Nine Nigerian students between ages 16 and 18, have been nominated to join other outstanding students across the globe in an annual Global Young Leaders Conference (GYLC)holding in August 2012 in Washington DC, the US capital.

You hardly see people with BlackBerry and when you are seen with one, you often get: “Wow! he uses a Blackberry, he must be big or something!” That is what it feels like having a Blackberry in Nigeria. The other day, a guy walked up to me and said ‘this guy uses Blackberry, I saw this stuff on a billboard, it is a powerful machine!”

I once watched a television programme that featured young people being taken to the hospital as a result of Skinny Pants Syndrome a.k.a SPS. It was quite laughable-until I got my first pair of skinnies, and had to stand in them for an all-night vigil! Talk about not being able to breathe from your legs!

Only better funding and management can turn around the parlous state of technical and vocational education in Nigeria, says the Registrar and Chief Executive Officer of the National Business and Technical Examinations Board (NABTEB), Dr. Olatunde Aworanti.

A father on his deathbed called his wife and son to bid them farewell. Amidst the tears, the son drew close to his father to hear his final words to him. His father whispered into his ear: “Son, don’t do life like I did. I didn’t do right by you or by your mother and never really made a difference…