Parents have been advised to show good examples to children at home so that the children can exhibit good behaviour in the school, the proprietor Prospect College, Ketu, Mr. Phillips Opatola gave this advice last week in Lagos while addressing the third graduation ceremony of the college.

Governor Adams Oshiomhole of Edo State says that education is decisive to development and democracy, even as he expressed commitment to invest more resources in education as a priority sector.

It is a common sayingthat education is the best legacy parents can bequeath to their children. The United Nations says that education is a right of every child that should not be infringed upon. Indeed, education is seen as the surest path to a country’s development. Notable personalities around the world have lent their support in one way or the other to the struggle of making governments around the world to realize the importance of education.

Undoubtedly, the reading culture of our nation seems to be dying gradually as values are shifting from good behaviour, moral uprightness, literary dexterity, creativity, acquisition of positive, constructive knowledge, to the profane, mundane values of greed, avarice, despondency and materialistic tendencies. Nigeria is at educational crossroad which underscores the need for the development of a healthy, robust reading culture which is the foundation of a sound education system.

Anaesthesia is a specialization of medicine that deals with reversible, controllable and predictable methods of pain relief for operative surgery; with or without loss of consciousness. Anaesthetists primarily therefore work in the operating theatre. However and owing to their in-depth training on principles of measurement and monitoring equipments as well as acute medicine, anaesthetists are often in charge of the Intensive Care Units.

The continued withholding of the results of the 2010 May/June Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination in Bayelsa State by WAEC may scuttle the high education aspiration of the affected students in the state.

President Goodluck Jonathan through the Minister of Education has in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital flagged off the training of over 140,000 teachers nationwide in line with the federal government 2010 Millennium Development Goal declaring that the country’s crusade against poverty reduction will continue to be a mirage if it fails to invest in the educational sector.

About One Hundred and Twenty (120) participants were awarded certificates and prizes as the 2010 Summer School Programme of Caleb International College, Magodo, Lagos, came to an end on Friday September 3, 2010 with lots of fun, exhibition and award presentation.

Crawford Univer-sity, Faith City, Igbesa, Ogun State, inaugurated a reconstituted Board of Trustees (BOT) as the term of the pioneering board which came into existence in 2005 when the institution was licensed by the Federal Government has expired.

Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko played host to accreditation teams of the National Universities Commission NUC between Monday, August 30 and Saturday, September 4, 2010. Made up of 6 Teams, the NUC delegation was warmly received by the Management led by the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Femi Mimko.

Leading Information and Communications Technology Company, Computer Warehouse Group recently played hosts to graduating Computer Science Students from the University of Ibadan. The students were on a tour of the Company’s infrastructure as a preparatory step before they get absorbed into the corporate industry.

Tertiary education may collapse at anytime from now in Lagos State as the academic and non-academic unions in all the institutions of higher learning have declared trade dispute over non-implementation of negotiated agreements reached with government.

These graduates are found to be deficient in several area of professional practice leading to huge criticisms by employers of labour who had to spend a huge budget to retrain these graduates.

Rapid economic growth and its sustainability as well as the empowerment of the citizenry, which are indices of national development, have continued to elude Nigeria because of the lip service being paid to science and technology.

A number of equipment such as 30 KVA generating set, inverters, a Toyota Hiace minibus, digital cameras, field equipment among other facilities, valued at N50 million, which were recently donated to the Geology Department of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria by Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, have been commissioned.
The assistance was made under the company’s Universities Partnering Programme.