In its quest to revive Igbo language in non-Igbo speaking states of the federation, Indigenes of Anaocha Town Union in Lagos State have unveiled plans to organise free Igbo Language lessons for children in various schools.

At the inception of Senator Liyel Imoke administration in Cross River State in 2007, the education sector was on the edge of a precipice. A lot had obviously gone wrong with the sector following neglect. But consistent innovation and remodeling injected into the sector these past six years have not only breathed new life into it but also ensured an enduring turn around.

Mimosa pudica commonly called ‘Touch-me-not’, Sensitive plant’, ‘Humble plant’ or ‘Shameful plant’ because of its reaction to touch, is a weed found throughout the tropics. Apart from its many traditional medicinal uses, a researcher at the Department of Pharmaceutical and Medicinal Chemistry, University of Nigeria Nsukka, Pharm. Justus Nwaoga, has discovered that the weed has solar properties suitable for the production of solar cell/electricity. Nwaoga spoke with Vanguard Learning in Ibadan recently. Excerpts:

The 2013 edition of the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) was last Saturday held in Nigeria and six other countries. But just like every other national exercise which has great economic impact, it becomes imperative to take stock of the sore points, challenges and prospects witnessed in the examination, which saw about 1.7 million candidates jostle for only 520,000 admission spaces in the nation’s tertiary institutions.

Almajiri, the boy who begs, is not only being taken off the streets of Katsina State, he also goes to school with monetary incentives, according to the State Commissioner for Education, Professor Aminu Kado Kurfi. Kurfi adds that parents in the state are equally being paid stipends to encourage them to send their girl-child to school. The commissioner, who became a Professor of Business Administration in Bayero University at the age of 44, unfolds the goodies in the education sector courtesy of the Governor Ibrahim Shema administration in Katsina State.