By Emma Amaize WARR I -  MOVEMENT for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta (MEND) says it does not require the blessings of every militant leader in the region to constitute a negotiating team to present its demands to the Federal Government. Spokesman of the group, Jomo Gbomo in an exclusive electronic mail response to Vanguard […]

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First, the solution to the crisis in Nigerian public education is not in
the creating of more second rate degree mills that have neither reason nor rhyme. It is in the proper funding, planning, and elevation of existing public universities. Second, it must be emphasized that not everybody currently in the university is made for university education.

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Again, some people may question how successful these imported ideas have been. If they didn’t work out well, it would have been the Nigerian factor that was at play, not that those ideas were bad. In most national issues, the average Nigerian has a way of putting himself first, thinking of how he can benefit from it personally than to how much good it would do the country and its citizens.