With unemployment rates on the rise, even for university graduates, experts have had to question the turn which the education sector is taking. As mainstream education grapples with survival amidst many challenges, there are other aspects of education where the average Nigerian student does not stand a chance when compared to his counterparts in the global village; aspects of education that seem to be forgotten.

Saddened by the current trend where youths no longer concentrate on the indepth acquisition of skills, but material gains to be derived, Dr. Ridwan Adeyemi, a lecturer at the Department of Public Relations and Advertising, Adebola Adegunwa School of Communication, Lagos State University, last Thursday, advised the students, who aim to end up in the media industry after school, not to see material gains as priority.

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After three years of being appointed the Rector, Yaba College of Technology, Lagos, the institution has witnessed series of academic and infrastructural development under the leadership of Dr. Margaret Ladipo. As part of efforts to mark these giant strides, Ladipo looks back at what her administration has achieved, even as she called on government for more grants to fund research, security and further developmental projects.

Comfort Msurshima Ajem is a 300 level student of Mass Communication and the Kumashe u Tiv of the Benue State University, Makurdi. In this interview, she talked about her experiences and public misconception about her crown.

The Ogun State Government has given a hint that the free education system running in the state was being threatened, even as it harped on the need to include civic education into the curriculum of all the public schools in the state.