HOWEVER, before the shooting (verbal or guns) starts in earnest, it is necessary for all of us to get familiar with some facts which will not suddenly change and which might guide us when making collective and individual decisions on this matter. These might be called the Iron Laws of our economic (read FOOD) life in Nigeria today. Any rash step and we topple into the abyss – the end of which nobody knows.

TO narrow the communication gap between the community private school pupils and others in the state through increased reading and writing in English Language, a non-governmental organisation, Emo-Eferotu Foundation, organised a programme in Abraka, Delta State, aimed at re-educating English Language teachers on how to improve their teaching abilities of the language as it relates to primary school pupils.

Some parents and guardians in Plateau have described as “very exorbitant’’, the N1, 500 they were being charged by JAMB for scratch card to access the examination result.

One of the leading educational advisory organizations in Nigeria, the United Kingdom Education Advisory Service (UKEAS) is set to bring representatives from over 50 UK Universities and colleges to Nigeria and Ghana for an International Education fair this April and May.

A RECENT report of the last West African Se-nior School Certificate, WASSCE, showed a decline in students’ performance in English Language and General Mathematics but an improvement in the performance of candidates in Arabic, Igbo, Islamic Studies, and CRK.