THE amnesty programme created by the Federal Government may have failed as the fishing trawling sub-sector of the Nigerian economy has experienced an upsurge in attacks of fishing vessels.

About two hundred and thirty six candidates from sixty secondary schools in Ilorin took the Cowbell Milk sponsored National Secondary Schools Mathematics Competition, (NASSMAC) examination held at Queen Elizabeth School last Saturday in the first stage of the exercise to determine eventual winners of lucrative prizes lined up for the best successful students.

The one-year old Salem University, Lokoja, Kogi State is set to begin the implementation of an initiative which the University of Ibadan that came into existence in 1940s as well as the other first generation universities that were established in the ‘60s have not toyed with.

As part of efforts geared towards making students develop interest in mathematics as a way of enhancing the learning of sciences in our secondary schools as no nation can develop without mathematics, a non governmental organisation MCLILYVILLE , an education consulting firm in collaboration with Lagos State government organised a Mathematics Clinic for SS1 students in Lagos mainland last week. The clinic tagged No Maths No Vision 2020 brought together over 50 teachers and 500 students from different schools in Lagos mainland.

The exposition of school children to sports and other co-curricula activities should be encouraged before a school can claim to have given the children complete and functional education.