Eulogies have continued to pour in for the late literary icon, Professor Chinua Achebe, this time from an ex-student and a colleague who spoke on Achebe’s relationship with students and colleagues.

The Lagos State Chairman, Nigeria Union of Teachers, Mr. Samson Idowu, and the Rector, Sokoto State Polytechnic, Prof. Bashir Garba, have commended the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for institutionalizing a six-level national vocational qualification framework for the country.

Following the recent threats by the National Executive Council (NEC) of the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) to go on strike if a meeting with the Federal Government failed to grant their demands on the payment of Earned Allowance and rejection of the NEEDS Assessment Report in the university system, students in various institutions of higher learning have pleaded with both parties to consider the fate of students.

To provide quality education to residents, the Lagos State Government has set new rule for the transfer of students in public schools in the state. The state government has, therefore, stopped the transfer of students into junior secondary class two or senior secondary class two.

Health, they say, is wealth, so a situation where, according to statistics, about 300,000 people in Africa have lost their sight due to river blindness (onchocerciasis), more than 37 million people are infected while about 140 million are at risk of infection becomes a cause of worry. One then begins to wonder how such economies will be wealthy. Blindness is unarguably one of the worst diseases on earth, more so when it could have been easily prevented.