HUMBLE, humane, team player, generous, unassuming, the list goes on. These were the adjectives used to describe the late Professor Adetokunbo Babatunde Sofoluwe, the 10th Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos by staff, students and associates when Vanguard Learning went to feel the pulse on campus following the sudden death of the helmsman.
Their black attires showed the mood of thousands of students at the University of Lagos on Tuesday as they took to the streets in a candlelight procession for their late Vice Chancellor, Professor Adetokunbo Sofoluwe, who passed on last week.
There is no bullying and fagging in this school.” The JSS 1 student told me. And I believed her. After being beaten and punished for five of six years in the boarding house, I believed her. It didn’t matter that I stood on the grounds of a Pro Unitate school that reminded me of my own alma mater.
WITH all the troubles brewing at the University of Abuja, Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqayyatu Rufa’i has said the institution was a typical example of system failure of the country’s learning environment which requires urgent and total overhauling.
In the drive to achieve education for all by 2015, the Federal Government has marked the education of the girl-child as top priority with the aim of bridging the disparity of gender education in the country.
TO fully prepare Nigerian children for 21st century e-learning challenges with adequate IT skills and knowledge, Laptops4Learning in partnership with Flour Mills of Nigeria have empowered Kuramo Primary School with 50 laptops for technology based learning.
The efforts of the Governor Olusegun Mimiko-led government in Ondo State at repositioning the state’s education sector has recorded another major boost with Master Akinboboye Akinwande, a JSS 3 student in the state, emerging the overall winner of the 2012 Edition of the All Nigeria Conference of Principals of Secondary Schools (ANCOPSS) National Quiz Competition.
Governor Abiola Ajimobi of Oyo State has been urged to make the Ibadan North Local Government Skills Acquisition Centre located at Yemetu Aladorin a diploma- awarding institution.
AFTER about five months of delay in sitting for their 2010/2011 second semester examination, students of the Lagos State University External System (LASUES) heaved a sigh of relief as authorities of the university finally announced May 21 for the commencement of their long awaited exams.
Resolute about its position to ensure that universities across the country do not run programmes that are not approved by the National Universities Commission (NUC), the commission recently approved 30 programmes for National Open University of Nigeria, NOUN. The approval came on the heels of abuse of the Part-time and sandwich programmes in the nation’s learning institutions.
The falling standard of education in Nigeria will soon be a thing of the past, thanks to a centre for online learning.
Election of principal officers to pilot the affairs of the Zone D of the National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, was held at the association’s 5th convention at the Moshood Abiola Polytechnic, Abeoguta, Ogun State.
THE Pharmacy Foyer of the Faculty of Pharmacy, Obafemi Awolowo University, (OAU), Ile-Ile was filled to the brim as the Pharmaceutical Association of Nigerian Students (PANS) organised a sensitization programme tagged: Headroom which comprised oratory contest and edutalk.
As the issue of environmental pollution rages and nations are seeking alternative energy sources devoid of carbon emission, Nigeria, as a major oil-exporter, will be hard hit if nothing is done. To this end, Professor James Omoleye of the Department of Chemical Engineering and former Director, Centre for Research, Covenant University, Ota Ogun State, began a series of researches with his team which culminated in the making of an electric automobile and a power bike. In this chat with Vanguard Learning, Omoleye says Nigeria is far ahead of some nations in this area. Excerpts:
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