JubailI Bros Enginering Ltd, has come to the rescue of Opebi Senior Grammar School Students whose collapsing classrooms block posed serious threat to their lives. The company consequently built six classrooms block and donated the structure to the school as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility to the community.

We demolished the school’s dilapidated structures and constructed new ones. We also built a modern toilet. I also established a new school at Baruwa, that is Community Primary School, Baruwa and also at Community Primary School, Isefun, new classrooms were also built for them. At each of these schools we sank borehole and build modern toilet.

The VC stated that Caleb University decided to organise the training because a well-informed and trained staff is the backbone of good university administration. In his words, The delicate balance of manpower training, research and community service on which university operations are anchored can only be achieved if the staff saddled with responsibilities are versed in the norms of how things should operate for maximum efficiency.’

“We are embarking on protest to compel the Federal government to immediately sign and implement agreement reached with the striking unions so that students can resume academic work. We, Nigerian students, are tired of staying at home and we consider the federal government the party to blame in the current crisis, he said.”

While acknowledging the National Policy on Education (revised 2006) as an elegant document which makes prescriptions for the conduct of the business of education in Nigeria, it should be re-engineered to embrace comprehensive computer education and introduce Computer Assisted Learning (CAL) as much as possible in the basic and higher education systems, Professor Peter Okebukola, Chairman, Governing Council, Osun State University, Osogbo and immediate past Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission (NUC) has recommended.

“We remind the primary six graduands as they leave, that we expect them to be role models, and to show examples as paragons of excellence wherever they go.

The nine lucky students, who emerged through draw from the 24 shortlisted nominees, are among scores of Nigerian students whose applications to universities in the UK are being processed by PFL.

At a meeting of leaders of NASU in the 42 federal, state universities and inter-university centres, which held at the University of Lagos, leaders of NASU argued that besides the fact that the 20% salary award was discriminatory, lower than what was awarded to other category of workers in the system, it was not a product of negotiation, the issues at stake were more than salary but about the funding of the university system, about failing and decaying infrastructure among other things.

Explaining the reasons for establishing the University Foundation year programme in Nigeria while receiving the representative of the University of Buckingham in Lagos, the Director/Proprietor of Westminster College, Chief Johnson M. Barovbe, said that every year, the college sends out between 15 and 19 students to UK and USA universities to do the University Foundation course proceeding onto the main degree courses.

This call came from the NYSC Enugu State coordinator, Alhaji AbdulGani Olota during the Fayrouz pavilion, adding that the Nigerian Breweries Plc is a shining example of a great agent of positive change in the society through its Fayrouz NYSC camp activities across the country.

As a militant group which styled itself Joint Revolutionary Council (JRC), flayed the relocation and the approval of N14.5 billion for the Kaduna College, while the people of the Niger Delta are suffering, describing the decision as “evil wicked, condemnable and a representation of the demented, quality of leadership over the contraption called Nigeria.”

Education is in sordid state in the country. The university teachers are now on strike and being joined by the non-academic staff. It means the public universities in the country are not in session. When they call off the strike, which usually last months, the students are given examination to write on what they were not taught.

He added that CILT has the mandate of promoting, developing and coordinating the study and advancement of the science and art of logistics and transport management, explaining that the Institute provides government and the entire society an authoritative view on logistics and transport issues.

The 2009 edition of LIP is on-going now and scores of young Nigerians and students of higher institutions from across the six geo-political zones are being provided the opportunity to acquaint themselves with parliamentary structures and processes, with the objective of preparing them as future parliamentarians or parliamentary support staff.

The Director-General/CEO, EBS, Dr. Remilekun Bakare, in an interactive session, said the institution was incorporated in 2006 and commenced operation in 2007 in order to capitalise on a large and growing demand for academic programmes leading to British awards.