Worried by the gap in Africa’s educational system, Nigerian entrepreneur, Gossy Ukanwoke, is set to launch Beni American University, an online university specifically for African students.

Ahead of the March 24th Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations (UTME), expectations are high from the over 1.5 million registered candidates who are set to battle for 500,000 admission spaces into institutions of higher learning.

Nigeria would have given the automotive industry a product to cheer about a few years ago through Mr. Lawrence Nzenagu, an artist, researcher and inventor, were it not for the lack of support from the relevant authorities. In this chat with Vanguard in Lagos, Nzenagu talks about two of his inventions, amongst others

Stakeholders in education sector have reacted to a call by the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar during a public presentation of the book “Ile-Ife: The source of yoruba civilization,” that History should be made a compulsory subject like English Language and Mathematics in our primary and junior secondary schools.

Deeply concerned about the alarming incidence of the deadly virus, HIV/AIDS among the people in the society, the Nigerian Red Cross Society (NRCS) Auchipoly Chapter has organized a campaign to educate female students at the Federal Polytechnic Auchi, Edo State on the need to protect themselves against contracting the virus.

It was a remarkable day in the lives of graduating students of the University of Calabar (UNICAL), as the institution recently held its 26th convocation ceremony.

In its bid to create and harness opportunities for capacity development of students of tertiary institutions, the Centre for International Education (CIE) of the University of Ilorin, recently, organized a lecture which borders on “Nigeria-Israel Relations for Tertiary Education’’.

No fewer than nine thousand junior secondary school students last week received lectures at their various schools on Human Immuno Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) from Aminat Alli-Agboola, a person living with HIV/AID(PLWHA).

There is no doubt that the industrial and economic development of any nation can only be achieved through hard work, dedication and sacrifice of the citizenry who can harness the abundant material and human resources for nation building.

The Chairman, Literamed Publications Limited, Otunba Yinka Lawal-Solarin, has criticized the government for an acute shortage of locally produced textbooks especially at the tertiary and professional levels which have led to the eroding of reading culture in our country.