On Monday, June 4, the nation woke up to the reality that her school children will again have to face the daunting experience of having to stay away from the classroom following calls by the teachers under the aegis of the National Union of Teachers, NUT, to embark on an indefinite strike.

The Director, Avial International Consult Limited, Mrs Bola Agunbiade has stated that vital courses that can contribute to technological leap are either not offered in Nigerian education curricular or lack local technology to have an optimised studying or learning impact.

The Rivers State Government says it will promote study of Mathematics among pupils and students across the schools in the state. The Rivers State Commissioner for Education, Dame Alice Lawrence-Nemi stated this while receiving the students that represented the country at the 2013 Pan-African Mathematics Olympiad (PAMO) at the National Mathematics Centre in Abuja.

Governor Babatunde Fashola (SAN) of Lagos State, has said the state government will not be derailed from its set goals for the people, in spite of the daunting problems facing the nation.

The 2013 edition of Microsoft Imagine Cup Competition, the football World Cup equivalent in software design attracted no fewer than 309 students from 71 countries who have gathered in St. Petersburg, Russia to compete in three main categories like World Citizenship, Games and Innovation.

In what could be described as a near collapse of the nation’s tertiary education sector, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) is now in the fourth day of its indefinite strike action. The ASUU strike is the newest cart in the bandwagon of industrial actions in the sector; Eight weeks ago, the academic and non-academic staff unions in Nigerian Polytechnics, under the umbrellas of Academic Staff Union of Polytechnics (ASUPS), Senior Staff Association of Nigerian Polytechnics (SSANIPS) and Non-Academic Staff Union (NASU), embarked on a nationwide indefinite strike, over what they termed Federal Government’s insensitivity to their plights.

The Housefly (Musca domestica), is viewed by humans as a pest. Often seen on garbage heaps, pit toilets, sewers, dumps, feeding on faecal matter, discharges from wounds, and moist, decaying matter, they are seen as carriers and transmitters of at least 65 diseases to humans.

Lagos Business School as part of its drive to contribute to human capital development across the continent has pledged its commitment to develop talents in Africa through programmes specifically targeted at organizations with pan-African outlook and those seeking to develop the next generation of leaders.

Chairman, House of Representatives Committee on Education, Honourable Aminu Suleiman while using the results of WASC and NECO candidates in recent past as yardstick for evaluating quality of education in Nigeria lamented that less than 10 per cent of the candidates have obtained minimum of five credits including English and Mathematics.

Security measures on all corps members’ lodges have been put in place nationwide by the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), the Chairman, NYSC Governing Board, Chief Gordon Bozimo has said.