The continued withholding of the results of the 2010 May/June Senior Secondary School Certificate Examination in Bayelsa State by WAEC may scuttle the high education aspiration of the affected students in the state.

President Goodluck Jonathan through the Minister of Education has in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State capital flagged off the training of over 140,000 teachers nationwide in line with the federal government 2010 Millennium Development Goal declaring that the country’s crusade against poverty reduction will continue to be a mirage if it fails to invest in the educational sector.

About One Hundred and Twenty (120) participants were awarded certificates and prizes as the 2010 Summer School Programme of Caleb International College, Magodo, Lagos, came to an end on Friday September 3, 2010 with lots of fun, exhibition and award presentation.

Crawford Univer-sity, Faith City, Igbesa, Ogun State, inaugurated a reconstituted Board of Trustees (BOT) as the term of the pioneering board which came into existence in 2005 when the institution was licensed by the Federal Government has expired.

Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko played host to accreditation teams of the National Universities Commission NUC between Monday, August 30 and Saturday, September 4, 2010. Made up of 6 Teams, the NUC delegation was warmly received by the Management led by the Vice-Chancellor of the University, Prof. Femi Mimko.

Leading Information and Communications Technology Company, Computer Warehouse Group recently played hosts to graduating Computer Science Students from the University of Ibadan. The students were on a tour of the Company’s infrastructure as a preparatory step before they get absorbed into the corporate industry.

Tertiary education may collapse at anytime from now in Lagos State as the academic and non-academic unions in all the institutions of higher learning have declared trade dispute over non-implementation of negotiated agreements reached with government.

These graduates are found to be deficient in several area of professional practice leading to huge criticisms by employers of labour who had to spend a huge budget to retrain these graduates.

Rapid economic growth and its sustainability as well as the empowerment of the citizenry, which are indices of national development, have continued to elude Nigeria because of the lip service being paid to science and technology.

A number of equipment such as 30 KVA generating set, inverters, a Toyota Hiace minibus, digital cameras, field equipment among other facilities, valued at N50 million, which were recently donated to the Geology Department of Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria by Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Ltd, a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, have been commissioned.
The assistance was made under the company’s Universities Partnering Programme.