Twelve states in Nigeria owe secondary teachers their salaries, according to a recently released report by BudgIT. This is despite series of N1.8trillion bailouts from the Federal Government to such states. BudgIT is a civic organisation that uses tech tools to simplify…
The National Board for Technical Education (NBTE) has released the list of its ranking of Polytechnics in Nigeria. It made this public during the week at its Kaduna headquarters. This ranking involved a total of 112 polytechnics had Federal Polytechnic Nekede, Imo…
The number of out-of-school children rose from 10.5 million in 2010 to 13.2 million in 2015, a Demographic Health Survey (DHS) conducted by the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) and the Nigerian government revealed. The Executive Secretary of the Universal Basic Education…
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,…
