour. According to a report sourced partly from NTA News, ASUU during the meeting, emphasized that Nigerian universities require sustainable and increased funding to support scholarly research, upgrade decaying infrastructure to wit: hostels, lecture halls, labs et al., and improve remuneration for academic staff. Prof. Piwuna highlighted that Nigerian lecturers' salaries are among the lowest in Africa, making it difficult to attract or retain talent, and that unresolved issues from the 2009 ASUU-Federal Government Agreement including revitalization funds, continue t...

The Federal Government has announced that it's no longer compulsory for senior secondary school students in arts and humanities seeking admission into higher/tertiary institutions to have a credit in mathematics in their Senior School Certificate Examinations to wit WASSCE and NECO SSCE before they'll be considered for admission. The new policy termed: "Revised National Guidelines for Entry Requirements into Nigerian Tertiary Institutions"  was unveiled Today October 14, 2025 in a communiqué issued by the Federal Ministry of Education’s spokesperson, Folasade Boriowo, and applies to both universities, polytechnics, colleges of education, and Innovation Enterprise Institutions across the country. According to the communiqué, the reform became necessary after years of limited access, which left many qualified candidates unable to secure admission despite meeting the required standards. “Every year, over two million candidates sit for the Unified Tertiary Mat...

The University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) has lifted the suspension of Students’ Union Government (SUG) activities on its campus, effective immediately, as announced by Registrar Dr. Mrs. C.N. Nnebedum. The decision follows a turbulent period that began with the suspension of SUG executives and subsequent campus unrest. Recall that on September 15, 2025, the SUG House of Representatives suspended Comr. Ozoagu Chinedu Godswill alongside other executives over allegations of cultism, threats to life, gross misconduct, and financial mismanagement. At the heart of the financial scandal was the alleged diversion of ₦124 million approved by the former Acting Vice-Chancellor (who has since been removed by the Federal Government) for SUG projects. According to the House's statement, the funds were withdrawn but shared among external actors and SUG officials, with no projects executed. An additional ₦100 million withdrawn from the SUG account over the past year remained unaccounted fo...

It's no longer news that several tertiary institutions across Nigeria have commenced their admission processes for 2025/26 academic session through the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) Central Admission Processing System (CAPS) with candidates actively checking their admission statuses. As earlier said via some of my UTME Forums, the JAMB CAPS portal is designed to streamline the admission process, allowing candidates to monitor their admission progress and make informed decisions. There has however been growing confusion surrounding terms such as “Not Admitted,” “Admission in Progress,” or  “Transfer Approval” displayed on the CAPS portal and misinterpreting any of these statuses can lead to missed opportunities or incorrect decisions. For instance, failing to accept a transfer approval promptly could jeopardize a candidate’s chances of securing admission. To address these concerns, I'll be helping with a clear and comprehensive explanation o...

The Students' Union Government (SUG) President, Comr. Elijah Ekanem of Akwa Ibom State University (AKSU) has been suspended from the union activities and from being a student of the institution. The action, detailed in an official letter today - October 2, 2025, cites gross misconduct including the forceful seizure of vehicle keys from a driver attached to his office and disseminating false information against the institution's constituted authorities. The suspension letter, signed by Dr. Dominic Ekpo, Dean of Students' Affairs, and made available to EruditeNewsBlog by Elijah Ubong the Union's Director of Information who was earlier suspended by said SUG President, further directs Ekanem to appear before the university's Students' Disciplinary Committee for further investigation. It references the AKSU Students' Handbook, which classifies such actions as major infractions warranting severe penalties. "This is as a result of your gross miscon...

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has issued a 14-day ultimatum to the Federal Government of Nigeria urging swift action to resolve the lingering issues in our public universities. The deadline for said ultimatum, set for October 12, 2025, comes with a warning of a two weeks warning strike, potentially escalating into a total indefinite shutdown if demands are unmet, this of course will amount to a significant disruption to Nigeria’s education sector. In a press release signed by ASUU President, Prof. Christopher Piwuna today, September 29, 2025, following the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting at the University of Abuja, the union decried FG's persistent refusal to address its concerns which has been before them for over 16 years of raising the said issues, with intensified efforts over the past three months through media and public platforms. According to the press release, the union's key demands include the renegotiation of the 2009 ASUU-FGN ...

