Social media was awash last weekend with news that the Senate had signed a ‘child marriage act’ into law, legalizing marriage for girls under the age of 18. Although lawmakers have corrected this notion, saying that the section stated above only relevant to “renunciation of citizenship” alone, the ruckus has created ample opportunity for well meaning Nigerians to campaign for education for the girl-child instead of under-aged marriage.

Eminent educationist and Managing Director of Westminster College (WC), Lagos, Chief Johnson Barovbe, has berated the over emphasis on theoretical education in basic and tertiary teaching across schools in the country.

Parents have been advised to invest in their children’s education as by so doing, they are laying solid foundation for a brighter future for them.

No fewer than a hundred students who graduated from different secondary schools in Nigeria are ready to depart the country to attend various universities in the USA.

The winner of the Indomie 2013, National Spelling Bee Competition, Master Boadley Juwon Afolarin, who emerged this year’s One-day-governor, on Monday, July 22nd, paid a courtesy call to the corporate headquarters of Dufil Prima Foods, major sponsor of the annual spelling Bee competition.

In pursuit of its vision to become the most loved brand in the daily lives of Nigerians, leading Telecommunications Services Provider, Airtel Nigeria, has made a bold intervention in the advancement of primary education in Cross River State with the adoption of Presbyterian Primary School 2, Ediba in Abi local government area of Cross River State.

UMUAHIA—Chairman, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia State, chapter of ASUU, Dr. Uzochukwu Onyebinama, has accused the Senate Committee on Education of according leaders of the union shabby treatment, warning that the ongoing strike would last longer than Nigerians expected.

Ms. Pamela Esiri is the founder and President of Emoeferotu Foundation, a not for profit organization which offers children and young people in rural areas of the Niger Delta education. An environmental lawyer, Esiri, who hails from Abraka, Delta State, was moved by the passion to give voice to the voiceless and access to education to the less privileged. Over the past six years, Emoeferotu which, in her local dialect, means, ‘Children are the wealth of the society’, has been active in fulfilling its mission.

Although the Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUP) suspended its 81-day-old nationwide strike on Tuesday, stakeholders in the sector have expressed concern that members of the union may again down their tools after the one-month time frame given to the Federal Government to tackle relevant issues.

Originally, we must have had similar skull and facial features as the rest of the races of the world, till syphilis crept in unnoticed into our national life centuries ago to cause these deformities in addition to the ongoing high morbidity and mortality.” This was the assertion of Dr. William Egbuna, Chief Consultant Physician/Medical Director, Egbuna Adazia Hospital, Onitsha.