IN 2009, when Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State obtained a whooping $90 million (N13.5 billion) World Bank Education Loan, to fund teaching and learning infrastructure under the State‘s Eko Secondary Education Project, many a Lagosians thought the era where pupils and students across the public schools in the state sit on bare floor, tyres, broken furniture or even windows is now a thing of the past.

NIGERIA is said to have the highest number of out-of-school children in the world according to the United Nations International Children Education Fund (UNICEF) which has been put at 10.5 million children. This number is threatening to increase if nothing is done urgently to arrest the insurgency in the North-East of the country and assist internally displaced school children in various camps across the region to continue their education despite the situation they have found themselves in.

If government fails to recruit and retain the best in the labour market, then how can it achieve the objective of building a Human Resources Management structure that will backstop its vision of a world class public service institution?

IN a bid to redefine the real essence of the University and to recreate the University into a better citadel of learning, the Vice Chancellor of the Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Professor Joseph Ahaneku has called for total transformation of the University system.

ROTRACT Club of Ikoyi District 9110 has pledged to implement a range of projects geared towards improving education and youth empowerment, through vocational skill acquisition. The club’s new president for the 2014/2015 service year, Rotaractor Muyideen Gbadegesin, revealed this while speaking with newsmen recently.