DESPITE considerable progress experienced in the education sector in 2014, stakeholders are still concerned that Nigeria is yet to overcome its numerous challenges bordering on; rot, kidnapping and killing of innocent school children in their schools by Boko Haram insurgents, increase in the number of out-of-school children, incessant strikes by staff unions over welfare and the state of teaching and learning facilities, and the dying prospect of meeting the 2015 United Nations’ deadline for Education for All.

THE Federal Government says it intends to inject N1.2 trillion into the nation’s universities for infrastructural development and capacity building within the next three years.

THE coordinator and founder of Mothers’ Summit, under the auspice of Funke Adejumo Foundation, Rev. Funke Adejumo, has clamoured for the need for parents to continuously map out quality time for their children to teach and guide them in the right direction in life, adding that a preserved childhood is better than a repaired adulthood.

LAGOS State University, LASU, was conceived by the Governor Jakande government as a university which will not only provide university opportunities for Lagos State residents but for all Nigerians and which would quickly attain a national and global standard befitting Nigeria’s self-proclaimed Centre of Excellence.

A PROFESSOR of Mathematics with Tai Solarin University of Education, Ogun State, Abayomi Arigbabu, has advocated for a five years training programme for teachers in place of the existing four years in Nigerian tertiary institutions.