In a bid to guide Nigerian students in making right career choices, the Nigerian Institute of Management (NIM) Lagos Chapter held its 2012 Annual Career Talk at Government Senior College Osborne, Ikoyi, Lagos last week Wednesday.

A few years ago, if your school uniform looked anything like the pleated skirt, you wanted it to be as short as possible, as straight as possible, and you also wanted to wear your uniform for as short a time as possible. Times have changed however, as the fashion item we once thought belonged to the mary amakas and sister spiros now wave the fashion flag across the waists of thousands of fashion gurus in Quadlife-style parlance. Stop pretending like you don’t want to join the band wagon; learn how to wear the pleated skirt just right.

Chief Moshood Abiola’s June 12, 1993 presidential victory came alive recently at the 4th convocation of the Crescent University Abeokuta, Ogun State, where the trio of the Awujale of Ijebu Land, Oba Sikiru Kayode Adetona; Governors Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (Kano) and Ibrahim Shehu Shema of Katsina states were showered with honourary doctorate degrees. A total of 115 graduates including three in the first class category, were turned out.

As part of the activities marking the 3rd Annual Lecture of the National Association of Women Academics (NAWACS), BellsTech University chapter, students of the university have been called upon to be apostles and evangelists of the nation’s Transformation Agenda because as youths, they stand to benefit more than any other segment of the society, now and in the future. They need to ‘do the right thing to transform Nigeria’ into a secured and egalitarian society of our dream. These were the summations of Ogun State Director of National Orientation Agency, Mr. Emmanuel Olusola Babalola.

As part of its effort towards contributing to nation building and transformation, the Christian Law Student’s Fellowship of Nigeria (CLASFON), held its 21st annual conference, themed; The Christian Lawyer: God’s Agent of National Transformation, at its University of Benin (UNIBEN) chapter.

THE United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization, UNESCO, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Nigeria in regards to establishing the international institute of Biotechnology at the University of Nigeria.

The Management of University of Calabar (UNICAL) has held a one day seminar on Information Communication Technology (ICT) for the registered students of the university. The reason for the seminar was to teach the students how to freely access the internet facilities provided on campus.

Adding to the already weighty box of achievements, Lumen Christi High School, Uromi, Edo State has again been decorated at the Hallmarks of Labour Foundation Young Achievers Award 2012.

It was Dr. Alex Marvel, a clinical psychologist who said that when you start looking for solutions to your problems in others, you will not find them because they are within yourself. This holds true for Africa, the answer to the continent’s myriad problems lies in the hands of her citizens.

A Nigerian female scientist is among five women expected to receive the 2013 15th L’Oreal-UNESCO for Women In Science (WIN) awards. The five women scientists, according to a release by the organisers of the awards were chosen for their researches which demonstrated “exceptionally original approaches to fundamental research in the Physical Sciences, from contributing to better understanding of climate change, to advancing research on neurodegenerative diseases and potentially uncovering new energy sources.”