Covenant University, Ota, on Saturday matriculated a total of 2022 students into her undergraduate and postgraduate programmes for the 2014/2015 academic session.

This figure which represented a total of 1,868 undergraduate and 154 post-graduate students, saw the students swear the oath of matriculation at the event witnessed by parents, friends and well wishers.

MultiChoice, Nigeria’s leading pay-TV operator, has returned to Lagos State for the third time since inception of its resource centre project in 2004, to inaugurate 10 additional centres. This brings the total in the state to 18.

In its eighth phase, MultiChoice Resource Centre project has grown from four centres at inception in 2004 to 312 in 29 states in 2014. At inception of the project, Lagos got three centres with an additional five in 2013

For instance, there is no single state university in Nigeria, LASU included, which offers law or medicine and which also has full accreditation. Our future Attorney Generals and Chief Medical Directors are being trained in schools which should have been closed long ago. The reasons are not hard to discover.

WHEN 164 countries, Nigeria inclusive, pledged to achieve Education for All by 2015 at a World Education Forum in Dakar Senegal in 2000, hopes were high that, by 2015, all school-age children would have access to education while adult illiteracy would be a thing of the past. This was because 15 years was such a long time to achieve such a goal.

FORMER Minister of Power and Chief Executive Officer of Geometric Power Limited, Professor Bart Nnaji, yesterday, said the N3billion intervention grant given for research by the federal government to tertiary institutions is too small to encourage research development.