As threat to national unity, has been identified as one of the greatest challenges facing the nation, educationists who gathered for the 28th Annual National Conference of the National Association for the Study of Religions and Education (NASRED), last Tuesday, at the Federal College of Education, Osiele (FCEO), Abeokuta, Ogun State, have affirmed that religious education has a major role to play in the peaceful co-existence of the people, considering the nation’s multi-ethnic and pluralistic nature.

In line with the transformation agenda of President Goodluck Jonathan towards attaining the vision 20: 2020, the Director General/Chief Executive Officer, National Office for Technology Acquisition Promotion (NOTAP), Engr. Umar Bindir, has opined that Nigeria must take advantage of the merits of engineering and technology to drive the economy if it must achieve the development status to be among the top 20 economies in the world.

Mälardalen University offers a limited numbers of scholarships to students coming from countries outside of EU/EEA/Switzerland and they are required to pay tuition fees. The scholarship programme will cover 100% of the tuition fee for the program as long as applicants follow the normal study plan (minimum 22,5 credits/semester, minimum 45 credits/academic year). The scholarship is not open for students from the 12 countries which Sweden has long-term development cooperation. The application deadline is January

Nigerian-born Professor of Geochemistry and Physical Science at Saint Xavier University, Chicago, Prof. Christopher Chalokwu, has said that a paradigm shift in the governance and structure of Nigerian universities is needed to overcome the crisis in the education sector.

‘Two little black birds’ is a popular poem. At age four, practically any child can recite it. But Kayode is not just any child; born with Down’s syndrome, the 12 year old beams with pride as his teacher calls on him to recite the poem for this reporter.

“Contemplating a library, one feels as though in the presence of vast capital silently yielding incalculable interest”. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1749-1832.

After the adoption of February 2011 education summit communique in Osun State by Governor Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola administration, the state has witnessed major reform in the sector. However, the new revolution, has brought about reactions from some stakeholders in the state. The Deputy Governor, Osun State who also doubles as Commissioner for Education, Science and Technology, Iyaafin Grace Titi Laoye-Tomori in this interview with reporters at the State House addressed some lingering questions that surround the reformation of education in Osun.

The Association of Private Educators in Nigeria (APEN) has commended leading telecommunications services provider, Airtel Nigeria, for creating an array of robust and innovative telecommunications solutions to enhance and develop Small and Medium-Scale Enterprises across the country.

Recent Police interference in peaceful protests by education unions has become a cause for concern by stakeholders in the sector. Just last weekend, protesting primary school teachers and pupils in Makurdi, Benue State, were dispersed with teargas by the state police. In the past week alone, police authorities in Bayelsa, Rivers and Cross River ordered the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities, (ASUU) not to go on with their planned peaceful protests.

The Academic Staff Union of Polytechnic, ASUP, emergency congress held in Federal Polytechnic, Oko, Anambra State, was disrupted following an alleged attack on the Union’s officials, by one Mr. Amobi Chiamogu, an aide of the Polytechnic Rector, leading to destruction of official documents belonging to ASUP.