The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) which now function as Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), for the first time since inception, held last Saturday its joint examination for students seeking admissions into universities, mono-technics, polytechnics and colleges of education in Nigeria.

Professor Ademola Onifade of Lagos State University counsels the new education minister, Prof Ruqayyat Rufa’i: “With due respect to theminister, she is a Professor of Education and I want to believe that she should be aware of the environment where she will be working.

The Russian Ambas-sador to Nigeria, Mr Alexander .O. Polyakov has expressed his desire to link the University of Lagos with higher Institutions in the Russian Federation, in the area of educational cooperatio.

The recent appointment of Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai as Minister of Education has attracted mixed feelings from stakeholders in the sector. While some stakeholders are busy outlining the key areas in the sector where the Minister of Education should focus her attention on for ratification, others are querying the rationale behind her selection insisting that there are more qualified hands to take charge as Minister of Education.

Seventy-four best students in both Junior and Senior categories from each state of the federation and Federal Capital Territory sat for the second and final stage examination of the Cowbell National Secondary Schools Mathematics Competition (NASSMAC) held last Saturday April 17, 2010 at the Lagos Airport Hotel.