Lagos opens Nigeria’s first alternative school for girls
The school is designed to admit girls who dropped out of school due to early marriage, poverty, teenage pregnancy, displacement and so on
We made vehicle body parts from agric wastes – Okonkwo
The car industry uses materials such as iron, aluminium, copper, steel, plastic steel, glass, rubber, petroleum products etc., to build cars. Most of the weight of vehicles comes from steel. According to a report in Financial Week, ‘in 2007, the average car contained about 1,090kg of steel, and the average pickup truck or SUV used nearly 1,360kg of steel. Most cars now weigh around 1,360kg, and most SUVs weigh around 1,810kg. Apart from the cost, weight of vehicles and the problems associated with it, the fact is that Nigeria is still struggling with its steel manufacturing plant and is not yet producing iron and aluminium in large quantities, hence, the need for viable alternatives.
On the trail of Covenant varsity’s first class graduates
“WHAT’S the noise all about this First Class Honours of a thing? What is so special about these graduates with first class that everybody wants to know them? Many people don’t know that it’s just a lower margin in scores that brings a student down to second class Upper division.” These were the statements of some graduands at the Covenant University, Ota when a Vanguard reporter approached them to help spot out the first class among them for interview. Unfortunately that is one of the many regrets some graduates will live to remember in life.
ERC commiserates with OOU students
THE Education Rights Campaign, Ogun State Chapter, has joined students and staff members of the Olabisi Onabanjo University, Ago-Iwoye to mourn the untimely and unfortunate death of 12 students of the institution in in a fatal accident along the Sagamu-Benin expressway.
A mind-full of peace in a troubled world
mad” and he could stand it no longer, so he simply ended his life. A man left his wife and three children without telling anyone of his departure and whereabouts leaving his jobless wife to fend for his family and he returned about three years later.
Realistic university tuition: Matters arising (3)
Soremekun had been in the university system for years and he should know quite a lot about universities and corrupt practices. However, even if he knows everything, the logic in that statement escapes an objective reader. Is he saying that because “some sticky-fingered Vice-Chancellors” looted their universities all VCs are to be indicted and their universities should be starved of funds?
