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FG sets admission age at 16 for tertiary institutions

July 9, 2025July 9, 2025 Aminu Imam

The Federal Government has formally set 16 years as the minimum age for admission into Nigeria’s tertiary institutions. Minister of Education, Dr. Tunji Alausa, announced this yesterday, during the 2025 Policy Meeting of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), which was held in Abuja. Alausa, while declaring the meeting open, emphasised that the age benchmark is now official and non-negotiable. He warned that any admission carried out outside the Central Admissions Processing System would be considered illegal. The Minister further stated that Heads of institutions found culpable of admission…

Kano: Gov. Yusuf settles 84 stranded Cyprus students’ ₦2.24bn tuition fees

May 23, 2025May 23, 2025 Aminu Imam

Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has cleared outstanding tuition and accommodation fees totalling ₦2.24bn for 84 students stranded in Northern Cyprus after years of neglect under the previous administration. The affected students, who were sponsored by Near East University during the tenure of Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, were unable to complete their studies or collect their certificates after the scholarship program was discontinued by former Governor Abdullahi Umar Ganduje. Announcing the intervention yestetday, the Governor’s spokesperson, Sunusi Bature Dawakin-Tofa, said the payment was both a humanitarian and moral obligation.…

Students’ bodies, NAUS, NAPS, NANCES declare nationwide protest��

July 25, 2024July 25, 2024 Aminu Imam

The leadership of the National Association of University Students (NAUS), National Association of Polytechnic Students (NAPS), and the National Association Nigerian of College of Education Students (NANCES), have commenced mobilisation of their members for a nationwide protest. The trio of NAUS, NAPS and NANCES, declared the ‘National Day of Protest for Nigerian Students’ starting from Monday, July 29th, over the failure of the Federal Government to address the hardships being faced by Nigerian students amidst the current economic crisis. This was conveyed in a statement issued yesterday in Abuja, and…

Nasarawa: ?7 students feared dead during rice stampede

March 23, 2024March 23, 2024 Aminu Imam

Seven students of Nasarawa State University, Keffi, have been reportedly killed in a stampede while struggling for rice meant to be distributed as palliative by the State government. The students were said to have allegedly broken into the warehouse where the food items were kept to be distributed Friday morning, overpowered the security attached to the institution at about 5 a.m., and forcefully broke into the warehouse scrambling for palliative. It was gathered that some students billed to benefit from the Nasarawa State government palliative were issued I.D cards to…

Tinubu approves buses, lifts restrictions on students� loans to support higher education

August 1, 2023August 1, 2023 Aminu Imam

In a bid to alleviate the impact of fuel subsidy removal on students in higher institutions of learning, President Bola Tinubu has taken significant steps to ease their financial burdens. A State House press statement released by the Special Adviser to the President on Special Duties, Communications & Strategy, Dele Alake, outlined the measures aimed at supporting Nigerian students across the country. One of the major initiatives announced in the press statement is the provision of buses to students� bodies in all universities, Polytechnics, and colleges of education nationwide. This…

Student loan beneficiaries in other countries committing suicide over debts � ASUU

June 19, 2023June 19, 2023 Aminu Imam

The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) beneficiaries of student loan initiatives in other countries were committing suicide over their inability to repay debts. The ASUU National President, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke stated this while speaking on a television programme, said, �We, as a union also did research of countries all over the world, of people who have benefited from this loan, they were committing suicide�, adding that: �Recently, (President Joe) Biden is trying to pay back the bank loans of some who borrowed in the US�. He further said, �This…

“Insecurity: Angry students block major highway, protest abductions in Zamfara

June 18, 2023June 18, 2023 Aminu Imam

Motorists travelling along Gusau-Funtua Road were stranded on Saturday as students of Federal University Gusau, Zamfara State blocked the ever-busy highway in protest of incessant abductions of their schoolmates by bandits. Defying armed security personnel in the state capital, hundreds of students blocked the major road linking Sokoto, Zamfara, Katsina and Kaduna states. The protesting students started marching from Damba to Sabon-Gida, the community opposite the main campus of the university. They said five of their colleagues were kidnapped on Friday night in the Damba area, a community on the…

�We�re safer in Northern Cyprus than in Northern Nigeria� � Nigerian students reply FG

September 7, 2022September 7, 2022 Aminu Imam

A group of Nigerian students, under the aegis of the Nigerian Community in Northern Cyprus (NCNC), has said that their safety is more guaranteed in Northern Cyprus than in Northern Nigeria. The young Nigerians made their position known in reaction to a statement issued by the Chairperson, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, (NiDCOM), Abike Dabiri-Erewa, that Nigerians should avoid Northern Cyprus. Recall that some days ago Dabiri-Erewa stated this, explaining that Nigerians are becoming victims of assaults and killings in Northern Cyprus. The NCNC, however, through its President, Isaac Ifeoluwa Ajayi and…

Universities suspend 461,745 students� admission for 2021/2022 over strike

August 21, 2022August 21, 2022 Aminu Imam

The suspension of admissions in Nigerian universities has led to the failure of the universities to process a total of 461,745 admissions, a published investigative report has revealed. The Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board, (JAMB), in the statistics provided for our correspondent, however, blamed the strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, (ASUU), for the development. �Some institutions confirmed suspending the process because of the ASUU strike; the ASUU strike is a factor. Many institutions are yet to commence 2021 admissions despite repeated appeals�, JAMB noted, in the document.…

ASUU strike: Protesting students block Sagamu-Benin Expressway

May 16, 2022May 16, 2022 Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

Students in Ogun on Monday blocked the Sagamu-Benin Expressway in protest against the ongoing strike action by members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). The joint protest had in attendance students from Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye; Tai Solarin University of Education, Science and Technology (TASUED) Ijagun and Federal University of Agriculture (FUNAAB), Abeokuta. The students stormed the TASUED axis and blocked the expressway leaving many motorists stranded and travellers trapped. The students carried placards with inscriptions such as �#End ASUU strike now#�, �We say no to educational…