The Ambassador of The Royal Kingdom of Netherlands, Mr. John Groffen, has commended the management of Business School of Netherlands, Nigeria, over its role in strengthening the relation between the two countries.
Groffen gave the commendation when he paid a working visit to the Business School of Netherlands (BSN) Abuja, Nigeria, as part of on-going efforts to strengthen the tie between his country and Nigeria.

Experts have called on Volunteer Teachers to act as agents of positive change and transformation to enable the nation to achieve its education goals. Mrs Ibukun Awosika, founder, Afterschool Graduate Development Centre (AGDC), said this in her keynote address at the Lagos Eko Secondary Education Project Volunteer Teachers Scheme Award held in Lagos recently.

A Professor of Nuclear Physics at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Professor James Bolarinwa Olomo, has been declared missing by members of his family.
Olomo was said to have checked into Hotel Farlem at 8, Archibong Street, Afaha Ukwu, Eket, in Akwa Ibom State on Thursday, October 17, before his disappearance three days later.

CANCER, the dreaded six-letter word, is considered one of the most feared disease conditions on earth. Unfortunately, scientists have not been able to pinpoint what exactly causes cancer. They, however, believe that the only solution is early detection/diagnosis.

Born with the view to help Nigerian teenagers develop a mind-set that will enable them locate their potentials early enough in life, publishers of 9nineteen, a life coaching magazine, recently partnered Lagos State Ministry of Education (District 3 Eti-Osa), in educating teenage girls on better approach to achieving their desired dreams.

First Lady of Ogun State, Mrs. Olufunso Amosun has stated that the 20 best students who emerged in 2012/2013 WAEC from Ogun State will be flown abroad for leadership training.
She said, “We will be taking the best students abroad for leadership training programme in the first quarter of 2014 as a reward for their excellent performance in the last WAEC.”

An architect, Ebiwene Bozimo has expressed concern over the declining standard of education in the country.
Bozimo, who made the observation through a press statement made available to Vanguard, said he has resolved to seek opportunities to address the declining standard of education in the country through political power.

Once upon a time, a citizen was arrested by one of the Barons and shut up in a dungeon. He stayed in the dark dungeon for 20 years. Each day, the jailer would come into the cell to give him a pitcher of water and a loaf of bread and immediately afterwards, the door was closed again. Well, after 20 years, the prisoner had reached his threshold limit and he decided he wasn’t going to continue living in that condition any longer so he planned that rather than committing suicide, he was going to assault the jailer who would then kill him in self-defence.

The Standing Committee inaugurated by the Lagos State Government on the harmonization of Schools’ Calendar, examinations and curriculum has submitted its recommendations.

Even the brightest minds in the country would never have guessed that 50% of the academic calendar of Nigerian universities would be lost in 2013. Research and investigations would not have been able to reveal beforehand the loss of lives in Northern schools, the results of the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations, the abysmal performance of students in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations or the limited admission spaces akin to the passage of a donkey through the eye of a needle.