The newly appointed Rector of the Federal Polytechnic, Ede, Osun State, Mr Patrick Hussaini, has said that insecurity is stifling the economic development of the country.

The Proprietress of Sound Hope Schools, Ipaja, Alhaja Fatmo Monayojo, has blamed the country’s fallen education system on bad leadership and loss of societal values.

The abysmal performance of Nigerian students in public examinations such as Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, West African School Certificate, National Examinations Council and other similar examinations across the country, has become a major concern to many stakeholders.

Following the Federal Government’s approval of three more federal universities to be sited in Gashua (Yobe); Birnin Kebbi (Kebbi) and Gusau (Zamfara), vice-chancellors, educationists and parents are divided on whether having 37 federally funded varsities is a step in the right direction.

Health, they say, is wealth and a healthy nation is a wealthy nation. Despite this truism, so many people the world over, especially in developing countries, do not have access to adequate health care and where they do, the cost is out of the reach of many. To solve the problem of reaching the unreached and making health care affordable, a US-based Nigerian physician, Dr. Steve Ayanruoh, invented a machine he calls Hospital-in-a-box.

The Minister of Education, Prof. Ruqqayatu Rufa’i Ahmed has said that the Federal Government would spend N12 billion on multimedia laboratories in all state and federal colleges of education across the country.

In fulfilling its bilateral agreement with the Nigerian government, the Japanese government handed over to the Federal Government 33 schools comprising 77 buildings and 317classrooms for basic education sited in Kano State.

Determined to ensure that their wards get the best educationally, the Bells University Parents Forum, BUPF, have commissioned a N45 million cafeteria and e-learning centre at the Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State.

The Students Union Government of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka has honoured the immediate past Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Prof. Edmund Egboh as the Most Hardworking and Outstanding Dean of the university.

The concept of sustainable cities has been said to be closely interconnected with environment and economy and the safeguard of natural resources, which in turn leads to minimum acceptable quality of life.