The announcement of the endowment of Chief M.F. Lababidi Fellowship Fund at Columbia Business School (CBS) in New York, United States of America has opened a new window of opportunity to Nigerian students.

A 100-level student of Salem University (SU), Lokoja, Kogi State has emerged one of the best three students in an essay competition.

The new Senior Secondary School Education Curriculum (SSEC) whose implementation is to commence from September 2011 has thrown up a big challenge to teacher educators in the nation’s Colleges of Education, Polytechnics and Universities as they have to review their teacher preparation programmes in the context of knowledge of subject matter, teaching skills and competencies.

The new Minister of Education, Prof (Mrs) Ruqayyatu Rufa’i has urged the parastaltals under her ministry to emulate the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council by adopting the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiative in conducting their activities.

At the 29th Distinguished Lecture Series of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Otto/Ijanikin, Lagos State, delivered by Mr. Peter Ujomu, a researcher, sociologist and human resource practitioner titled “Contemporary Issues in Poverty and Nigeria’s Development,” said research has found that there is a high risk of educational underachievement for children who are from low income home.

Deputy Vice Chancellor, Lagos State University (LASU), Professor Ibiyemi Olatunji Bello has said that in the quest of the institution to meet the needs of a mega city it has introduced new courses into the University curriculum.

About 100 MTN staff were last week inducted by Leadmode into the Distance Learning Studies. Leadmode, the sole representative of University of Leicester, is partnering Resource Development International (RDI) in providing good education for Nigerians who want to obtain the United Kingdom degrees.

The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) which now function as Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME), for the first time since inception, held last Saturday its joint examination for students seeking admissions into universities, mono-technics, polytechnics and colleges of education in Nigeria.

Professor Ademola Onifade of Lagos State University counsels the new education minister, Prof Ruqayyat Rufa’i: “With due respect to theminister, she is a Professor of Education and I want to believe that she should be aware of the environment where she will be working.

The Russian Ambas-sador to Nigeria, Mr Alexander .O. Polyakov has expressed his desire to link the University of Lagos with higher Institutions in the Russian Federation, in the area of educational cooperatio.

The recent appointment of Professor Ruqayyatu Ahmed Rufai as Minister of Education has attracted mixed feelings from stakeholders in the sector. While some stakeholders are busy outlining the key areas in the sector where the Minister of Education should focus her attention on for ratification, others are querying the rationale behind her selection insisting that there are more qualified hands to take charge as Minister of Education.

Seventy-four best students in both Junior and Senior categories from each state of the federation and Federal Capital Territory sat for the second and final stage examination of the Cowbell National Secondary Schools Mathematics Competition (NASSMAC) held last Saturday April 17, 2010 at the Lagos Airport Hotel.

Westminster College, Lagos, one of the top secondary schools in the country, is in partnership with 20 overseas universities that will give direct admission to students for courses of their choice on successful completion of the university foundation programme at the college.

The N40 billion which the Katsina State government pumped into the education sector in the last two years has led to enrolment increase at both primary and secondary school levels.

The recent poor performance of the nation in football and other sporting activities has been blamed on neglect of the grass-root by those in authority.