N igeria's university entrance exam may soon look very different. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) is thinking about changing the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) so that it tests critical thinking and life skills, instead of only what students have memorised in class. The board's Registrar, Professor Segun Aina, said the goal is to learn more than what candidates know. JAMB also wants to see how well they think, reason and use that knowledge to solve real-life problems. Aina shared the plan on Wednesday while a guest on Good Morning Nigeria , a programme on the Nigerian Television Authority (NTA). He said the board is reviewing how it designs its exams so they fit the needs of education today. To guide the process, JAMB has formed a committee of education experts and other stakeholders. The group will suggest how these skills can be measured. It will also decide whether they should form their own sections of the UTME or be woven into the cur...

G overnments, public bodies and media groups around the world have taken websites offline after experts found two serious security flaws in PHP, a programming language that runs a large part of the internet. A fix was released on Wednesday afternoon, and cyber-security agencies in several countries are now urging organisations to apply it quickly. Those who cannot do so in time are being told to consider shutting down their systems until the danger has passed. Some governments have already acted. Finland has temporarily closed its public government web services, while the Dutch cyber-security agency has taken its own website offline. The National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, another Dutch government body, has done the same, and the site of the Tweede Kamer, the lower house of the Dutch parliament, can no longer be reached. The US National Security Agency (NSA) posted a warning on X , saying the flaws "often provide a direct path to the server's file system ...