Education
No feud between Akpabio, Bamidele
Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele has denied ever having any altercation with the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio.
This was contained in a statement issued by his media office noting that:
“Our attention has been drawn to fake news currently being circulated on the X handle of one Jackson Ude, a known serial blackmailer and cash-and-carry journalist.
“The post is about an alleged altercation and physical fight between Leader of the Senate, Senator Opeyemi Bamidele and President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday.
“For the record, it is a verifiable fact that Senator Bamidele has never been involved in physical assault in over two decades of his political trajectory, not even when he was a young man leading the National Association of Nigerian Students (NANS) as President.
“It is surprising that the purveyor of this misleading information in his selfish agenda and unprofessional conduct threw ethos of Journalism into waste bin and decided to feast on roadside gists to tarnish the image of the Senate Leader.
“We are aware that the fake news is meant to cause disaffection within the Senate and by extension; heating up the political system.
“To think that the Senate Leader, President of the Senate and other principal officers of the Senate together received the Chinese Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. YU Dunhai and his delegation few minutes after leaving the plenary on Wednesday is a significant testimony against Ude’s imagination.
“Further to this, photographs of the Chinese envoys with the leadership of the Senate were widely published in today’s major national newspapers. It is equally verifiable that the Senate Leader and the Senate President both drove out of the National Assembly premises in the same vehicle yesterday.
“This time again, the Senate Leader is sounding a note of warning to all attention seekers in the ilk of Ude to be careful and not take the Leader’s gentlemanliness for granted.
“Henceforth, the Leader will be forced to use the instrumentality of the law to protect himself and his office as enshrined in the CyberCrime Act 2015.
” We, therefore, urge the public to disregard this misinformation and treat it with the disrespect it entirely deserves.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has announced that results for candidates who sat for the first day of the 2026 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) will be released before midnight on Friday.
This was contained in a statement shared via X, JAMB’s spokesperson, Fabian Benjamin.
The post reads “RELEASE OF RESULTS FOR THE first day of the 2026 UTME .
This is to inform all candidates who sat for the 2026 UTME on Thursday, 16th April 2026, that their results will be released today before midnight.
“An official announcement will be made to the public and posted on this page as soon as the results are available.
Recall that the examination began on the 16th of April 20226.
The West African Examinations Council has released the timetable for the 2026 West African Senior School Certificate Examination for school candidates.
According to the final international timetable shared on WAEC’s official X handle on Monday, the examination will begin on Tuesday, April 21, 2026, and end on Friday, June 19, 2026.
The council said the examination will start with Foods and Nutrition 3 (Practical) Planning Session and Home Management 3 (Practical) Planning Session.
The examination includes core subjects such as English Language and Mathematics, along with a range of elective subjects in sciences, arts, humanities, and vocational or technical fields.
The National Examinations Council (NECO) has released the results of the 2025 Senior School Certificate Examination (SSCE) for external candidates, with 71.63 per cent of them achieving five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics.
Announcing the results on Tuesday, the Registrar and Chief Executive of NECO, Danlami Wushishi, disclosed that a total of 96,979 candidates registered for the examination nationwide.
Of this number, 51,823 candidates, representing 53.43 per cent, were males, while 45,156 candidates, representing 46.56 per cent, were females.
According to him, 95,160 candidates eventually sat for the examination, comprising 50,785 males (53.36 per cent) and 44,375 females (46.63 per cent).
Wushishi stated that 93,425 candidates sat for the English Language examination, out of which 73,167 candidates, representing 78.32 per cent, obtained credit passes and above. He added that 93,330 candidates sat for Mathematics, with 85,256 candidates, representing 91.35 per cent, securing credit passes and above.
He revealed that 68,166 candidates, representing 71.63 per cent, obtained five credits and above, including English Language and Mathematics. In addition, 82,082 candidates, representing 86.26 per cent, recorded five credits and above, irrespective of English Language and Mathematics.
NECO Registrar Danlami Wushishi and other officials during the announcement of the 2025 SSCE results for external students.
On examination malpractice, the NECO Registrar disclosed that 9,016 candidates were booked for various forms of malpractice, compared to 6,160 cases recorded in 2024, indicating an increase of 31.7 per cent.
He also announced that some supervisors and centres were sanctioned for their involvement in malpractice.
According to him, two supervisors from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) and one each from Kano and Lagos States were recommended for appropriate sanctions.
Furthermore, four examination centres—two in Niger State, and one each in Yobe and Lagos States—were found culpable of whole-centre malpractice and have been recommended for de-recognition.
The NECO chief reaffirmed the organisation’s commitment to maintaining the integrity and credibility of its examinations and warned stakeholders against engaging in practices that undermine the examination process.
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