Research and Development (R&D) is no doubt the surest and fastest way for any nation to boost its economy. Experts agree that this is the age of knowledge/intelligence. Knowledge, they say, is power and so for any nation to emerge as a world power, it must have a solid knowledge base. Is it any wonder then that some of the most powerful nations on earth became powerful not because of their abundant natural resources but because of their knowledge base?

The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) has announced six ground-breaking projects from around the world as winners of the 2012 WISE Awards with the theme; Transforming Education.

Perhaps, Nigeria would have joined the likes of Germany, Japan, India and Malaysia as an automobile manufacturer as far back as 1997 when Dr. Ezekiel Izuogu, an electrical/electronics engineer, a doctor of science and lecturer of communications and electronics engineering at the Federal Polytechnic, Owerri, made a prototype of his first ever all-African car which he named Z-600.

Teachers in public primary schools are to embark on indefinite nationwide strike on September 24, if the government fails to pay their 27.5 per cent Teachers Special Allowances (TSA)on or before Monday, September 24, the National President, Nigeria Union of Teachers (NUT), Comrade Michael Alogba Olukoya has said.

The Federal Government has pledged to hand over completed and furnished almajiri and girl-child schools to state governments for onward enrollment by December this year.

Federal Government has entered into technical partnership with the United Kingdom, UK, to borrow expertise on employable skills for school drop-outs across the country.

The Vice-Chancellor, University of Education,Winneba, Ghana, Professor Akwasi Asabere-Ameyaw has disclosed that wrong assessment was one of the reasons why none of the universities on the African continent could make the recent 500 ranking in the world.

Worried by the dearth of textbooks in the country’s tertiary institutions, the Professor Green Nwankwo Foundation has donated 8,000 books to 200 institutions and state libraries across the nation.

As the 2015 deadline set by the UN for its over 153 member-countries to attain the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), especially in the area of education draws near, the need for Nigeria to improve its quality of education to be free from vicious poverty has been sued for.

The Chairman, Bi-Courtney Limited, Dr Wale Babalakin (SAN) has called on pro-chancellors to be visionary and committed to the development of education, saying that, “pro-chancellors should be willing to invest huge personal resources into achieving desired goals without expecting any kind of reward.”