Once upon a time, a citizen was arrested by one of the Barons and shut up in a dungeon. He stayed in the dark dungeon for 20 years. Each day, the jailer would come into the cell to give him a pitcher of water and a loaf of bread and immediately afterwards, the door was closed again. Well, after 20 years, the prisoner had reached his threshold limit and he decided he wasn’t going to continue living in that condition any longer so he planned that rather than committing suicide, he was going to assault the jailer who would then kill him in self-defence.

The Standing Committee inaugurated by the Lagos State Government on the harmonization of Schools’ Calendar, examinations and curriculum has submitted its recommendations.

Even the brightest minds in the country would never have guessed that 50% of the academic calendar of Nigerian universities would be lost in 2013. Research and investigations would not have been able to reveal beforehand the loss of lives in Northern schools, the results of the West Africa Senior School Certificate Examinations, the abysmal performance of students in the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations or the limited admission spaces akin to the passage of a donkey through the eye of a needle.

From Botswana in South Africa, to Ghana in West Africa; From Cameroon in the Central Africa to Tanzania, came more than 200 African youths from 23 African Universities to Nigeria for the Pan African Universities Debate Championship (PAUDC) 2013, hosted by University of Calabar (Unical). Emmanuel Shebbs (Unical), reports.

University of Ghent is offering doctoral scholarships in Belgium. Scholarships are awarded to PhD students from developing countries who wish to carry out their PhD research at Ghent University.