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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB has released the statistics of the 2021 UTME based on institution prospective candidates selected has first choice. The board disclosed that the University of Ilorin and University of Lagos, Akoka are the first two institutions who had the highest numbers of candidates who selected them as first choice universities in Nigeria. This was contained in the 2021 JAMB policy document signed by the JAMB’s registrar, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede. UNILORIN which was the first had 78,466 applications, UNILAG had 59,190, University of Benin, 49,763; University of Nigeria, Nsukka, 47,239; Federal University, Oye-Ekiti, 45,920;  Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, 44,509; Bayero University, 44,352; Nnamdi Azikiwe University, 43542; Obafemi Awolowo University, 42, 614 and University of Jos, 38,309. The report also revealed the performance statistics for 2021 UTME. According to the report, out of the total  1,312,992 applicants...

Some university students on Thursday appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities to consider their future and resume to work in their various institutions. Some of the students, who spoke with the  News Agency of Nigeria  in Enugu, expressed worries and lamented as they appealed for the suspension of the prolonged strike. The students said they were tired and frustrated due to the time wasted without any academic achievement. They said the strike would make them remain in the university more than it was necessary. ASUU has been on strike since March 2020 over demands for more funding for public universities and renegotiation of the 2009 FG/ASUU agreement. Others are outstanding earned academic allowances, the proliferation of universities by state governments, and the constitution of Visitation Panels to Federal Universities. A law student at the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Augustine Azubike, said he was appealing to the university lecture...

The management of the university of Lagos (UNILAG) has announced via it's official website that it has reopened it 20/2021 Post-UTME registration portal to allow interested candidates start or complete their applications. The online registration portal for the Screening Exercise will be re-opened for a period of fourteen (14) days, that is, between Tuesday, December 1, 2020, and Monday, December 14, 2020. Interested applicants are advised to use this opportunity to complete their applications, prospective candidates are equally advised to seize the opportunity to upload their awaiting results onto the portal.