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Mass Failure: JAMB Announces Date For Fresh UTME Exams

VAM News May 15, 2025

News Update THE Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced plans to reschedule the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) for candidates affected by technical issues in 157 centres. The centres, located in...

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FULL TEXT: JAMB admits to error in 2025 UTME results

VAM News May 15, 2025

JAMB undertook an early review of the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) that uncovered how a major technical error compromised 379,997 results across 157 exam centres. The board’s registrar, Ishaq Oloyede, delivered a...

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Education

Prof. Chris Piwuna: ASUU Gets New President

VAM News May 12, 2025

News Update THE Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has elected Prof. Chris Piwuna, a consultant psychiatrist at the University of Jos Teaching Hospital, as its new president. Piwuna, who also serves as the...

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Education

UTME Mass failure shows anti-malpractice measures active – Minister

VAM News May 7, 2025

THE Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, has stated that the high failure rate recorded in the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, is evidence that the government’s anti-malpractice measures are effective. Dr Alausa...

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Education

Step-by-step guide on checking UTME results

VAM News May 5, 2025

THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board has released the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination results. In this year’s UTME, over 1.5 million out of the 1,955,069 candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary...

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Only 1.16% of underage UTME candidates show exceptional ability — JAMB reports

Akanji Philip May 5, 2025

Out of the 40,247 underage candidates who sat for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), only 467 — which is 1.16 per cent —scored high enough to be classified under the exceptional ability...

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Education

NANS: A Warning To Alhaji Atiku Abubakar And Omoyele Sowore

VAM News May 3, 2025

A WARNING TO ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR AND OMOYELE SOWORE The leadership of the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) under the Comrade Olushola Oladoja administration wishes to categorically condemn the ongoing coordinated attack aimed...

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Education National

NANS President Oladoja Addresses False Allegations by Atiku Isah Against NANS and Seyi Tinubu [VIDEO & FULL TEXT]

VAM News May 2, 2025

News Update Press Briefing by Comrade Olusola Oladoja, National President of NANS, Addressing False Allegations by Atiku Isah Against NANS and Seyi Tinubu Abuja, 2nd of May , 2025 Gentlemen of the Press, We...

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Education

N71.2bn Missing From N100bn Student Loan Fund Uncovered

VAM News May 1, 2025

News Update THE Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission (ICPC) has uncovered a major financial discrepancy in the disbursement of student loan funds. Out of the N100 billion reportedly released by the...

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Education

FG directs WAEC, NECO to adopt CBT for exams 2026

Akanji Philip April 28, 2025

The Federal Government has directed the West African Examinations Council and the National Examinations Council to adopt full Computer-Based Testing for all their examinations by 2026. The Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, disclosed...