Some interesting revelations on how the University of Benin was administered under the Vice Chancellorship of Prof. Emmanuel Nwanze have emerged from the report of the visitation panel to the institution that was recently submitted to the Federal Ministry of Education.

Top officials of state Ministries of Education, Educational Resource Centres and State Universal Basic Education Boards who are in charge of policy making have been exposed to a training in modern research techniques where they were told of the need to base decisions and implementation of policies and programmes on research findings.

Value education should be a curriculum content in the primary, secondary and tertiary institutions. This is the submission of Professor Fasan Clement, Faculty of Education, Lagos State University, (LASU), Ojo, at the 30th Distinguished Lecture Series of Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Otto/Ijanikin, Lagos.

Children who will emerge 2010 winners of the Indomie Independent Day Award for Heroes of Nigeria will smile home with mouth watering scholarship awards by Dufil Prima Foods Plc, sponsors of the programme.

Six universities from across the country have been given a total sum of N24 million financial support by Esso Exploration and Production Nigeria Limited (EEPNL) as its University Partnering Programme (UPP) enters the third year.

The University of Jos has installed digital broadcast equipment worth millions of naira for the take off of its training broadcast station.

Katya Samuel Anyagafu was born twelve years ago in Lagos. She has a great interest in the Arts and models on part time basis. She also likes reading and listening to music. The flute Dancer is her first novel.

The event, which was organised by the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council was attended by the Minister of Education, Prof. (Mrs) Ruqayyatu Rufa’i (OON), the ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Prof. Oladapo Afolabi, the Chief Executive Officer of the Nigerian Arabic Language Village, Prof. Tijanni Miskail and his counterpart at the Nigeria French Language Village, Prof. S.O. Aje.

Mass failure recorded in public examinations such as NECO and WAEC should not be seen as something strange but the outcome of various efforts by civil society to check the scourge of examination malpractices ravaging our educational system.

Covenant University, Ota, has commenced the full implementation of the agreement between the Federal Government of Nigeria and Academic Staff Union of Universities on Consolidated University Academic Salary Structure (CONUASS) and stimulus package.