THE Ondo state government has increased the number of teachers in Primary schools in the state with 900 National Certificate in Education (NCE) holders.According to the state’s Commissioner for Information, Kayode Akinmade, the 900 were redeployed from the local government service into the state Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB) to address the need for more teachers in Primary schools across the state.He reported thata three-day refresher course for the teachers is holding in four zones in the state with a centre each in Ondo, Akure, Okitipupa and Ikare .

AN American professor emeritus of education, Dr. Ivan Welton Fitzwater, once said “the future of the world is in my classroom today, a future with the potential for good or bad. Several future presidents are learning from me today; so are the great writers of the next decades, and so are all the so-called ordinary people who will make the decisions in a democracy.

THE immediate past Executive Secretary of National Universities Commission, Professor Peter Okebukola has stated that over 80 percent of teachers working in higher institutions in Nigeria have not received formal training, adding that, is a real challenge to the growth of education in Nigeria.

ABUJA – Nigeria was rated first in Sub-Saharan Africa and eighteenth in the World for International U.S higher education enrolment. The U.S Education Advisory Supervisor, Folashade Adebayo made this known in Abuja during the 16th Annual College and Career fair organised by the U.S mission in Nigeria.

EVBOTUBU — IT is easily one of the fastest growing communities around Benin- City, the capital of Edo State, but this is not the best of times for residents of Evbotubu in Egor Local government Area of the state. They are angry that the road leading community from the heart of the city is impassable. Whenever it rains, bus drivers charge as much as N200 from the Oba Market in the city centre to Evbotubu, instead of the normal N80 due to the appalling condition of the road.