The West African Examinations Council (WAEC) has announced that the results for 2021 General Certificate Examination (GCE) will be released today.

This is contained in a tweet posted via the WAEC official account on Sunday night.

It read “@waecnigeria is set to announce the release of results of WASSCE for Private Candidates, 2021- Second Series tomorrow, Monday, February 14, 2022. Stay tuned for more details!”

Usually written in November/Dember, the GCE/WASSCE is a private examination that doesn’t require uniforms, but biometric registration is compulsory.

The examination is usually taken by secondary school leavers who want to correct deficiencies in their results.

A member of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Academic Staff Union who attended the just-concluded meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) told News correspondence that the union resolved to embark on a one-month “comprehensive and total” strike.

According to the source, the union took the decision despite interventions by many prominent Nigerians.

He said the decision was to save Nigeria’s university system considering what he described as the deteriorating state of Nigerian universities.

He said the government’s recalcitrance made the position unavoidable.

 “The indefinite and total strike is for four weeks. We hope the government would do the needful within the next four weeks,” the source stated on Monday morning.

However, ASUU is yet to issue an official statement concerning the strike.

More details later.

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has called for improved deployment of digital technology for mass education and healthcare.

Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande, in a statement on Saturday in Abuja, said the Vice President spoke at the United Bank for Africa (UBA) Group Chairman’s Forum for 2022, held at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja.

The Vice President said that Nigeria had experienced significant growth in the use of digital technology and in number of technology companies.

“Beyond all, of the successes that we are seeing, we need to educate a large number of people and train teachers.

“ That’s going to be a major issue in all of this especially in states where we have a large number of out-of-school children,” he said.

The Vice President said that providing more access to education and healthcare services to a larger number of the population had to be technology driven to ensure maximum impact.

He restated Nigeria’s commitment to net-zero emissions by 2060.

The Vice President said that energy transition was important to Africa and developing countries.

He said that digitisation and climate change would largely determine Africa’s growth trajectory in decades ahead especially as digital technology offered the most effective way for Africa to fast-track development.

“And technology must play a role; technology must play an increasing part in our abilities to be able to reach our population everywhere they may be,” Osinbajo said.

On the growth of digital technology in Nigeria and on the continent, Osinbajo said that Africa’s total inbound international internet bandwidth capacity increased by more than 50 times.

“The operational fibre-optic network extended by almost four times; mobile telephony, mobile cellular subscriptions more than doubled; and about 58 per cent of the population now live in areas covered by 4G networks.

“Africa has over 480 million mobile money accounts, more than all other developing regions taken together, over 640 tech hubs are active across the continent.

“Here in Nigeria, we have six unicorns, most of them fintech companies, valued at over a billion dollars. We are also leveraging digital technology in various ways,” he said.

On climate change and its impact on Africa, Osinbajo reiterated the importance of placing premium consideration on African needs in the transition to net-zero emissions.

According to the Vice President, the issue goes beyond just climate change to the existential crisis of extreme poverty in Africa.

The event was hosted by the UBA Group Chairman, Tony Elumelu, and was attended by some members of the National Assembly, members of the diplomatic corps, among other dignitaries.

The Vice-Chancellor of the Olabisi Onabanjo University (OOU), Ago-Iwoye, Prof Ganiyu Olatunde, has disclosed that the institution has revamped the Transcript Office with the setting up of the e-Transcript Request System.

The VC said, with this new system, university’s graduates could request their transcripts from anywhere in the world without passing through any agent or coming to Ago-Iwoye.

Olatunde stated this during the combined 30th and 31st convocation ceremonies for graduands of the 2019/2020 and 2020/2021 sessions.

The outgoing VC used the occasion to highlight some of the landmark achievements recorded by the institution while in office and part of which centred on intervention on ICT.

He disclosed that OOU was the first university in the country to conduct a computer-based test (CBT) examination for admission of applicants without them having to be physically present on campus.