PROFESSOR Babs Aliyu Fafunwa, former Minister of Education seemed not satisfied with the state of Nigerian education as standard and quality keep falling.

Really, it was a sight to behold when eight degree holders in different disciplines, five undergraduates and an OND holder graduated recently amongst other vocational students as caterers at EL Royalithos, Catering Services and Training Centre, Ejigbo, Lagos.

AS a result of the poor quality of teachers being produced by the nation’s Colleges of Education as exemplified by their lack of in-depth knowledge of subject contents, the Governing Council members of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education (AOCOED) have been urged to review the teachers education programme of the college and give premium to Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in order to enable the student-teachers of the college compete with their counterparts anywhere in the world.

Adekunle Ajasin University,Akungba-Akoko, Ondo State, has won a British Council special grant to develop a special programme on Language Documentation and Anthropological Linguistics.

PRESIDENT-GENERAL, Government College Ughelli Old Boys’ Association (GCUOBA) World Wide, Mr. Godwin Adokpaye has called for a national, comprehensive policy on Information Technology (IT) that will cover all levels of the education system and the entire Nigerian society.

“We are ready to give Nigeria a good language policy within the stipulated three months period and we will do justice to our terms of reference. A language policy Nigeria is necessary because we realised that the people who were behind the development of the advanced countries of the world were taught in their native languages.

Vanguard Media Limited, Tuesday, enlightened the students of Olabisi Onabanjo University during their excursion visit to the Headquarters of the organisation in Lagos.

About 70 Nigerian students who are currently studying for various degree programme at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom have been commended fro their brilliant academic performances.

As the nation gets set for her 50th Anniversary Celebration, the proprietress of Oyeleke Memorial College Offa Kwara State has called on Policy makers in the country to make education our national priority. She made the call while speaking on behalf of the four recipients of the honorary doctorate degree awarded by the All Saints University of America.

Dr Olusegun Abayomi Mimiko, Executive Governor of Ondo State has reiterated that there is no gainsaying that education is by all standard the major pivot on which human development, national progress, scientific and technological growth, social and environmental development revolves.

THE Niger-Delta states are looking up. From Cross River, Akwa Ibom to Rivers, the story is that the indigenes of these states are beginning to enjoy the dividends of democracy.

PRO-CHANCELLOR and Chairman, Governing Council, University of Lagos, Deacon Gamaliel Onosode, has called on the academic staff to give the university institutional loyalty in the quest for excellence and to consolidate achievements made so far.

The Deputy Director of Education (Ministry of Defense), Mrs Emilia Enebong has asserted that students’ potential is the tool for setting their limit in life. She said this recently at the Command Day Secondary School, Ojo10th valedictory service where a total of four hundred and seventy-seven (477) students graduated.

During the formal inauguration of the National Technical Committee on the development of a national language policy which recently took place at the headquarters of the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council, Sheda, Abuja, the members of the committee, who are professionals in languages, promised to come up with a language policy that will bring about rapid development of the country.

The Lagos State Ministry of Educational has commenced the implementation of a policy aimed at strengthening its inspectorate department as well as reinvigorating technical and vocational education in the state.