Nigerian government cancels 2026 teacher institute admissions
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on Tribune Online
The Nigerian government has cancelled 2026 admissions to teacher training and university programmes at the National Teachers’ Institute in Kaduna, citing regulatory breaches. The Education Ministry has also ordered an end to university partnerships and recalled JAMB and NCCE requirements, according to Tribune Online.
The Nigerian federal government has cancelled all admissions for the 2026 academic session to the National Certificate in Education (NCE) and degree programmes of the National Teachers’ Institute (NTI) in Kaduna, citing regulatory breaches, according to the Federal Ministry of Education.
The ministry has also ordered the NTI to end its university affiliations and degree-awarding arrangements. The directive, signed by Folasade Boriowo, the ministry’s director of press and public relations, is based on the ministry’s operational guidelines published on 12 September 2025 and requires NCE admissions to comply with the rules of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) and the accreditation standards of the National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE).
Students already enrolled in the programmes concerned will nevertheless be able to complete them subject to the results of a full accreditation exercise by the NCCE covering NCE II to IV distance-learning programmes and their study centres in Nigeria’s six geopolitical zones, the ministry said. The National Universities Commission (NUC) is to notify the universities concerned and ensure that the NTI’s degree-awarding arrangements are stopped.
