The Junior Secondary School (JSS) is the second part of the nine year compulsory and free basic education every Nigerian child must have, according to the Compulsory, Free Universal Basic Education Act (2004). Typically, children between age 12 and 14 years are…
Primary school education is the initial part of the compulsory, free basic education every Nigerian child must have, according to the law. The data presented here shows the primary school enrolment rate in Nigeria on a state by state basis and by…
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has listed the official top scoring candidates in the 2018 edition of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). It said that this became necessary when it noticed that various names were being circulated on the…
This is the young adult literacy rate in Nigeria. The data presented here are based on figures made available to EduCeleb.com by the Federal Ministry of Education (FME). These figures represent the state of things regarding literacy of Nigerians between the ages of…
Over 70% of candidates who wrote the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) in four years scored below 200 despite the desire of a majority of them to study highly competitive courses that require more than that. This is deduced from the statistics of…
The University of Ibadan admitted more male students than female students in four years, a research work shows. EduCeleb.com gathered that the research work covered between the 2012/2013, and the 2015/2016 academic session. The research work titled “Analysis of Candidates’ Performance in…
A 54.59% credit pass in a minimum of five subjects including English without Mathematics was recorded in the recently concluded May/June West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE). They are from a total of One Million, Five Hundred and Seventy Eight Thousand,…
Nigeria won Iceland 2-0 in the World Cup on Friday. Beyond the exciting victory, we decided to compare the education system in both countries. Is the Nigerian education system better than that of Iceland? Find out with these infographics. Our parameters for…
A world universities ranking has once again put the University of Ibadan (UI) as the only Nigerian university to rank among the top 1,000 universities in the world. In the 2018/2019 edition of the global rankings released on Monday by the Center…
The 2018 Common Entrance Examination organised by the National Examinations Council (NECO) witnessed higher enrolment of 79,887 candidates compared to the 2017 edition with an enrolment of 78,378. Nigeria’s Minister of State for Education, Anthony Anwukah, disclosed this in Abuja on Saturday…
