FOR Nigeria to benefit from the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme and to conform with the modern practice across the world, the Chancellor, Novena University, Ogume, Delta State, King Alfred Papapereye Diete-Spiff has urged the Federal Government to modernise the NYSC scheme in our country.

Dr. Charles Nwekeaku is the Head of Department, Public Administration, Nasarawa State University. In this interview with Favour Nnabugwu touches on issues bordering on the decay in the education sector and the way forward. Excerpts.

The founder of Reading is Fun book club, Mrs Tola Gbogboade, has said that the major reason why she started the reading club was to inculcate reading habit in the Nigerian children.

The Federation of Oyo State Students Union (FOSSU) National Council and the local chapter of the union at the Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH), Ogbomoso, recently conferred a posthumous honorary award in honour of the former premier of the defunct Western region, late Samuel Ladoke Akintola.

Educationists, school administrators and stakeholders in the education sector who gathered at the 26th annual All Nigeria Confederation of Principals of Secondary Schools, (ANCOPSS) congress have blamed the rise in sundry crimes on the dysfunctional curricular structures in schools.

Eleven Masters Degree students of Food and Nutrition related disciplines have been awarded the Dufil Prima Foods Plc, makers of Indomie’s 2012 MSC Nutrition Scholarship.

Students of the Benue State University College of Health Sciences have apologized to the Vice Chancellor and the Senate of the university over their recent protests.

IT was a dream come true as the Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, convoked no fewer than 5,249 graduates in an impressive ceremony that kicked off penultimate Monday and ended last Saturday, which was witnessed by eminent personalities including 15 Vice-Chancellors.

Primary school completion rates in Africa have been the lowest in the world and this remains a concern as half of the world’s out-of-school-children, OOSC, are concentrated in 15 countries, eight of which are in sub-Saharan Africa. Nigeria has 9 million (37%) OOSC, which is more than one-third of its primary school-age children. This is the highest in Africa.

If there ever was a time to showcase traditional attire, it is in this festive season. And for once, you don’t have to go all out. A touch of ‘trad’ do just fine. A few traditional-ultra-modern trends out in the undergraduate’s fashion diary.