TO build a healthy environment and help meet item 7 of the MDGs by 2015, a lecturer in the Department of Civil Engineering, Covenant University (CU), Ota, Ogun State, Dr David Olukanni and his team have come up with an optimized pilot-scale wastewater treatment system, a cost-effective waste management and treatment process for developing nations.

The year 1999 will remain a landmark year in the history of Nigeria. Most of us remember it as the year the military returned government for the second time after almost 16 years since the coup of 1983 which brought an end to the Second Republic. The Third Republic was aborted in 1993 when the Presidential election was annulled after the June 12, 1993 elections.

The Administrator,Bethlehem Girls College, Rev. Sister Felicitas Osinde has said that girls must be spiritually, physically, emotionally and intellectually empowered to appreciate the dignity of womanhood. Osinde said this last weekend at the Eucharistic Mass to celebrate the one year anniversary of the school.

The National Commission for Colleges of Education, NCCE, has commended the Lagos State Government and management of Michael Otedola College of Primary Education, MOCPED, Noforija, Lagos, for the monumental development, proper funding and management of the college.

Millions of Nigerian students celebrated the country’s 53rd year of independence from the comfort of their homes, kudos to the ongoing strike by the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU).

As the national struggle of ASUU to save Public Education especially the University system entered its third months, the Academic Staff Union of Universities ASUU has accused the Federal Government of paying lip-service to Education development in Nigeria.

A passionate appeal has gone to industries in the country to stop the rejection of undergraduates posted to their firms for industrial training. The Vice Chancellor of the Federal University of Technology, Akure, FUTA Professor Adebiyi Daramola stated this while receiving officials of the Industrial Training Fund/Students Industrial Working Experience Scheme (ITF/SIWES) who were in FUTA for the Ekiti /Ondo axis Zonal quarterly meeting.

The Education Rights Campaign (ERC), has refuted the statement made by the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Youth and Student Matters, Mr. Jude Imagwe, that the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is being economical with the truth on the issues of contention in the on-going strike.

For more than two decades now, there seem not to be any sector of the Nigerian economy that has generated much ado and giving much cause of worry in a comparably equivalent degree as the Education sector hence, the condition of the sector formed the bone of contention in the 17th Annual Prof. Fafunwa Educational Foundation Lecture held recently at the National Institute of International Affairs(NIIA), Victoria Island.

Diamond Bank Plc has launched an international multipurpose debit card for students of Covenant University, Ota, Ogun State, which would enable them carry out financial transactions such as paying for school fees, online payments as well as voting during their students’ Union elections.