Almajiri, the boy who begs, is not only being taken off the streets of Katsina State, he also goes to school with monetary incentives, according to the State Commissioner for Education, Professor Aminu Kado Kurfi. Kurfi adds that parents in the state are equally being paid stipends to encourage them to send their girl-child to school. The commissioner, who became a Professor of Business Administration in Bayero University at the age of 44, unfolds the goodies in the education sector courtesy of the Governor Ibrahim Shema administration in Katsina State.

Team Fudio of Covenant University stands the chance to win USD1 million to start up their social enterprise as at this year’s Hult Prize competition if they propose the very best idea to change the world. This year’s competition brought together over 10,000 applicants from 150 different countries with solutions to the global food crisis.

The governing board of the University of Abuja has lamented the present condition of the institution as the council said it is determined to remodel the university to be among the six mega universities in the country.

The British Deputy High Commissioner, Mr. Peter Carter, has said the UK Government is willing to partner the Lagos State Government in building the needed capacity to develop the teaching skills of teachers in the state.

Not quite long ago, the media was awash with how a young entrepreneur, Miss Cynthia Osokogu, a post-graduate student of Nassarawa State University, Lafia was lured all the way from Nassarawa to Lagos State by her Facebook acquaintances, where she eventually ended up being murdered in cold blood.