Picking holes in Alausa’s proposal to scrap JSS,SSS education system
Government remains hyper-focused on the “quantity” of out-of-school children while ignoring the “quality” of the education being offered
Using public health education to fight Ebola: Roehampton online student example
The outbreak of Ebola in parts of West Africa saw health officials, hospitals and other industry stakeholders reassessing their levels of preparedness for dealing with public health emergencies. Widespread shortages of doctors, nurses and volunteers possessing requisite knowledge and skills for containing the epidemic was recorded in affected areas, resulting in the spread of the deadly disease from Guinea to Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal, Nigeria and outside the shores of Africa.
Red Cross donates furniture to schools
Nigeria Red Cross Society, Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Division, Ogun State, has donated 200 chairs and lockers worth millions of naira to Ansar-Ud Deen Practising School, Ota and Local Government School III, Sango-Ota in Ogun state.
LOGISS shines at National Assembly school awards
At the recent Strategic School Management and Outstanding Private Schools Merit Awards, organised by the House of Representatives Committee on Education in conjunction with Family Affairs Consultancy Limited, Logos International Secondary School, LOGISS, a mission school in Awo-Omamma, Imo State, stood out among the other honorees selected from among the countless private schools scattered across Nigeria.
Research/Innovation surest way to grow economy — Prof Onwualu
NIGERIA’S major problem: While serving as the Director-General of RMRDC, I was also the chairman of the Committee of Directors of all research institutes in Nigeria which enabled me to work and interact with the chief executives of all the research institutes within the Nigerian innovation system. “Over the years, I have been involved in quite a number of research programmes and these have resulted in a number of very useful technologies. At inception, there was a lot of emphasis on agriculture and solid minerals in Nigeria, but with the discovery of oil, the country moved away from those natural resources to crude oil and we have seen the price of oil going down.
GTBank’s Training Academy gets CIBN accreditation
In recognition of the quality of the entry level programme which takes fresh graduates through an intensive four-month pre-career course, the Guaranty Trust Bank Training Academy for pre-entry level staff has been accredited by the Governing Council of the Chartered Institute of Bankers of Nigeria (CIBN) as a School of Banking Excellence.