This is to notify all prospective students of University of Nigeria (UNN) to ahead of Post-UTME/DE screening registration which will officially close on Monday, 22nd September by 11:59 PM, note that the university has reportedly adopted an automated screening system that will combine both JAMB-UTME scores and O’level results. Suffice it to say that there will be no manual grading for the screening process as every candidates admission chances will depend strictly on how well he/she performed in JAMB (UTME) and O’level results. The screening method is the proposed calculation method and the ratio to be used is 90:10 ratio when calculating scores. ie: 90% will come from UTME score, while 10% will come from O’level result. This means that candidates' UTME performance is very important, but their O’level results also play a good role. Mathematically, this is expressed as: [0.9 × JAMB Score] + [0.1 × Screening Score] Screening Score is gotten using the O'level Grading S...

The Management of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) has banned all social activities on the campus that will exceed 6pm. According to them, every social event within the institution environment must be held strictly during the daytime and under the supervision of the University Security Unit. The directive which was contained in a communiqué signed by Mr. Inya Egwu, the Acting Public Relations Officer of the university, came following the unfortunate incident that occurred within the institution on Friday night - September 12, 2025, involving a murdered businessman identified as Chiebonam Nweze (Power_autos) from Lejja Nsukka and the alleged murderer - Onyeka popularly known as "Daddy_Yo", a non-student of the university from Umudiaka Nsukka. In a report sourced from Sen Chijinkem Ugwuanyi's Facebook account by EruditeNewsBlog, the tragic incident happened during a Faculty of Arts bonfire event held at the Department of Archaeology, opposite UBA Hall of ...

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has disclosed that the Nigerian education sector is on the verge of collapsing. This was stated by Mr. Jake Epelle, Chairman of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board’s (JAMB) Special Committee on Examination Infractions today - Wednesday September 10, 2025, during an interview on Channels Television, as he raised alarm over the growing prevalence of examination fraud, warning that without urgent reforms, the credibility of Nigeria’s education system risks total collapse. This is coming following the startling revelations from JAMB’s investigations into the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board uncovered 4,251 cases of “finger blending,” a sophisticated form of examination malpractice involving the alteration or combination of fingerprint data to bypass biometric verification systems, allowing unqualified candidates to take exams in place of registered ones. Additionally, 190 instances of A...

Recent report on ASUU strike gathered that the union (Academic Staff Union of Universities) rejected Berekete Family radio’s intervention to end the ongoing strike. The incident reportedly occurred this morning, June 11, 2022, as the host of the radio programme, Ahmad Isah, popularly known as Ordinary president, invited ASUU president, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke, and his team, to explain to Nigerians the perennial problems and state why the union is still on strike. Recall that ordinary president set up a special intervention bank account domiciled in TAJ Bank to raise funds for the union, with a view to ending the strike. ♦️ Apparently to convince ASUU to buy into the idea of the intervention, Isah publicly showed the N50 million cash donated by Governor Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom State. ♦️ Immediately the money was displayed, ASUU President frowned at the development, saying they should not be associated with such. ♦️At that point, Isah threatened to discontinue the intervent...

The national president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, has said the warning strike embarked upon by the union on February 14, would soon be truncated. The ASUU national president stated this yesterday while speaking on the Human Rights Radio, producers of the popular national radio/TV programme, Brekete Family Show. He blamed the minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, for politicising the strike which has failed to yield positive results. “When this thing started, the minister of labour took over the control of this process and politicised it, looking for press conferences but I can assure you on this issue now, presently the minister of education is handling it and we are making some good progress." “I hope it continues this way and within a short time, God helping, and if there are no third parties, we believe that this thing will be resolved very soon," he said. Meanwhile, Osodeke has pleaded with Nigerian...

According to ASUU and SSANU national presidents, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke and Mr Mohammed Ibrahim respectively, the Briggs committee has been meeting with the various unions since May 2022 to renegotiate their agreements. ASUU national presidents, Prof. Emmanuel Osodeke in a recent report disclosed that ‘‘There is progress both on FG and the Briggs committee meeting but it depends on the government side. We had a fairly good meeting we are still trying to resolve the issues. Until we get the final report from the government. We are trying to work in the same direction. They are also testing UTAS.’’ Reports gathered that the committee would submit its report to the FG this week or they could be given an extension. Meanwhile FG and varsity unions’ renegotiation committee sitting will allegedly end today (if otherwise, this article will be updated). On the live Interview between ASUU National President, Osadeke, and Brekete family station this morning Around 7:30am, the VC Net...

