In its bid to improve education standard in Nigeria, MTN staff will for 21 days engage secondary schools students on intensive teaching that will be geared towards strengthening reading culture in school children.

Pressed by the need to be under the cover of a strong professional body that fights their cause without fear or favour, Unity School teachers in the country have returned to the Nigerian Union of Teachers, NUT even as the body denied association of any kind with Academic Staff Union of Secondary Schools, ASSUS.

The falling education standard in Nigeria has again been brought to the fore by concerns of stakeholders in the sector who knew what it used to be in the 70s and early 80s.

Students of the University of Ilorin went to the polls last Thursday to elect new leaders to handle its affairs on the 2012/2013 academic session. At the end of the election, Aremu Abdulmalik of the Faculty of Science, emerged as the President.

No fewer that sixty-one students have graduated with first class honours at the 2011/2012 convocation ceremony of Babcock University (BU), Ilisan-Remo, Ogun State, weekend, at the university’s Stadium Complex.

When it comes to education, some parents are very primitive when it comes to choosing what is right for their children. With all the civilization in the world, some parents still prevent their female children from going to school.

It was a gathering of literary icons and intellectual giants at the Obafemi Awolowo University International School (OAUIS), Ile-Ife, as a corps member, Paul Young Akpomuje, two weeks into his compulsory youth service, launched his new book.

All African countries stood still for Oluwaseun Alamu when he emerged best science student in Africa during UNICEF World Science Day 2012 competition.

“We don’t want MAU!” was the theme song of students of the University of Lagos (UNILAG) as they adamantly rejected President Goodluck Jonathan’s decision to rename the institution Moshood Abiola University (MAU).Their stance could not be mistaken. They took to the streets in their thousands to protest what they described as an “unconstitutional move” by the President on Tuesday.

Saddened by the rising spate of exam malpractice perpetrated by students during national examinations conducted by examination bodies such as Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), the West Africa Examination Council (WAEC), the National Business and Technical Education (NABTEC) and the National Examination Council (NECO), the upper chamber of the National Assembly (Senate), last February, banned the existence of special centres otherwise referred to as ‘miracle centres.’