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  The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will meet today with heads of tertiary institutions, to decide the fate of over 1.4 million candidates who wrote the 2021 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). Vice chancellors, provosts and rectors from public and private universities, polytechnics and colleges of education are also expected to attend the virtual admission policy meeting. Also expected are the Executive Secretaries of National Universities Commission (NUC), National Board for Technical Education (NBTE), National Examinations Council (NECO), Director General, National Youths Corps Members (NYSC), National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), heads of West African Examinations Council (WAEC), and other relevant agencies involved in admissions.  Catholic Prayers Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, will declare the policy meeting open. Adamu will further release the ministerial guidelines for the 2021 admissions exercise. The cut off...

  The Federal Government, on Monday, explained why it had not paid the University Revitalisation Fund and met other demands of the Academic Staff Union of Universities. The Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba, who stated this in an interview with The PUNCH, said the government was working hard to ensure the release of the revitalisation fund by the Central Bank of Nigeria. But ASUU, in its reaction, dismissed the minister’s explanation, saying the government was being dishonest in its justification of the delay in paying the revitalisation fund. In 2020, a nine-month strike by ASUU, which commenced in March and was called off in December, paralysed public universities in the country. The lecturers had gone on strike following their disagreement with the government over the funding of the universities and ineffectiveness and discrepancies around the Integrated Payroll and Personnel Information System, among others. ASUU, however, developed the University Transparency and...