States of the south-east Nigeria have concluded plans to mount an education support in an attempt to turn around the plank upon which the region’s greatness was built. The Education Summit is expected to hold in Owerri, Imo State, between May 9 and 10, 2013, with top world educationists and leaders ready to help the region reposition its major asset.

President Goodluck Jonathan has urged the 2013 batch ‘A’ corps members to endeavour to make the best of NYSC scheme within their service year so as to become important part of history of this laudable programme.

Just look at those girls coming, those two are ‘Titus,’ as you can see, they are slim. That one is a ‘shark’ because she is loaded, and the other one is ‘Cote’ because she is plump. None of them are really ‘endowed’, we use endowed for a girl that is spotless and perfect to look at”, Lekan Rabiu said, as his friends oohed, aahed nodded in agreement.

By the new webometric ranking released on 6th February, 2013, Obafemi Awolowo University, OAU, moved from being #8 in Nigeria to #1 and from 79 to No 14 in Africa.

A cross section of the 300 level students of the University of Ilorin have appealed to the school authorities to find a ‘soothing remedy’ to the high rate of failure recorded in two of their first semester general courses that were released recently.