A total of 3,135 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination and Direct Entry examinations candidates who scored 300 and above in 2018, 2019 and 2020 did not gain admission into tertiary institutions. According to report, the figure is based on the admission statistics prepared by the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board for the three years. The statistics for 2018, 2019 and 2020 were made available on the board’s website. Meanwhile, the board is still working on the 2021 statistics following the conclusion of the 2021 admissions. Reports gathered that while tertiary institutions are at liberty to determine their respective cut-off marks for admission, there is a widely held belief that candidates who score higher marks have advantages over those with poor UTME scores. In 2018, JAMB noted that though a total of 4,683 candidates scored 300 and above, only 3,683 gained admission while 1,000 candidates were unable to gain admission. In 2019, a total of 2,967 candidates scored 3...

President Muhammadu Buhari has directed the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA to subject the Integrated Payroll Personnel Information System, IPPIS and the two other proposed payment solutions proposed by University workers to integrity test. This is as the Federal Government is making efforts towards ensuring that the Consiquential Adjustment/ minimum wage arrears are paid to the striking university workers this week in order to persuade them call off the ongoing strike. In another report , the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, University of Calabar branch has said the body is prepared to remain on strike till 2023 if necessary. Chairman of ASUU in the University of Calabar, UNICAL, Dr Edor J. Edor, said the body is prepared to remain on strike and hungry until President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government offers something concrete. Edor disclosed this while reacting to Buhari’s appeal that ASUU should call-off the lingering industrial...

JAMB has released results of the just concluded 2022 UTME Examination. The examination body, made this known in a statement signed by its Head, Public Affairs and Protocol, Fabian Benjamin, on Saturday in Abuja. Part of the statement read: “To check the 2022 UTME result, all a candidate needs to do is to simply send UTMERESULT to 55019 using the same phone number that he/she had used for registration and the result would be returned as a text message. This is the only process of checking the 2022 UTME results for now as the Board has not uploaded it on its website for obvious reasons." “In addition, candidates are forewarned that they would, as usual, receive all kinds of messages from desperate fraudsters on how to check their results different from the aforementioned one. Hence, the Board urges all candidates to ignore all such messages on how to check their 2022 UTME results as they are all products of deceit aimed at misleading them. “The Board, in line with its de...

Students of the Abubakar Tafawa Balewa University (ATBU) and Bauchi State University, Gadau (BASUG) have commenced the mobilization of their female colleagues ahead of their plan to stage a half-naked street protest against the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). Some of the students, who spoke to Newsmen on condition of anonymity, asked the Federal Government to resolve its problems with the Union to enable them to return to school. One of them said: “So far we’ve contacted more than 500 female students and they have agreed to participate in the protest and we’re expecting more before the final day. They slammed the Federal Government and ASUU for neglecting their responsibilities of providing a conducive and uninterrupted learning environment for the students." “As law-abiding students, we’ve been patient enough, our career future is in danger because of some unpatriotic citizens who only care and are concerned by their children and families,” ...

The Federal Government has reportedly expressed optimism that the decisions reached in its three-part meeting with university-based unions would yield fruits next week. The Head, Press and Public Relations in the Ministry of Labour and Employment, Mr Olajide Oshundun, in a statement on Friday, said some agreements had been reached between the government and the unions. The Academic Staff Union of Universities, the Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, the Non-Academic Staff Union, and the Association of Academic Technologists are currently on strike. The unions embarked on strike actions while demanding improved welfare packages, better working conditions and implementation of various labour agreements signed with the Federal Government between 2009 and 2015. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Senator Chris Ngige said, “We had a cordial and fruitful discussion; we looked at the issues dispassionately and reached some agreements, to the satisfaction of every...

Academic staff Union of Universities (ASUU) and other University unions will continue their ongoing strike as the tripartite meeting with the Federal Government ended in deadlock. Although ASUU President refused to speak to journalists on the details of the meeting, one of the union members said that there was nothing new except that the government team wanted them to call off the strike for a period of time which they rejected. Adding that the union won't call off the strike action until it's demands are met. According to him, “There was nothing on ground for us to consider. We are not stopping the strike until something concrete is done." But the Minister of Labour and Employment Senator Chris Ngige who spoke to journalists after the meeting claimed the negotiations were fruitful. His words:  “We have reached some agreements and we hope that by next week, those agreements will be maturing and the different unions will have something to tell their members, so ...