PRESSURE has been mounting on the federal government to put an end to the 3-month old strike by lecturers which has completely paralysed academic activities in all public universities in the country.

Proprietor, Bestwill Nursery and Primary School, Bucknor Estate, Ejigbo, Pastor Falana Joseph has called on parents to hand down a good legacy to their children as education is the best amongst other inheritances parents can give to their children. He gave this advice recently while delivering a speech at the graduating ceremony of the pupils which took place at the school premises.

THE Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), gave insight into how corruption in the nation’s educational sector had weakened the sector, leading to low efficiency, wastage and misappropriation of resources, low quality service delivery.

The reports on Federal Government (FGN) Staff Unions of Federal Polytechnics (ASUP, SSANIP and NASU) 2001 Renegotiation and also the three unions of the Federal Colleges of Education have been submitted by the chairmen of the FGN Teams to the Minister of Education, Dr. Sam Ominiyi Egwu.

A quintessentially brilliant, modest, committed, dedicated, enterprising and accomplished legal practitioner, Chief Gani Fawehinmi (SAN) who died last Saturday after a grim battle with lung cancer, meant different things to different people.

The on-going efforts of Lagos State government towards the provision of qualitative and functional education at all levels received a big boost on Wednesday last week when a large number of stakeholders gathered at the exquisite Banquet Hall of Eko Hotel and Suites for the purpose of moving the education sector forward.

An ISO certified education firm, KarRox, is offering scholarship to about 20,000 Nigerian students who applied for its annual IT Empowerment Scholarship programme. The organisation is investing N160 million into the scholarship scheme as a way of widening access to quality computer education.

The President, Home Edutainment group, Uzondu Peace, has called on primary and secondary school students who have flair for science subjects to rise up to the challenges of acquiring basic knowledge and methods of passing it with ease.

Lincoln University, California, United States of America and SKB, MBA Executive Business School, Lagos have held the 2009 graduation ceremony which coincided with the Lincoln University 90th anniversary in Oakland, California.

The President of Nigerian Association of Engineering Craftsmen (NAEC), Malam Yaryar Yakubu has called on Nigerian students, individuals and the Government to imbibe alternative means of electric power supply in homes and in the nation at large via installation of wind energy, solar energy and inverter power systems.

There is no way you are going to have 100 per cent funding from government and have 100 per cent autonomy. And I, as Senator Joy Emordi, I do not support fee paying by our undergraduates.

The 18th African Human Rights Moot Court Competition held recently at the Faculty of Law, University of Lagos, provided a platform for the Minister of Justice, Chief Michael Kaase Aondoakaa and Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola to seek the promotion and protection of human rights as primary purpose of governance.

As the indefinite strike action declared by university lecturers bites harder with thousands of students stranded at home, Prof Ukachukwu Awuzie, National President, Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has revealed that his own children and those of other striking teachers are affected by the closure of Universities.

Pupils and students of primary and secondary schools in Ondo State outclassed their colleagues from other states of the federation in the just concluded 2009 NNPC/Mobil/STAN National Science Quiz/Projects competition, the finals of which held last Saturday at UK Bello Arts Theatre, Minna, Niger State.

For students of affected universities, they probably thought the strike may last for just one or two weeks before the Federal Government will settle with ASUU and the strike called off.