The wave of digital examinations continues to sweep through our educational system. The recent mass failure in JAMB (Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination) should be a wake-up call for everyone: students, parents, teachers, and policymakers. The bitter truth is: many Nigerian students are failing JAMB not because they are unintelligent but because they are digitally unprepared.Can...
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Chess Master 2025: “…Because We Dignified Their Stories And Empowered Them With Chess, They’re Seen And Celebrated As Champions.”— Tunde Onakoya
“Watching the kids walk up to the podium to receive their trophy made me feel something indescribable. “If they had wandered into Eko hotel as random street kids, they would have been rejected and ridiculed. But because we dignified their stories and empowered them with chess, they’re seen and celebrated as champions. “This is the...
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Educare CEO Alex Onyia And Others Call Government To Shut Down A Primary School Whose Students Dance Provocatively In A Video
“The government should shutdown this school. Every adult involved should be arrested and jailed. This is child abuse and should never be accepted in our society.” —Alex Onyia @ToniRhymze: “Every child in this video is a clear indication of bad parenting. Average Nigerian parents don’t censor what their kids watch on tv or listen on...
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WAEC: Parent Allegedly Sends Thugs After School VP Who Stopped Son From Cheating
Tensions escalated at Complete Child Development College in Ondo during the ongoing West African Senior School Certificate Examination (WASSCE) after a parent allegedly hired thugs to physically attack the vice principal for stopping their son from cheating. According to a statement released by the Ondo State Ministry of Education, the attack was reportedly triggered by...
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In today’s Saturday Tribune, I provide global parallels of server glitches in computer-based standardized tests similar to what happened to this year’s UTME and, while not lessening the horror of what happened, show that it isn’t unique to Nigeria.
JAMB’s Fiasco is Horrible, But It’s Not Unexampled By Farooq A. Kperogi The server glitch that led to unnaturally high failure rates in Lagos and southeast states in Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board’s Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) has alarmed the nation and provoked intense, impassioned debates about the integrity of computer-based standardized tests. There...
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