The authorities of the Fountain University, Osogbo have given scholarship to 38 students of the institution for the 2008/2009 academic session.

The resumption date presented the school children the opportunity to reminiscence on their experiences during the four-week holiday. As recounted by the school children, many of them were unable to travel during the holiday due to fuel scarcity. In fact, the fuel crisis hampered movement within the Lagos metropolis so much so hat the number of children at the various amusement parks that dot the city of Lagos reduced drastically when compared with the figure recorded during the previous yelutide seasons.

Hundreds of school-going children as well as their counterparts who are out of school gathered last Saturday at Oto area of Lagos State for an awareness programme organised by the Community Art Development Initiative (CADI), a non-governmental organisation.

The Bachelor of Dental Surgery and Bachelor of Nursing Science programmes in the Lagos State University College of Medicine, Ikeja will soon take off as the Resource Assessment Visitation of the National Universities Commission (NUC) has visited the College.

According to Prof. Ademola Onifade who is the Director of the Centre for General Studies, Lagos State University, the basic thing is for political leaders to stop giving poor attention and low priority to education, saying that they should be focussed and wholeheartedly committed to education.

The recent mass retrenchment of staff at Olabisi Onabanjo University, OOU, Ago-Iwoye, has been described as a necessary move to bring sanity to the troubled institution rather than to witch hunt the employees.

Peace has returned to Lagos State University (LASU) after Governor Babatunde Fashola waded into the crisis between the various unions of the institution and the embattled Vice Chancellor, Prof. Lateef Hussein over the alleged high handedness and other related allegations which led to the closure of the institution for six months.

It was not only ASUU that went on strike in the out-going year. The other unions — the Senior Staff Association of Nigeria Universities (SSANU) and the Non-Academic Staff Union of Educational and Related Institutions (NASU) — also battled the Federal Government, pressing for the signing of one agreement or the other which they allegedly reached with government.

Healthcare professionals in West African sub-region have been called upon to work together in the area of medical education, research and healthcare to enable Africa achieve self sufficiency in healthcare delivery system.

Recently, public schools from all the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) gathered in Abuja to showcase their instructional materials made from available local resources.

The Director of Studies, Universal School of Aviation, Mr Onifade Eedris Adekunle has called on youths and aviation industry stakeholders not to hesitate in contributing their quota to the upliftment of aviation industry in Nigerian adding that adequate knowledge of aviation would enhance national growth and minimize dangers in the industry.

AS year 2010 rolls in tomorrow, the managers of the nation’s education sector will be doing Nigerians a whole lot of good by making a new year resolution of taking the sector to an unprecedented higher level in 2010.

The positive impact which the Roadmap for Nigerian education is expected to have on the sector will soon start manifesting as the National Roadmap Implementation Task Team (NRITT) has swung into action in line with the systematic implementation strategy encapsulated in the Roadmap.

The Commandant, Command Day Secondary School, Ojo, Lagos, Lt Col U.N. Babangida has called on teachers and parents to catch their children young by molding them into great minds before they pass out of secondary school. Babangida made this known recently at the school’s 19th annual inter house sports competition.

At the recent National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), held at Niger Delta University, Wilberforce Island, Bayelsa State, it was dismayed by the report of mass sack and intimidation at Olabisi Onabanjo University, (OOU) Ago-Iwoye.