Parents’ Forum of the Osun State University, Osogbo, has appealed to the state governor, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, to immediately reopen the Ikire campus of the institution as ‘a second term gift’ for the affected students.

Since Tuesday, November 1, 2011, when Professor John Oladapo Obafunwa, became the 11th Vice Chancellor of the Lagos State University, LASU, Ojo, it has been an unending face-off between him and the institution’s staff unions comprising of the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU; Senior Staff Association of Universities, SSANU; Non Academic Staff Union of Universities, NASU; National Association of Academic Technicians, NAAT, as well as the students.

ABOUT two months after schools re-opened behind schedule due to the Ebola Virus Disease, EVD, it seems that the instituted regulations and hygiene policies have been abandoned by staff, students and management of some public and private schools.

Thirty-year-old first class graduate of Economics from the Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Moses Murtala Aminu was shot dead by a constable with the Nigeria Police. Moses had on Sunday, left his No. 67 Ahmadu Ahidjo Street, Narayi High Cost family residence for a party in Barnawa, Kaduna State.

FORMER Minister of State for Education, Prof. Jerry Agada has identified intra and inter-schools debate competition, as one of the best ways of improving the dwindling reading culture among students in the country.