The following error has been found in last week’s publication of this column

Dr Tony Marinho has stated that a school without a library is not a school and a home without one form of library or the other is not a home.

Professor Christopher I. Chalokwu is the Vice President for Academic Affairs and professor of geochemistry and physical science at Saint Xavier University,
Chicago, United States (US). He was the Vice Chancellor of the University of Tennessee, US and presently a co-founder of Three Rivers Academic Consulting and Assessment Group in Africa as well as President/CEO of Medical Assay Laboratory, Chicago, US. During a recent visit to Nigeria, he bared his mind on the education sector just as he said it is unfortunate that Nigeria cannot produce one university that ranks among the top 30 universities in Africa. He also told the story of how he rose to become the first full tenured black professor of a US university.

Two days after a marathon 13-hour closed door meeting between President Goodluck Jonathan and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Vanguard Learning has gathered that there are hopes of optimism for students to return to schools soonest, as the union and FG seem to be on the same page.

Barely 48 hours after President Goodluck Jonathan engaged the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, in a marathon 13-hour closed door meeting, in a bid to end the union’s four-month old strike, Vanguard gathered, yesterday, that officials of the Federal Ministry of Education have been directed to commence processes for the re-opening of federal universities.