Courses in Business Administration, especially Marketing, provide another example. The NUC had made it mandatory for every university to introduce a course in Entrepreneurship – in order to encourage graduates of Nigerian universities to embrace self-employment. To begin with, the assumption that everybody can be an entrepreneur is not supported by any research. And, the fault in the assumption can be demonstrated by asking: if everybody sets up his business, who will be the employee? Clearly, not everyone is gifted to be an entrepreneur

The second season of The Spelling Bee, a competition targeted at primary school students between ages 8 and 14, which was piloted in Osun state, is being opened up to more States across Nigeria

Against the backdrop of rising unemployment in the country, wife of the Lagos State Governor, Mrs. Abimbola Fashola, Friday, urged corps members of the 2014 National Youth Service Corps Batch ‘B’ to embrace the Skill Acquisition Entrepreneurship Development Programme (SAED), organised by the scheme, noting that it presents opportunity for them to be employers of labour and not job seekers.

The West Africa Examination Council, WAEC has released its May/June 2014 West African Senior School Certificate Examination, WASSCE, results, recording mass failure in Mathematics and English Language.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State last week reduced the tuition fee of the state university, Lagos state University, LASU, to the original N25,000 but it is not yet uhuru for all the concerned parties.