There is excitement in Osun State over the resuscitation of the Home Grown School Feeding and Health Programme adequately provided for by the Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola administration in the 2012 Budget.
Alhaji Abdul Lateef Kayode Jakande, former governor of Lagos State, in this interview, speaks on the burning issues in Nigeria as well as Lagos State. Excerpt.
The Sir Emeka Offor Foundation, SEOF, and US-based, Books for Africa, BFA, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, to distribute about 640,000 books and other study materials to Nigerian schools.
Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) National President, Prof. Ukachukwu Awuzie, said the union is still talking with government on the resolution of the crisis that caused the indefinite strike which has crippled academic activities in public universities across the country.
Head of Department, Arts and Social Sciences, Education, University of Lagos (UNILAG), Professor Ajike Osanyin has said that every child deserves being given the opportunities for manipulative skills that will enable him function efficiently in the society.
In a bid to teach pupils how to write essays, Holy Child College, Ikoyi, Lagos, last weekend held her 10th Annual Funfair and Bazaar to mark the end of year 2011, where students are expected to record their fun-filled experiences through written essays.
The year 2011 may not be markedly different from the immediate previous ones in respect of education. Most of 2011 can be regarded as disappointing in education virtually at all levels- primary, basic and tertiary.
MASTER Akinwale Oluwatola and Miss Olaitan Ibironke Lawal have emerged as the best candidates in the May/June 2010 WASSCE in Nigeria.
Determined to have a maintain standard for operation of academic programme at the post graduate level of nation’s university education, the National Universities Commission (NUC) has developed benchmark for minimum academic standards for thirteen post graduate disciplines.
The visitation panel to the Polytechnic Ibadan which was set up by Governor Abiola Ajimobi has recommended that the institution be converted to Oyo State University.
As the only indigenous public examination body in Nigeria charged with the task of conducting school-based (June/July) and External candidates (November/December) Senior School Certificate Examinations (SSCE) and also Junior Secondary School (JSI) as well as the National Entrance Examination into Senior Secondary Schools (SS1) of Federal Unity Senior Secondary Colleges (NEEFUSSC), the National Examinations Council (NECO) is confronted with several challenges which tend to undermine its smooth operations.
Chairman, DAAR Communications Plc., High Chief Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi has charged the Nigerian media to imbibe professionalism in the sourcing and dissemination of its daily information for public consumption, saying this would further aid in the national unity and development of the nation.
Mr. Okeme Idris, 200 level student of Criminology and Penology at Salem University, Lokoja, Kogi State over the weekend during a special programme organised by the institution for students to reflect on their past and present life, testified to how he was enslaved to drug addiction for 17 years.
The long anticipated visit of President Jacob Zuma of South Africa has come and gone. Prior to this visit, visible arrangements had taken place all over campus for several days and nights. President Zuma was in AUN on December 10 to receive an honorary doctorate degree bestowed on him by the University.
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