Federal and state tertiary institutions have been urged to come up with proper documentation to access the over N100 billion Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND, lying fallow.

Vice-Chancellor of Federal University of Technology (FUT) Minna, Niger State, Professor Musbau Adewumi Akanji had an interactive session with journalists in Minna as part of activities to mark the 21st, 22nd and 23rd convocation ceremonies of the institution recently

Covenant University, Ota, has churned out 82 first class graduates 35 PhD holders during her 9th convocation ceremony. There were a total of 1,334 graduands with 82 bagging first class honours; 594 had second class honours (Upper Division); 531 with second class honours (Lower division) and 127 obtaining third class honours.

Of all the disciplines, none had been as badly treated as the Faculty of Law in most universities. As a matter of fact, it might not be far-fetched to call what many universities call their Law Faculty as a 419 joint. Each time I sneak into a university purporting to teach law, one of the places I must visit is the Law Faculty. There, I would proceed to read the names on the office doors of the Faculty members – as well as note how many there are.

Last Wednesday, the education sector got its 18th Education Minister from June 1999.
After over 10 months without a substantive education minister, Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau eventually assumed office as the Minister of Education. It would be recalled that Professor Ruqqayattu Rufai bowed out of office as the Minister of Education in September 2013.