THE Federal Government has said that it will continue to pay high premium on education as part of its transformation agenda geared towards making Nigeria one of the largest economy by the year 2020.

Deeply worried by the unethical attitudes displayed by members of the Fourth Estate of the Realm towards reporting conflict situations across the world, Ufuk Dialogue Foundation and Nigerian Turkish Nile University, Abuja, recently brought together media practitioners, media scholars, captains of industries, politicians and students to discuss possible ways that the media can be socially and ethically responsible in reporting conflicts.

The President, Nigerian Academy of Letters and former Executive Secretary, National Universities Commission, NUC, Professor Munzali Jibril, has called for funding of reforms in Nigerian higher education system to diversify its recourse base and deliver the quality output that is needed to make Nigeria a respected player in the knowledge economy of the 21st Century.

Imagine a digital campus where students’ history can be accessed by the click of a mouse; where parents, students, teachers and school managements can be integrated on one ICT platform.

The Permanent Secretary,Ministry of Education, Lagos State, Mrs. Omolara Erogbogbo, has urged parents to take advantage of the free basic education offered by the state government and send their children to school.

The Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools of Nigeria (ASUSS) in Ogun State has blamed the crisis rocking the education sector on massive corruption of the leadership, describing the nation’s educational system as dysfunctional.

Worried by the need for students to have good grasps of the theories of their disciplines as well as the capacity to practically apply theoretical knowledge acquired to solve problems in a variety of situations, Beloxxi Industries has commissioned the Beloxxi Business Simulation Laboratory Project at the University of Lagos.

A 52-year-old board member of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, Honourable Charity Shekari, has won a £15,000 scholarship for a master’s degree programme abroad.

A Batch A corps member, Tom Samuel serving in Gadabuke Development Area of Nasarawa State has built an ICT resource centre for the residents of Kullo Village in the area as part of his determination to positively affect the lives of people in his place of primary assignment.

Masters Benjamin Uwa and Akintokun Adegboyega, have become superstars in their own right, having won the 2012 edition of the Cowbell National Secondary School Mathematics Competition (NASSMAC) which has made them more popular among their peers in their individual schools and homes.