As the Federal Government and the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) have refused to end the 60-day-old strike, students in public Nigerian universities have taken matters into their hands by engaging in various activities to keep themselves busy.

While nine million Almajiri (Itinerant Qu’ranic School Pupils) of Nigerian out-of-school children are presently receiving attention of the Federal Government, the Universal Basic Education Commission, UBEC, has reiterated its commitment to implement boy-child out-of school education in the South-East and South-South states of Nigeria.

The Director, PLEDGE51, a Lagos indigenous Mobile Development Company, Engr. Bayo Puddicombe has stressed the need to inculcate Robotics (Education), an aspect of technology that focuses on the design, construction, operation, and application of robots into Nigerian school curriculum.

Saddened by the fact that recent researches have proven that more unsuspecting teenagers make up a bulky percentage of the about 500,000 reported cases of HIV/AIDS in Nigeria, coupled with the widespread of other sexually transmitted diseases, counsellors who spoke to Vanguard Learning said that this menace should be blamed on parents who shy away from imparting sexuality education in their young wards.

As students device various means of promoting examination malpractice, one of the foremost educationists in Nigeria and board member of Thames Valley College, Shagamu, Ogun State, Mr. Tunde Kolade has called for trial and conviction of people who violate the law on examination malpractices.