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ODEGBAMI: If you can’t get to the stars, land on the moon! 

A friend brought a young boy and his parents to meet with me earlier this week at the Eagle7 Bamboo Garden in Wasimi.  Such a meeting has become a regular feature in my routine as proprietor of a sports secondary school with the mission to empower young boys and girls with the combination of sports […]
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Biafra: In peace or in pieces

The right of the Igbo or other ‘minorities’ to secede from a constitutionally governed Nigeria must be located in the complex hyacinth of these jurisprudential argument. And it is a right concurrent with –if not inferior to- the right of the democratic ‘majority’ to deny

Lowering of standards for admission into varsities: The role of JAMB, NUC and the Senate (2)

LAST week I began an examination of the reasons for the drop in the standard for admission into Nigerian Universities with a focus on the role played by the Joint Admissions Regulation Board and how overtime, Universities began to notice a general deficiency in candidates admitted through the examinations conducted by the body. As I will later discuss, several factors, some of which were directly traceable to JAMB itself, were responsible for this development. However it cannot be denied that certain other factors also contributed to the decline in the quality of students admitted into the Universities.

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