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POST UTME EXAMINATIONS SCRAPPED IN NIGERIAN UNIVERSITIES.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, today announced the scrapping of post UTME examinations organized by various Universities for prospective students who partake in JAMB examinations.
Speaking at the opening of the 2016 Combined Policy Meeting on Admissions to Universities, Polytechnics and other higher institutions in Nigeria, Adamu said the Federal government had confidence in the examination conducted by the Joint Admissions and...

A lecturer at the Delta State University (DELSU), Abraka, reportedly put his hands into the underwear of a female final year student of the institution who was cheating in an examination at the weekend.
Student Pulse gathered from a Leadership report that the incident happened last Friday when students of the institution’s department of Library and Information Science were writing an examination for a course called ‘Entrepreneurship and Information...

The National Universities Commission recently released a list of illegal degree awarding institutions operating in Nigeria.
This list was released to the public in NUC’s August 24 weekly bulletin.
The NUC Executive secretary, Julius Okojie, warned that Certificates obtained from these universities and colleges will not be recognized for the purpose of NYSC, employment and further studies.”...

Two students have killed their 14-year-old classmate with iron rods in New Delhi, India, because he reported them to a teacher for misbehaving.
Shubham, a class 9 student was beaten to death by his classmates on Friday at a petrol pump in southwest Delhi....